We have such a struggle ahead of us and we have had some successes that make us feel very comfortable, like gay marriage in 2015 in the United States. What would you say are some of the biggest challenges facing the queer community today?
I know you're always very vocal about queer rights in general. You talked about how, in Pride Month, it's about fighting for your rights and protecting the rights we have. I had such a great time getting the video together as well, which looks great, and I can't wait for people to see it. I have a whole list of songs that I'd like to put together. I'm back in the studio with the same songwriters and producers. I'm assuming you do have plans to do more?
I can't wait to hear what else you release. Someone really shouldn't be singing about this - why would it ever deserve a song? - and then making the production quality amazing. With my music, I plan on doing the same thing with this new song and future songs, taking concepts that really shouldn't be songs. It's what I did when I wrote a children's book around Fergie's "National Anthem" performance that was banned in 2018, committing to something that's so silly. I want something to be as good as it can be, but committing to a concept that is so stupid, it doesn't deserve the level of commitment that I'm giving it. It's a very similar approach where I am focused on committing to something as hard as I can - having great details and production quality. What, to you, is the future of music looking like? And how do you approach music and your comedy differently, or do you approach them similarly?
Not to make you feel worse about it, but it looked like a good show.Įverything I've seen looked amazing, for sure next time. That was the show that I saw the clip of. They just performed recently at the Hollywood Bowl and I wanted to go so bad. People want to have fun with their own identities and not take themselves so seriously, and the queer community has really embraced it as a whole. After doing some research and hanging out in some communities, I started to make like, "Why do lesbians love board games? Why do they stay in and play board games?" And they were hits. Like, "Oh, why don't we have one about us? We want one about us." I was thinking, how would I go about making one of these videos if I don't have that experience? You don't want to offend someone, but you want to make sure it's accurate. And then as those started to pick up on TikTok, there were a lot of bi, queer, lesbian interests. I first started out with things from my own experience as a gay man. Would you say a large portion of the viewership is queer people resonating with it and sort of understanding the stereotypes that these are based on? They understood the ridiculousness of it, and so I kept doing it and having fun with it.
And initially it started with the video about iced coffee, not really thinking it would be a series of any sort. I thought I would put them in the context of a video where I made them 100% real with fake science.