Gregory Dillon, Heaven Hates Me | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 74th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Heaven Hates Me” performed by Gregory Dillon.

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 74^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Heaven Hates Me” performed by Gregory Dillon.

“Cruising lately / I know that / Heaven hates me.” Cruising, huh? His voice does something to me… just being honest 🤩. Gregory Dillon is one talented dude.  The deepness of his pipes – sexy.  And, for good measure, he’s easy on the eyes, too 😍.  That said, the focus is on his devilish song, “Heaven Hates Me”.  No, the opening track from Heaven Hates Me isn’t explicitly hellish, but still, with “Reckless driving / Dashboards through the flames / I’m always playing like the boys inside the game,” it isn’t innocent! Dillon and French Original penned and produced this un-heavenly bop.

“Maybe you could stay now / We are the night / In every shadow is a way out / From my mind, mind.”  The lyrics are dark throughout “Heaven Hates Me” which is part of the charm.  In its darkness, the chorus continues, “Driving through the dark is a virtue / Blinded by the light when I’m with you / Baby, can you stay now?” So, this boy is a bad boy, or so it seems.  Heaven can’t like him if he’s with him! Of course, ask those who don’t approve of same-sex relationships, and it wouldn’t matter if the boy is good or bad… I digress.  The dramatic Dillon delivers some more compelling lyrical moments.  “Could I just open a window and feel the rain?” he asks.  Also, there’s the assertion that “The thunder echoing after / I can’t explain (Baby I can’t explain).” My, my, my! “Heaven Hates Me” closes fittingly: “I need you / To set me free / I’m a fallen angel / Banished without wings.”  Word. Once more, Gregory Dillon, an intriguing musician who deserves more recognition, ‘puts his foot into’ this song.

Gregory Dillon // Heaven Hates Me // 444 Sounds // 2024

Gregory Dillon, Heaven Hates Me: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 74 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; 444 Sounds; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]