Episode 296: Boy Jr.

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Lauren sits down with artist Boy Jr. (they/them) to talk relationships, gender, and their upcoming album "I Love Getting Dumped." Shortly after graduating, Boy Jr. (who describes their gender identity as "a non-binary unknowable entity who lives in your walls") was very interested in getting top surgery and starting testosterone. However, as they began to embark on their music career, they got the distinct sense that their success as an artist "hinged on being as desirable as possible to as large a pool of people as possible." As a result, they put gender on the backburner and leaned heavily into their femme identity. But if there's one thing we know about queerness, it's that you can't suppress it forever! Boy Jr. shares how much more authentic they feel now that they're "making decisions based on comfort instead of...desire to feel desirable." Plus, we discuss their deep foundational love for Joe Jonas, and the etiquette around giving your exes a li'l heads up when you're releasing breakup songs about them.

Follow Boy Jr. on Instagram at @boyjrofficial, on TikTok at @boyjr.69, and on Twitter at @BoyJrMusic. You can also find them as "Boy Jr." on YouTube, Patreon, Fiverr, and alllll the music platforms. Last but not least, check out their Linktree at linktr.ee/boyjr, and look for the release of "I Love Getting Dumped" at the end of October!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to coming out pod.
0:09.9	It has been a minute.
0:11.3	Happy August.
0:12.6	I assume no matter where in the world you live, you are sweating profusely.
0:18.5	Queer root shout out today is thematic because this movie has recently been added to
0:24.0	Netflix, was all over queer Twitter when it finally happened.
0:28.0	Shout out to you if your queer root is either of the two girls as featured in the film,
0:34.4	the incredibly true adventure of two girls in love.
0:38.4	This movie was from 1995 in a true indie movie, back when indie movies were like legit indie. It stars, okay, so the two
0:46.3	girls are Nicole Ari Parker, who went on, I think Soul Food was the big thing that she did. And then the other girl is named Laurel Halloman.
0:57.5	Perhaps you are familiar with her work on the L Word and the Elward Generation Q. Yes, Tina, this was,
1:04.0	she's a very, they're both very young in this movie. This is super formative movie for a lot of people.
1:09.8	Is it a, is it an amazing movie?
1:12.4	I wouldn't go that far, but it is a very important movie to queer culture, one of the first, 95, and now you can watch it on Netflix, which is very cool.
1:20.6	Shout out to you if you are around my age, and this movie was perhaps formative for you.
1:27.8	Y'all, my guest today is an artist known as Boy Jr.
1:33.3	Hello, I'm so excited to have you here. Welcome.
1:36.4	Hello, thank you so much for having me.
1:38.5	Yeah, I'm gonna, okay, so basically, I don't even want to try to describe your genre because I am sure there are words that are much
1:47.8	hipper and cooler than I will come up with, so I'll leave that to you. But what I will say is that
1:53.9	you have an album that is going to be coming out. The probable date is October 23rd. The album title
2:00.5	is phenomenal. It is called I Love Getting Dumped. And there are some singles out from it already that you can listen to. Check out these titles. The titles are, I hope you feel terrible, bullying myself. And by the time this episode is released, Still Be Friends will likely be out to. So I think we're sensing a theme
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