‘I by no means had song for queer women’

“I simply wanna speak about women.”

Cat Burns could not be clearer about what is on her thoughts in her new monitor.

Known as – you guessed it – Ladies! she says it marks a shift from her extra “severe” information and is her shot at writing song she did not have get admission to to rising up.

“I think like I by no means had a track like that for me,” she says. “Particularly for the entire queer women.”

She says she’s leaning into a brand new generation the place she feels an increasing number of assured celebrating her sexuality.

The singer, 24, has loved in meteoric upward push prior to now few years.

Her unmarried Move, first launched in 2020, turned into a viral hit on TikTok in 2023 – emerging to quantity 2 within the charts, and propelling Burns directly to a Brits Critics’ Selection award nomination later that yr.

She tells BBC Newsbeat having songs like this is “tremendous vital”, particularly rising up and working out who you’re.

“It is great to understand that individuals such as you exist and exist freely,” she says.

“And I feel the ‘fun-ness’ of the track can display individuals who are not lesbian or queer or bi or no matter that we’re simply standard human beings who like in order that occur to love the similar intercourse.”

Previously yr, the charts were ruled greater than as soon as via queer ladies writing brazenly about homosexual relationships.

Chappell Roan’s Just right Good fortune, Babe! tells the tale of being in love with a girl suffering to come back to phrases with their sexuality and spent 16 weeks in the United Kingdom best 10.

And after Billie Eilish claimed she was once “outed” via Selection mag in 2023, she adopted up together with her album Hit Me Exhausting and Comfortable, together with the only Lunch which explored her want for ladies.

Billboard described the monitor, which peaked at quantity two in the United Kingdom chart, as “a wonderful queer awakening”.

Earlier than that regardless that, there may be been slender pickings for mainstream pop songs that remember original lesbian relationships.

Take, as an example, Katy Perry’s 2008 debut I Kissed A Lady.

It is “a super pop track”, Cat says, however does not move any deeper than the primary level of exploring sexuality.

“I feel it is at all times excellent once we make room and make allowance house for lesbian and queer artists to to talk about it while we are additional into our adventure,” she says.

“The place it is much less interest and attempting… and it is and it is extra like: ‘No, I am into it now and truly delving to my enjoy as a queer girl’.”

And the extra voices that upload to that, the easier, Cat says.

“The extra illustration and extra space for various kinds of queer artist, it will possibly simply lend a hand paint a extra bright image of what the group’s in fact like and who exists inside of that group.

“Having folks like Reneé Rapp and Chappell Roan and, expectantly, any person like myself, we are beginning to display those that we aren’t a monolith and we range around the spectrum.”

Cat, who is prior to now spoken about her ADHD and autism spectrum dysfunction (ASD) diagnoses, says she “falls into such a lot of other teams” and needs to have a good time variations.

“I simply wish to proceed to turn those that we are simply no longer all a technique,” she says.

“What you already know of one thing may no longer at all times be true.”

As for why it sort of feels extra artists are getting comfy writing about their sexuality, Cat credit social media in addition to different artists that experience long gone ahead of.

“Social media has allowed extra queer artists to be queer loudly,” she says.

“Protection-wise, ahead of it was once tougher. There is such a lot of icons that experience prepared the ground.

“I am truly glad that I used to be in a position to make a track like Ladies!, for it to be gained how it has been and for me to be so in a position to be open about what it is about.”

With extra artists loudly celebrating the LGBT group, Cat says the fan base now has the chance to be loud again of their give a boost to.

“The LGBTQ + group, we are an excessively laborious fan base,” she says. “We adore our favorite artists down and can do eternally.

“We champion and love a whole lot of immediately artists, which is superb.

“Bur I feel it is great that, within the ultimate 5 to ten years, we are now getting queer artists having the ability to be championed and cherished via our personal group.”

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