Slayyyter Stans Gaga & The Fame On Interview With Out Magazine

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The bisexual 27-year-old singer-songwriter has been making a name for herself over the past few years as an icon in the Y2K-loving hyperpop scene, but with the release of her latest EP — entitled STAR****ER — she proves she's ready to move into the upper echelon of pop.

Out got the chance to speak to Slayyyter about her new direction, her forver love for Y2K, the influence queer club music has had on her, and taking her look and sound to the next level.

Q: 

I've watched interviews you've done before and you've talked extensively about your love for club music, especially queer club music, and how instrumental it was to you growing up. SO can you talk about continuing that legacy?

S: Growing up, I didn't have like a lot of friends in middle school. I was kind of weird, and what kept me going through it and what kept me happy and in my own little world was things like discovering like The Fame by Lady Gaga for the first time or getting into MySpace music and hearing Space Cowboy and all this stuff.

I was too young to even go to clubs, but I was digesting all this music off of MySpace that was really inspiring to me.And I feel like I always have loved pop stars and you know, pop stars and queer club spaces kind of go hand-in-hand.I feel like at the beginning of my career, I knew that that was the music I wanted to make.And that's always what's interested me.

So it was kind of natural to make music that I always loved. I always loved Marina and the Diamonds and loved Lady Gaga and loved all that kind of music that's like championed gay stan Twitter.So I feel like it just kind of made sense for me to, you know, kind of emulate like the things that I grew up loving.

 

Q: What do you think it is that people, especially gay people, are attracted to in your music?

 

S: I think in general, pop music offers escapism. I think that when you are queer and you are from like the suburbs are from a small town and you don't really have a huge sense of community and you're not like growing up in New York City, you're not growing up in Los Angeles, it's music and forums and Twitter that give you that kind of escape and that sense of community and friendship and all these things.And I think it's a really powerful thing.

It's funny because I think to the outside world, pop music, people think it's like silly. But I feel like it has so much impact. It's not a joke to say that there are certain Lady Gaga songs that saved my life.

https://www.out.com/gay-music/slayyyter-interview

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Funny how Gaga was described as an "already over gimmick made for teens and gays" every 6 months at the start of her career...

And now she's invited by legends for collaborations / loved by the GP, even its older part / frequently cited as an influence by new stars, 15 years in her career.