Fletcher continues to be coming to phrases with being labelled a queer icon.
But with a viral attain on TikTok, critically acclaimed debut album and steamy collaboration with Miley Cyrus, the American singer has swiftly turn out to be the queen bee of the LGBTQIA+ social media-savvy era.
The buzz kicked off in 2019 when Fletcher’s single Undrunk turned the fastest-rising pop music on radio from a brand new artist up to now 5 years, then went into overdrive with the discharge of her debut album, Girl of My Dreams, final yr.
The 29-year-old’s uncooked depiction of same-sex love and heartbreak struck a chord with listeners, who shaped a devoted world fandom within the tens of millions.
Yet Fletcher admits she grapples with impostor syndrome when confronted together with her idol standing.
“I never set out to be a queer icon in any way, I just set out to be myself,” she says.
“And it’s true, there’s nobody like you . . . Maybe I am a queer icon, I don’t know, I will take that title — but I think we all have the ability to be f…… iconic in our own way.”
Growing up in a small, conservative city in New Jersey, Fletcher didn’t have any position fashions to look as much as when questioning her personal sexuality.
“I spent so much of my life hiding and really confused, and terrified of being different from what people expected of me and hoped for me,” she says.
“I have always been a people pleaser, so the idea of letting someone down or challenging somebody’s belief system in any way was something I could not wrap my brain around. I spent a lot of time not wanting to acknowledge that, and because of that I abandoned myself for a very long time.
“I remember the first time I was going to put out a video that had a same-sex love interest and I was getting a lot of feedback from my family and people in my orbit saying ‘don’t do that, you’re going to alienate people’.
“But it was that very video and very message that brought an audience to me, because people saw themselves in some way — and I needed a video like that.”
Fletcher’s honesty has enamoured her to followers, like when she described “creeping” on her ex’s new girlfriend on Instagram in hit single Becky’s So Hot.
Her recognition additional spiked when she joined Miley Cyrus on New Year’s Eve for a charged duet of Midnight Sky, the place the 2 performers “broke the internet” by overtly flirting with each other on stage.
Sold-out reveals have turn out to be the norm for Fletcher, who will proceed her continuous tour run with a string of Australian dates later this yr, together with her Perth debut at Metro City on December 9.
She is pumped to return Down Under after a fast go to to the east coast final yr, which she ready for with the assistance of Aussie good friend and fellow queer singer G Flip.
“G is just the most lighthearted, funny, kind, not-a-bad-bone-in-their-body, happy-all-the-time kind of human,” Fletcher says.
“I was, like, ‘OK, this is exactly what it’s going to be like when I go over there’. Before I went over G was teaching me some Aussie slang, we did a TikTok video of them teaching me some things to say.”
Just maintain the shoeys — after a previous try, Fletcher has fun when she says she gained’t be trying the celebratory drink this time round.
Tickets for the Girl of My Dreams tour are on sale by way of Livenation.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
