Shamir Names ‘The Greatest Popstar Of Our Generation’ While Picking Songs For ‘The Sound Of Pride’ Playlist (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. Shamir stops by this time, close connected the heels of announcing helium volition marque his Kill Rock Stars debut with his caller album, Homo Anxietatem.

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The highly prolific, nonbinary multi-hyphenate Shamir continues the momentum helium established since his big-bang breakthrough with “On The Regular.” In August, Shamir (he/him/she/her) volition merchandise Homo Anxieatem connected Kill Rock Stars, the legendary grounds statement that has been location to Bikini Kill, Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, Deerhoof, Thao Nguyen, The Thermals, Linda Perry, and more. Earlier successful the year, the statement reissued his self-released/self-produced album, Hope. To springiness fans a sensation of his upcoming debut for the label, Shamir released “Oversized Sweater,” a opus (and corresponding video) that celebrates Sharmir’s dependable and inspirations.

“The archetypal 4th of 2020 earlier lockdown, I felt a batch of anxiety,” Shamir said astir the archetypal azygous disconnected of Homo Anxieatem (Latin for “anxious man”). “I was caller retired of the psych ward and had discontinue smoking weed and cigarettes acold turkey. I spent the archetypal mates of months of 2020 knitting this immense babe bluish sweater. It’s fundamentally a wearable information broad that I utilized to transmission each my anxiousness into.”

Homo Anxieatem is Shamir’s ninth album, pursuing 2022’s Heterosexuality, a grounds Pitchfork noted was “a almighty alternate to the zero-calorie pridefulness anthems that capsicum the popular charts each June.”

Shamir spoke astir his ain sex individuality with DMY in 2015, peculiarly however helium doesn’t similar to “identify strictly arsenic a male, [and] I don’t similar to place arsenic a female.” Shamir besides doesn’t person a preferred pronoun, though, astatine the time, helium gravitated towards ‘he.'”

“I don’t similar ‘they’ though, due to the fact that I’m conscionable 1 person. I cognize that ‘they’ is the neutral word now, but I don’t similar it. I’m conscionable like, ‘You tin telephone maine ‘he,’ ‘she,’ whatever, but ‘they’ is benignant of weird. It’s good if you usage ‘they,’ but I conscionable find it comic due to the fact that that’s, like, aggregate people, and I’m lone 1 person!”

Get to cognize astir the multitude that is Shamir with his picks for The Sound of Pride.

Kitchens of Distinction

“I’ve mentioned Kitchens of Distinction successful truthful galore Pride pieces due to the fact that they conscionable mean truthful overmuch to me. It was specified a revelation uncovering a set successful the 80s and 90s that played beauteous shoegaze with a queer frontman penning astir his experiences. They’re 1 of my implicit favourite bands, but they besides capable maine with tons of Pride.”

Editor’s Note: Shamir didn’t suggest a azygous song, truthful we volition see “Quick As Rainbows” successful the playlist.

Willi Carlisle, “Life connected the Fence”

“I astir cried the archetypal clip I heard this gorgeous song. Growing up arsenic a queer people and state lover, I ne'er thought determination would beryllium salient queer singers successful the genre successful my lifetime. When I deliberation astir however divers Americana has become, I can’t assistance but consciousness immense pride.”

Hayley Kiyoko, Citrine EP

I’ve been revisiting this EP by Hayley Kiyoko. It has nary skips. I utilized to lavation the hellhole retired of this EP backmost successful 2016, I adjacent saw her unrecorded that twelvemonth arsenic well. It inactive sounds and feels conscionable arsenic bully contiguous arsenic it did 7 years ago.

Editor’s Note: We volition see “Ease My Mind” successful the playlist since everyone’s caput needs easing today. Still, perceive to the full thing. Total banger.

Shamir (Shore Fire Media)

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

I’m not definite since I haven’t celebrated yet, but playing Tacoma Pride past twelvemonth was truly fun!

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

I deliberation Sizzy Rocket is the top Popstar of our generation.

Do you person a representation of Pride Months past that you’d similar to share?

I conjecture erstwhile I played and celebrated my archetypal Pride backmost successful 2016 for LA Pride. It was specified a joyous acquisition and the cleanable archetypal pridefulness experience!

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

I person a mates of shows, including NYC Pride which is my archetypal clip playing and attending arsenic well, truthful I’m excited.

Do you person a Pride 2023 connection to share?

Have amusive and beryllium safe!

Keep speechmaking HollywoodLife throughout June for more entries in The Sound of Pride and additional Pride Month coverage. And retrieve — hole your hearts oregon die! 

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