Terfs fuck off

Just some music that's either explicitly queer or could be read as such. I'll mostly feature queer artists on here. Submissions welcome!

[queer-songs]

You are the queen of all heartbroken, and you are everything I want

[black-is-beautiful18]

It is both Pride and Black Music Month, so it’s only right to start the month off with the Godmother and founder of Rock ‘N’ Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Born March 20th, 1915 in Cotton Plant , AR, Tharpe was a gospel and secular artist. One of the first to actually do both genres too. She was also a queer woman having a few relationships with women during her lifetime. It is due to her fusion of gospel, delta blues, New Orleanian Jazz, and R&B that we have rock n roll at all. Her chord progressions are so important and imbedded into the genre that without it rock n roll simply wouldn’t exist.

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

is it just me or is the "trans guys are just some boring guys and they make lame music and trans women are cool and interesting and make loud music" jokes almost like. an excuse for why theres not that many trans guys who are popular content creators or musicians or actors or authors or what have you. like blaming the invisibility of trans men on being "boring" and therefore not doing anything rather than oppression.

not to mention the example of music being that people have heard of one singular trans guy who works in a genre they dont like [people really love to act like cavetown is like specifically bad or cringe but thats just what most indie pop/rock/folk sounds like] and theyve heard of a handful of trans women who make hyperpop that they already like [and laura jane grace of course] and its really telling on themselves. theres trans guys making hyperpop and trans women making ""lame ukulele music"" and both of them and nonbinary people making music of tons of other genres. like. cmon. it reminds me of xkcd 385.

also i dont think these jokes are intentionally malicious or anything [most of the time] but it also feels sort of weird to be joking about how boring a group of marginalized people are. im not going to act like its the biggest deal in the world but its sort of low level bullying, innit? and i imagine having this weird expectation to be "cool and interesting" isnt fun for trans women either. its nice to get to be lame sometimes.

Yeah it's super weird, especially because it's repeated over and over, that part is the suspicious part. I even saw it on reddit a few days ago in one of the ftm subs. I do think it's like blaming the lack of trans men artists on trans men being "boring" instead of, you know the bigotry, the erasure, the inequality I think it's also a weird expectation that we all HAVE to live up to what other people think of as "cool" like if we're all not making hardcore metal and being as "SICK" as humanly possible, we are failing at transgender music and therefore are the reason trans men aren't represented as artists enough, which is ummm. okay.

why can't we make soft love songs about being bugs, or whatever. What happens to trans women who don't live up to the metal hardcore aesthetic? Look at Dylan Mulvaney. She made a dumb cutsie girlypop song and everyone acted like she is the founder of misogyny herself. So not only are we ridiculed for the music we make, we're trapped in transphobic expectations of what music we can or should make.

If you expect all trans women to make metal, you'll only see trans women who make metal, if you expect all trans men to make soft music, that's all you'll find! because that's all you looked for! Another thing is like, Oh all trans women music is cool and hardcore rock and roll, but trans men music is dumb and cutsie ukulele music? I wonder what gender those genres are normally associate with? Uhoh we're doing a sexism maybe the person making the joke doesn't have malicious intent, but the joke itself sure does.

[dcmcboxers]

i know some of it must be willful ignorance because the actual musicians are doing collaborations "across the aisle" as it were.

Dorian Electra is somehow a musician that never enters the conversation when it comes to transmasc music despite the fact that they:

make harsh electronic music

have entire albums dedicated to deconstructing machismo and online misogyny

have collaborated with 100 gecs

are extremely inspired by drag

But I get the sense that people aware of them outside of transmasc circles devalue their art as simply memetic, ironic, or absurd. there is an unwillingness to see it as something with purposefully crafted meaning and depth.

hm, wonder why?

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

If you take one thing from this post it's please check out Dorian Electra

[queerpyracy]

discovering the queer country scene has honestly been so healing because most queer musicians i've seen recommended for years i just couldn't really connect with because it wasn't the sort of music i listened to or had investment in and with queer country it's like. yes. this is the language i speak in. this is Fuck You, I Belong Here Too, not just as a queer person in the country but as a rural person among (sub)urban queers, and saying it with a laugh. when will my hometown take pride in me, goddamn it

[beabaseball]

Drop the list!!

