Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears Opens Up About Making Queer Music

Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears recently released a new album, and he revealed how the iconic singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue helped shape the Last Man Dancing.

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The two musicians previously worked together for Minogue’s 2004 single “I Believe in You,” as well as her 2010 album Aphrodite. Thereafter, they made a song titled “Voices” for a 2018 reunion, however, Shears said that “there was nowhere for it to go.”

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“I was making a southern, Honky-tonk record (his eponymous debut album), she’d been doing Golden. So there wasn’t really a space for it,” he explained during an exclusive interview with PinkNews.

A couple of years later, his collaboration with Minogue helped shape his latest album Last Man Dancing, as Shears “started building around it. That was the impetus.” Moreover, the 44-year-old musician is the frontman of the pop-rock band Scissor Sisters.

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He gained fame in the early 2000s, and the band is now described as “queer change-makers.” In the same interview, Shears, who is openly gay, opened up about making queer music, stating:

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“I don’t think or care about infusing queerness into my music. I think it’s just automatically going to be there.”

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He further shared his sentiments on queer artists with big platforms, expressing:

“I feel for queer artists with massive platforms right now and all they have to face. I don’t think I would ever want to be in that position again, in the world we’re in now. It would suck. Everybody’s got a bullhorn. It’s horrific. It’s just not as much fun these days.”

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Shears’ Last Man Dancing is described as “disco with flecks of pop,” and it is out now!


Source: thepinknews.com

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