Isak Danielson, Desperate Guy | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 61st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Desperate Guy” performed by Isak Danielson. 

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 61^st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Desperate Guy” performed by Isak Danielson.

“If I’m your mistake, please make it twice / I’m just a fool, who just loves you for miles.” Aww, Isak Danielson 🥹.  The Swedish 🇸🇪 musician pours his heart out on his single, “Desperate Guy”.  Too frequently, men are afraid to be vulnerable. Danielson is unafraid to bare his feelings. He penned the brief but potent song with Simon Strömstedt. Danielson is supported by a radiant accompaniment (keys, guitars, dramatic strings) produced by Kevin Anderson.

Danielson delivers gorgeous, nuanced vocals from the onset of “Desperate Guy.” His tone is stunning. Authentic to the nth degree, he sings with incredible sincerity.  The lyrics are poetic and heartfelt. “I never pretend when I’m with you / How can a love, so sweet and so pure,” he sings in the second verse, continuing, “Cut me so deep, causin’ me pain / But I’d do it over, and over again.” The chorus is especially tuneful, where his desperation is most pronounced:

“I feel the rain on my skin

Now I know what they mean

…I’ll stay here, stay here

So, you know where to meet

Just look for a desperate guy on your street.”

“Desperate Guy” pulls back the final 20 seconds of the song. Danielson is only accompanied by a guitar.  He sings the final verse, continuing to share his love and yearning for this man: “If I’m late too late, I wish that you knew / Don’t think I’ll ever find someone like you.” Isak Danielson, you put your whole foot and whole heart into this one!

Isak Danielson // “Desperate Guy” // Isak Danielson // 2024

Isak Danielson, Desperate Guy: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 61 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Isak Danielson; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]