[queerpyracy]

FIRST: rachel holst does the adobe & teardrops blog as well as the rainbow rodeo newsletter & zine. look into the black opry also, there are plenty of black queer country/folk/americana artists & there is a lot of collaboration between them and other queer country/folk/americana musicians

my personal list:

adeem the artist (especially the new album, white trash revelry)

paisley fields (stay away from my man is a good old fashioned honky tonk jam about gay on gay violence)

jake blount (the new faith is an afrofuturist album using roots music to explore life after climate collapse, HIGHLY recommend)

sarah shook & the disarmers (especially the album sidelong, ESPECIALLY the songs fuck up & dwight yoakam)

lavender country (everything but especially cryin' these cocksucking tears. patrick haggerty sadly passed in 2022 and we lost a real one. he self-described as a screaming marxist bitch)

flamy grant (okay so. bible belt baby is Technically a christian album that i was tricked into listening to. but listen. what did you drag me into is an instant classic)

mercy bell (especially who said we were friends. i can't hear the lyric "mea culpa/here's a gulpa/my drink in your face" and NOT recommend it)

amythyst kiah (if you haven't heard black myself by now what even are you doing. go listen to it)

do you want to speedrun a depressive episode as a queer woman who fears you may have too much in common with your father? listen to i drink by mary gauthier now

karen & the sorrows (there is a lot to recommend karen pittelman and the work she has done for queer country artists but i'm a useless lesbian so i'm submitting for consideration a photo of the red dress from the mv for guaranteed broken heart that i think about a normal amount:

[queer-songs]

But we loved with a love that was more than love

I and my Annabelle Lee

[queer-songs]

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats

[queer-songs]

Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Where are the monster men you recall?

With their pretty voices and their skin all torn apart

[queer-songs]

By the thaw of spring

My heart will be

Chilled by passion

And warmed by hope

[ciarancreature]

[queer-songs]

She's got a boy in her palm

What a beautiful sight

She's got a boy in her palm

She's got a girl in her sight

[queer-songs]

Oya, Mother of the Dead,

Weaver of the sacred thread,

He was to love me for eternity,

Mother of the Dead

[ciarancreature]

[queer-songs]

Listen/purchase: Needlepoint by Southnorth

[malty-tripe]

I wrote this song at the start of HRT when I had a really tough time getting a needle in my leg, and needed something to help calm me down. Hope you like!

Also give queer-songs a follow, they’re doing awesome shit!

[queer-songs]

Listen/purchase: Needlepoint by Southnorth

[queer-songs]

Nail me to the cross in the darkest alley

I said the Prince of Peace doesn't have to know about it

[queer-songs]

Oh, she looks so good

And oh, she looks so fine

And I got this crazy feeling

That I'm gonna make her mine

[enbies-and-felonies]

we need more gay country music

[gayfeatherfiend]

There’s a bunch actually! A lot of old timey ones too because well… the real history of cowboys is quite queer. (But yes we always need more)

Anyway I’d love to put together my playlist on youtube and share if yall are interested.

[enbies-and-felonies]

listen, you can’t drop in and NOT share your playlist- 

(/lighthearted /not mad by the way)

[gayfeatherfiend]

Here it is! The first few songs are songs I already had on my ipod, the rest are ones I researched so please pardon my playlist if its not aesthetically organized right now. I will continue working on it and adding songs 😊

Every song here is either explicitly ABOUT queer things or explicitly FROM a queer artist. There are of course tons of songs I fancy that I like to canon as being queer (looking at you Dixie Chicks 👀), but if I included those I wouldn’t exactly be showing listeners real Queer History. [so maybe another time I’ll throw the headcanon songs together 😂]

AND THIS LIST IS BY NO MEANS EXHAUSTIVE!.. I think next I want to add some queer mexican folk music and celebrate some of my cultural roots (the legacy of the cowboy would not exist without the vaquero)….

CHEERS! 🍻🤠

Queer Country & Folx Music ;)

[heads up some older songs are very tongue-in-cheek and even a little explicit, in a corny way]

[queer-songs]