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Inside Sir Babygirl's Neon World Of Offbeat Pop And Devoted Fans


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Positivity     50.00%   
   Negativity   50.00%
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SOURCE: http://www.mtv.com/news/3112808/sir-babygirl-crush-on-me-feature/
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It starts with memes: Her Instagram is a mood board of early 2000s nostalgia and bisexuality – a grinning Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove joking about period blood, Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde reading a textbook labeled “Flirting W/ Girls: 101.” “I was like, I’m going to get a following that way, and then it will cross over to my music,” she says. These identities are centered in her songs, but they’re not the only appeal.“I’m not a better artist because I’m queer, and it’s not worthwhile music because it’s queer,” she says. “No. I wrote it because I got fired from my fucking spy-themed restaurant job.”When Sir Babygirl talks about her production style, she talks about songs that “sound like ballerinas fucking.” When she talks about bi visibility, she clears her throat and throws her voice a pitch lower – “I want to be one of many bi artists, not like, hem hem, hello, I’m THE bi.” And when she talks about her burgeoning success, she knows this isn’t supposed to happen – to have a cross-country tour before you put you first album out, to find the perfect production partner by posting a call for non-cis engineers on Facebook. Her A&R; rep at Father/Daughter discovered her after one of his coworkers at a smaller label in Florida played “Heels” out loud in her office, curious after following Sir Babygirl’s memes.“Nothing I’ve gotten has been off a daddy connection,” she says. If I want pop-star hair or pop-star makeup, I have to do it myself,” she says. But we’re going to keep moving.” For all its sparkling synths and buzzy beats, Sir Babygirl’s music is flecked with pain.

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