When the world needed Lesbian Jesus most, she disappeared. At least, that’s a bit what it felt like for fans of Hayley Kiyoko. After the 2018 release of her debut album, Expectations, a synth-pop explosion of lesbian desire, listeners anxiously awaited her next project. So many were surprised when in January 2020, following the release … Read more
“Girls Like Girls” has been a long time in the making. Originally released as a music video in 2015 by musician Hayley Kiyoko, the tune with the lyrics “Girls like girls, just like boys do” quickly became a sapphic anthem, amassing 163 million views on YouTube to date. “After we released the music video, I … Read more
The adaptation trail of “Girls Like Girls” is an unusual one. In 2015, pop singer Hayley Kiyoko released her hyper-catchy pop song of the same name, bringing a plainly worded statement of lesbian desire — “girls like girls like boys do” — into the viral mainstream, with an accompanying video laying out a compacted five-minute … Read more