Frankie Grande, Boys | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 72^nd edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Boys” performed by Frankie Grande.

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 musicians, analyze, plus go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When songs dictate deeper and more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome, whether the songs are classics or brand-new. So, without further ado, in the 72^nd edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Boys” performed by Frankie Grande.

“Boys (Take it off, take it off, take off).” Y-y-yes puhlease! If you’ve got it, then flaunt it, honeyyy, like d-d-damn! Frankie Grande (he/him pronouns) is one of a kind. That is an understatement! He is flamboyant and unapologetic to the nth degree. In the eighth track from his 2025 debut album, Hotel Rock Bottom, he tackles a universally relatable subject: “Boys”! I mean, who won’t co-sign a hottie showing off? Yum 🤤! Also, for good measure, in the 20^th track on Hotel Rock Bottom (Deluxe), he taps pansexual, nonbinary German DJ and producer Felix Jaehn (they/them/he/him pronouns) for the remix (“Boys – Felix Jaehn Remix”).  Ah, so much to sink one’s teeth into, whether it’s the original or the remix!

“Boys” is an energetic dance joint. Picturesque keys and synths fuel the fire, in addition to a beat readymade for the dance floor, and of course, the boys!  The melodies are rhythmic throughout.  Frankie Grande shines with his flirty, ripe tenor vocals.  His performance is playful from the get-go.  He is even naughtier when he busts a rhyme – that spoken word type shit about them b-to-the-o-to-the-y-to-the-esses (boys, if you couldn’t catch my drift)!  The lyrics aren’t profound, mind you, but fun! “We call it love for a good time, good time / Don’t get what it is, if it feels right, alright,” he asserts in the first verse.  In the second, Frankie gets mathematical! “One plus one equals more than two / ‘Cause I like you and I like him too / You and your boyfriend both are cute / When you look this good, you don’t gotta choose.” Well… are they into polyamory, Frankie 😬? The chorus is the section beat, unsurprisingly!

“Boys wanna have a little fun

Wanna fake a little love

Wanna leave ‘em when we’re done

(Boys, boys, boys, boys).”

Woo! The post-chorus, where our boi encourages this other boi to take it off, is fun and of course, titillating! Highlighting the remix, Felix Jaehn speeds up the tempo.  He adds some intense, sharp synths that amplify the cut even more for the discotheque 🕺🪩 and gay club! There are plenty of repeated lyrics, sections, and unforgettable vocal riffs from Grande.  Not only are “Boys” hot 🥵 😍, but so is this surefire gay dance banger from Frankie Grande!