Lynks, ABOMINATION | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 18^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “ABOMINATION” performed by Lynks. 

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  In this column, we provide background and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops being served up.  Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is articulated to the fullest.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 18^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “ABOMINATION” performed by Lynks.

“I’ve got a confession (Yeah) / And I don’t think it’s likely to land me a place in Heaven.” Uh-oh, Lynks (he/she/they pronouns). What sin could damn the pop artist to hell? “Since age eleven /… I’ve been told I’m a heathen / So you best believe I’m on the guest list for the Armageddon.” Um, can you be more specific on “ABOMINATION” Lynks? “Only lowkey gimp that could make Sean Cody look like a Disney movie.” Yep, it’s sexuality! Sean Cody gave it away! In this highlight from his 2024, also titled, ABOMINATION, church and religion are not his friends.  “I walk in the room with the cross and the pews / And my skin burns up like a ginger in June.” Damn.  Ultimately, he’s “a godless fool, yeah, it’s pretty old news.”

What isn’t old news is how much ass Lynks kicks on “ABOMINATION.” He wrote and produced the track, which thrives because of its electrifying rhymes and sick instrumental.  Set in a minor key, the devilishness and sinfulness are alive and well! The big takeaway is about how the LGBTQ+ community finds themselves eternally damned and shunned by churches and religion. Lynks is unhappy with faith-based things, asserting, “It makes me wanna be unsacred.” Oh, snap! A ‘holy shit!’ moment occurs when he criticizes God, asserting, “Oh, God, don’t You think it’s a bit hypocritical / You get to love all men,” later adding, “Well, goddamn, my God don’t wanna guard me no more / He said love thy neighbor, but only if they got the opposite genitals.” Ooh-wee! Mic-drop moment! The British musician also cries foul beyond “Drivin’ evangelicals crazy,” perturbed when:

“Think of a teenager tryna make a blood donation

Turned away based on his orientation

Now every time I see the British Heart Foundation

I’m reminded that I’m an abomination

And my gay blood’s not fit for circulation

Headed face-first straight to damnation

It’s why I try and be sacred (Amen).”

Lynks kills it on “ABOMINATION”, a song that will undoubtedly speak to those who have felt alienated and made to feel less because of their sexual orientation.

Lynks // ABOMINATION // Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS] // 2024

Lynks, ABOMINATION: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 18 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS]; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]