it's the way mika's discography covers such a wide range of emotions and experiences that it feels like its own person sometimes and it's the way you'll be minding your own business jamming out to we are golden and then out of NOWHERE you'll get hit with the bridge of that song and a lump will rise in your throat because being queer is wonderful and bright and golden but it so often comes with so much pain at the highest moments. it's about "to be clear i'm not a hater and my wife, i like her too, let's be honest with each other, there's some things we always knew" and "all she wants... is another son" and "i try to be like grace kelly but all her looks were too sad so i tried a little freddie, i've gone identity mad" and "blame it on the girls who know what to do, blame it on the boys who keep hitting on you, blame it on your mother for the things she said, blame it on your father but you know he's dead" and "if you could look into the future, would you? if you could see it, would you even want to know? got a feeling that there's bad news coming, but i don't wanna find it out" and "we may be tiny to the world, but in our hearts, we be giants with our tiny, tiny love" and "all this to say that it's okay, no matter what life throws at you, i will always love the blue in you" and "we are not what you think we are, we are golden, we are golden" and "emily, are you stuck-up, are you gay? if you are, well, that's okay, cause it doesn't even matter" and "i was a boy at an open door, why are you staring? do you still think that you know?" and "i know by tomorrow, you'll come back to me, if you're not back tomorrow, what will be will be" and "if we are all in the gutter, doesn't change who we are, cause some of us in the gutter are looking up at the stars" and "emily, why'd you make this hard for me? it's not the way it's meant to be, i don't ever want to hate you" and "get yourself to the butterfly lounge, find yourself a big lady!" and "now i'm sitting alone and i'm looking around, left here on my own, i'm gonna hurt myself, maybe losing my mind, i'm still wondering why, i had to let the world, let it bleed me dry" and "there's a party going on in here, it's been happening for many years, you weren't invited and don't want to stay, but you keep partying anyway" and.