Dan Jarman, boys hurting boys | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 38th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “boys hurting boys” performed by Dan Jarman. 

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musician(s) and analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 38^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “boys hurting boys” performed by Dan Jarman.

“Boys hurting boys / It’s the vibe of summer.” Sigh, that vibe is sus Dan Jarman 😏, but you speak the truth. “Boys hurting boys” marks the debut single for the pop singer/songwriter and he delivers the goods.  He penned the sunny-sounding song while Olli Daffarn and SoundSetters produced.  Even with the ‘hurt’ happening between boys, specifically him and his ex-bf, Jarman seems at peace with the breakup.

“Up late-night drinking / Midnight and falling / In the dark in your flat,” he sings nostalgically, continuing, “Now you’re back in Chicago / I’ve got your heart though / Bet you miss dancing like that.” Notably, these recurrent lyrics find Jarman ascending into his powerful upper register.  He’s more dynamic as he recollects the past. “Time to leave the past / In the past.” Truer words have never been spoken.  Dan sings more cool, calm, and collected in the verses.  He sounds breezy – ‘cool like summer’ – never breaking a sweat.  He sings tuneful melodies with ease, confessing the end of their romance.  “My obsession with you / Is slowly dying,” he admits. Oh, snap! Later, he provides perfect evidence of their incompatibility beyond the past:

“It’s meant to be, meant to be

What, like Jekyll and Hyde?

You and me, you and me

Scorpio, Gemini

Can’t you see, can’t you see

It’s time for new storylines.”

Out with the old, in with the new… boy ♂ 🤭! “Boys hurting boys” is sweet – the song, not the practice of breaking up! Delightful, this pop joint benefits from warm production, set in a major key, strong songwriting, and a sublime vocal performance by Dan Jarman. Breakups aren’t advocated unnecessarily but sound enticing with “Boys hurting boys” as the model 😜!

Dan Jarman // “boys hurting boys” // Dan Jarman // 2024

Dan Jarman, boys hurting boys: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 38 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Dan Jarman; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]