Hayfitz Celebrates ‘The Most Sensational Queer Songwriters’ In ‘The Sound Of Pride’ (Exclusive)

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It’s Pride Month! Throughout June, HollywoodLife is celebrating with The Sound Of Pride, wherever celebs and stars of the LBGTQ+ assemblage prime songs for the eventual 2023 Pride Month playlist. It’s the cleanable soundtrack to readying your Pride party, researching how to support LGBTQ+ rights, oregon speechmaking astir the history of Pride Month. On the heels of his caller song, “Delusional,” Hayfirtz adds immoderate multifaceted tracks to the playlist.

Hayfitz (Sam Cope)

“I lone publically came retired 2 years ago, and present with each passing year, I consciousness eons further on successful the travel than I did the twelvemonth before,” Hayfitz tells HollywoodLife when making his selections for The Sound of Pride. Hayfitz channeled the archetypal section of this idiosyncratic travel successful “Delusional,” a caller single/visual that arrived conscionable earlier Pride Month. From his upcoming medium (Everything Else), “Delusional” details the maturation of his narration with collaborator-turned-best person Sam Cope and shows however coming to presumption with one’s intersexual individuality tin sometimes beryllium confusing and revelatory astatine the aforesaid time.

“I deliberation I’m perpetually connected a ngo to find queer emotion songs that tin assistance demystify the full experience, and erstwhile I do, they chopped truthful deep,” Hayfitz tells HL. His music, which helium describes arsenic “gentle folk,” weaves unneurotic elements of imagination pop, indie, and folk, offering a brushed and lukewarm spot for radical to laic their heads portion they listen.

Since Pride Month celebrates emotion and life, Hayfitz’s picks are cleanable for The Sound Of Pride.

Searows, “Sleeping With the Lights On”

Adrianne Lenker, “Not A Lot, Just Forever”

Indigo Sparke, “Everything Everything” 

Perfume Genius, “Jason”

Hayfitz, “Delusional”

Editor’s Note: we’ve besides included “Delusional” successful the playlist.

“Over the past fewer years, I’ve travel crossed immoderate of the astir sensational queer songwriters and these 4 are conscionable the extremity of the iceberg,” says Hayfitz. “I deliberation I’m perpetually connected a ngo to find queer emotion songs that tin assistance demystify the full experience, and erstwhile I d,o they chopped truthful deep. I’m truthful grateful to beryllium successful a clip successful the satellite wherever LGBTQUIA+ artists are starting to yet beryllium astatine the forefront of the arts and this, I’m positive, is going to person a monolithic interaction connected the caller queer younker successful the years to come.”

HL: How does this year’s solemnisation consciousness erstwhile compared to past year’s?  

Hayfitz: I lone publically came retired 2 years ago, and present with each passing year, I consciousness eons further on successful the travel than I did the twelvemonth before. I deliberation for the archetypal Pride, I was conscionable blessed to witnesser the assemblage from a distance, and present I’m starting to consciousness arsenic though I’m participating successful a meaningful and assured way. It’s truthful liberating to find your footing arsenic a queer idiosyncratic and look astir astatine each the beauteous chap queer humans that you’ve brought into your beingness due to the fact that of it.

Pride is simply a clip to observe unsung heroes. Is determination anyone you’d similar to spot get immoderate much of the spotlight this year?  

Growing up, determination was hardly immoderate practice successful the media (especially TV and movies) for bi-sexual and pan-sexual people. When determination was, it was treated arsenic this immense ordeal that was wholly retired of the ordinary. This created specified a taboo for myself and I deliberation truthful galore others due to the fact that we had nary reflector to look into. Now that this is yet changing, I would emotion to spot adjacent much absorption connected this radical and besides would emotion to spot much emotion stories that absorption connected the humans themselves alternatively of the information that they are bisexual, gay, etc. Pansexuality is each astir loving idiosyncratic for who they are, not what their sex oregon biologic constitution is and it would beryllium truthful astonishing to get past this constituent wherever determination are ‘gay movies’ vs. each the different movies alternatively of conscionable normalizing LGBTQUIA+ emotion and stories.

Do you person a representation of Pride Months past that you’d similar to share? Or a infinitesimal of Pride erstwhile you felt triumph and/or acceptance?  

In the summertime of 2021, I played a location performance astatine the location wherever I grew up playing music. My friend’s parents were much than blessed to big the amusement and invitation each their friends. My friend’s ma was really the politician of our municipality astatine the time. The information that I could play my set, successful which I explicitly sang astir my sexuality aggregate times and was capable to speech astir it openly, was caput and bosom expanding successful each way. I had 1 of my mentors from precocious schoolhouse determination who is cheery and brought his partner, 1 of my archetypal bosses was determination with her wife, and, of course, my ma was determination with friends arsenic well. These benignant of full-circle moments are truthful uncommon and precious, and I’ll ne'er hide it.

What bash you person planned for June (and the remainder of 2023?)  

I person a caller azygous and Super 8mm video for a opus called ‘What’s Wrong’ coming retired astatine the extremity of this period that I wrote astir coming retired to my mom. My mom, Lorrie, is featured successful the existent video, and it’s thing I’ll cherish for the remainder of my life. After that, I’ll person a fewer much singles coming from my sophomore album, Everything Else, which volition beryllium released connected October 6th, 2023, which is really my mom’s day week :)

Do you person a Pride 2023 connection to stock with the HollywoodLife audience?  

I deliberation I would conscionable accidental that being a queer person, particularly erstwhile starting aboriginal successful life, is an endless travel of twists and turns. The 2nd you consciousness arsenic if you’ve figured it out, you’re again blindsided by a full caller slew of individuality crises. I would promote anyone who is speechmaking this that is caller to being queer oregon adjacent questioning to beryllium diligent and forgiving to yourself and retrieve that it’s perfectly acceptable and adjacent expected to alteration your position connected astir everything astatine immoderate fixed moment. The champion portion astir each of that though is that determination is simply a beauteous ever-blossoming assemblage to enactment and emotion you and endless amounts of caller creation coming into the satellite to assistance consciousness little unsocial successful this madness.

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