Jordan Suaste, Scary to be loved | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 69th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Scary to be loved” performed by Jordan Suaste.

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 69^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Scary to be loved” performed by Jordan Suaste..

“Maybe one day / You’ll spread your / Wings and fly / And break the chains that tie you to the ground.” Living in fear, in a box, can make you feel chained down.  It is more liberating to be fearless and take the plunge, as Jordan Suaste sings expressively, with the utmost sincerity in his ballad, “Scary to be loved”. Providing more context, Suaste adds, “You’ll shed your fears and meet me in the clouds.” Matters of the heart can be pesky.  They can be even peskier when queer and not heterosexual or heteronormative.

Suaste delivers the pitch-perfect ballad about embracing love with “Scary to be loved.”  It takes courage, but it’s well worth it.  He encourages this anxious, scared being to “let your guard down,” and asserts, “I’ll help you get back up.” Sweet, sweet, sweet! Notably, secrecy is mentioned in the final verse, which makes me wonder if being uncomfortable with sexuality plays a role.  Regardless of what the fear is, in the chorus, the centerpiece, Suaste vows to ‘hold them down.’

“You, you

Let me wrap my arms around you

You, you

Keep you safe, these arms were made for you

You, you

Let me wrap my arms around you.”

Preach, Jordan! To reiterate, “Scary to be loved” is utterly gorgeous. It may indeed be scary to be loved but it is well worth the try.  This song right here easily makes me beam with pride!

Jordan Suaste // maybe I already am // Jordan Suaste / Position Music // 2024

Jordan Suaste, Scary to be loved: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 69 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Jordan Suaste / Position Music; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, David, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]