Rush...

This feels like summer. I like it when artists put out songs that feel like the season. And this is a song I feel like dancing half naked to on a beach under the sun. Oh yes. it kind of has that sense of freedom, of laissez faire, of not being encumbered by any worries. It's just so much fun, both the song and the video.

Troye is fresh off The Idol (that very controversial HBO miniseries) and he seems to be striking while it's hot and it's coming up with a new album and if this is a taste of it, I'm down. BTW, he's in his late twenties, and he's used that time wisely. Not bad for someone who started as a YouTuber, you know, these Millennials. Their processes are very different.  I think this song is a bop and it can be the song of the summer. I know the gays have already taken over it (for obvious reasons) but it may take over the straights too. It's that much fun.

Troye has -in my opinion- a place in all the parthenon of all those artists that are not really Top Ten radio play but that usually move at a slower place, inserting themselves in little slots in the culture and causing little earthquakes. It's usually girls who do this (Elle King, Sky Ferreira, Tove Lo and my beloved Robin) but this time is one of the gay boys. And I'm here for it. The references to debauchery will not surprise the olden gheyz, but I'm sure the Millennials are dusting off old Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs and rewatching I'm a Slave for You while googling Tom of Finland to talk about it during brunch. Troye is gay and he's not afraid of it. Maybe that's why he's not on the Billboard 100? 

I'm going to let you count the gay references, though. I don't want to spoil the fun. I wish I would have had a song (and video) like this when I was a gayling, though (oh, yes, the vocals, but I'm more for the message cause when I'm dancing, I don't really care if it's Adele or Milli Vanilli). One can always use some visuals as inspo, no? Also, can you explain that banana pipe? I knew you can use an apple. But a banana?? And what is that boy doing with that lighter? I have questions...

XOXO

P.S. hope you got all the references. BTW, Huntley sent me this. I'm still cackling. He's always playing the 'old man in his lawn' routine but he's very with it. Don't let the smooth taste fool you...