Olly Alexander, Dizzy | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 21^st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight the song, “Dizzy” performed by Olly Alexander (Years & Years). 

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 being 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 21^st edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2024), we highlight “Dizzy” performed by Olly Alexander (Years & Years).

“Won’t you make me dizzy from your kisses?” Now that sounds like vertigo I can endorse, Olly Alexander (Years & Years). The British synthpop artist excels at capturing the gay experience. His songs about boys are spot-on and “Dizzy” is no exception.  He composed “Dizzy” alongside producer Danny Harle.  Harle gives the former Years & Years artist a sleek backdrop – ample fuel for his fire! Notably, this song represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

The song is simple thematically.  Boy likes boy and boy wants to spend time loving on said boy. “Beautiful gardens, eternal flowers,” Alexander sings in the first verse, continuing, “You know the way, so take me there.” In the second, Olly asserts, “Pulling me close, I feel a stillness in the air / Time has frozen, all memories lost.” Why? Love, that’s why! The chorus is the section to beat as Olly seeks a never-ending moment of L-O-V-E (“Will you take my hand and spin me / ‘Round and ‘round until the moment never ends?” Throughout, he sings angelically, matching the beauty of the love – those sweet, sweet kisses! A song best experienced rather than explained, “Dizzy” is a surefire, pop bop that easily makes you beam with pride 🏳️‍🌈.

Olly Alexander (Years & Years) // “Dizzy” // Universal Music Operations Limited // 2024

Olly Alexander, Dizzy: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 21 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Universal Music Operations Limited; Elias Souza, Los Muertos Crew from Pexels; CatsWithGlasses, Maicon Fonseca Zanco, Square Frog, Sudo from Pixabay]