MKSM, Loving Myself | LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶

In the 32^nd edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2023), we highlight the song, “Loving Myself” performed by MKSM. 

Be prepared to #SLAY! LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 embraces, highlights, and celebrates singles and tracks by LGBTQIA 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 BOPZ can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 32^nd edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2023), we highlight 🎵 “Loving Myself” performed by 🎙 MKSM.  

“I could spend more time on loving myself.” So many of us could, 🎙 MKSM, particularly if you are a member of a marginalized community.  The openly gay, Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and violinist delivers an authentic, honest, and uplifting song with 🎵 “Loving Myself”.  “Loving Myself” appears as the fourth and final track from MKSM’s 2023 EP, 💿 Last One (EP).  As awesome as MKSM was while 🎵 “Breaking My Rules”, he’s even more potent on this track of self-acceptance, loving one’s self.

“Loving Myself” was written by MKSM alongside 🎼 ✍ Linda Stark, Maxi Schulze, and producer, 🎛 Thilo Wehrmann.  Both the music and lyrics are terrific.  Beginning with the music – the production – Wehrmann puts in superb work behind the boards.  The sound exemplifies modern pop, in all its slickness. Also, what about those strings 🎻?  Beyond that shimmering backdrop, MKSM compels with gorgeous vocals. He gets a lift (positively) with colorful vocal production and effects, which play into this fresh, fresh vibe.  More important than the production is the songwriting – the theme and lyrics. MKSM is authentic and sincere from the onset. “All the double tapping on my phone / So I would never feel alone / On my own in my illusionary home,” he sings in the first verse, being transparent about his struggles. You can infer struggles are multilayered – body image, sexuality, etc. By the second verse, the lyrics suggest he (the character in the song) is learning to love himself sans an illusionary home: “Hey, there’s no need to be ashamed / It takes some time to feel this way / And that’s okay, it doesn’t have to be today.” Man, oh man, does that hit home! Rome wasn’t built in a day, particularly when it comes to hard, painful issues. Of course, the chorus is the crème de la crème, where the love is pronounced!

“I could spend more time on loving myself

No need for explanations when I’m loving myself

Could be chasing dreams of somebody else

But I’d rather spend more time on loving myself.”

MKSM shines on 🎵 “Loving Myself”, a perfect song about accepting who you and ultimately, loving who you are.  MKSM says it best: you don’t have to explain anything when you love yourself. The pop bop not only the LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 community needs, but the entire world.

🎙 MKSM • 💿 Last One (EP) • 🏷 Milch Musik • 📅 2023

MKSM, Loving Myself: LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 No. 32 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Milch Musik; CatsWithGlasses, John Collins, TheQueerAI from Pixabay]