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Towa Bird is a new kind of American hero

The British-Filipino musician on making the ultimate sapphic sex song, touring with Reneé Rapp and getting matching tattoos with Deb Never in East Hollywood.  WORDS: ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH HEADER DESIGN: YOSEF PHELAN PHOTOGRAPHY: MIKAYLA LOBASSO LIGHTING: ZACH ARQUILEVICH PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANTS: VIN STRATTON, SIYOON KIM, NELE MOENS   Towa Bird wants to be the lesbian Paul McCartney. On pop rock lead single ‘Drain Me!’, she mixes distorted guitars and pitchy synth-like sounds to pull off a hedonistic head rush anthem about lesbian sex – a song she grimaces at, thinking about how…

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Baby Queen releases existential single We Can Be Anything

Indie-pop artist Baby Queen surprise announced the track yesterday (19 July) in a collaborative post with the Heartstopper Instagram account. Baby Queen (real name Bella Latham) is premiering the new single live on the Heartstopper Instagram page today at 4pm BST. ‘We Can Be Anything’ is the follow-up to her recent single ‘Dream Girl’, which represented a new era for the South African singer and was her biggest streaming launch to date. Both tracks offer a taste of her eagerly awaited forthcoming debut album – details of which are still…

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Baby Queen joined by Netflix’s Heartstopper cast on stage at London show

Singer-songwriter Baby Queen brought the cast of Heartstopper onstage during her performance of Colours of You. Now, you know we’re big fans of the cast of  Heartstopper. In fact, the gang are the latest faces to grace our latest GAY TIMES digital issue. Rising stars Joe Locke, Kit Connor, Corinna Brown and Kizzy Edgell are the young stars appearing in Netflix’s romantic coming-of-age series Heartstopper, which is based on Alice Oseman’s webcomic and graphic novel of the same name. As the show navigates the highs and lows of confronting your…

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GAY TIMES to present The Great Escape’s first-ever LGBTQ+ stage

GAY TIMES will present The Great Escape’s first-ever stage made up solely of openly LGBTQ+ artists at this year’s festival. Rebecca Black, Baby Queen, Claudia Valentina and NOAHFINNCE will all be performing at Club Revenge, Brighton’s most well known queer venue on 13 May. “Music has given us some of our greatest LGBTQ+ icons, which is why GAY TIMES remains committed to supporting the queer superstars of tomorrow,” said Lewis Corner, Editorial Director of GAY TIMES. “As the UK’s best music festival for discovering emerging talent, we are delighted to…

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Exclusive: Baby Queen on 90s-inspired “underdog anthem” Wannabe and debut album

Baby Queen has released the underdog anthem of 2021. Wannabe, which premiered 9 November on BBC Radio 1, is a “super Y2K”-inspired alternative rock bop for “all of the kids that don’t belong somewhere or feel pigeon-holed as something you’re not,” she says. In the pre-chorus, Baby Queen addresses “all the bullies who made fun of my hoodies and used to say I couldn’t sing,” before declaring herself as a “wannabe and a “loser”. She then tells her listeners and fellow underdogs: “If you want to be a wannabe, baby, then set…

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