Perfume Genius, “Your Body Changes Everything” | LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶

On the 14^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight the song, “Your Body Changes Everything” performed by Perfume Genius.

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ring on the B-O-P-Z, like #SLAYYY! LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 is a column t that embraces, highlights, and celebrates singles and tracks by LGBTQIA musicians.  On LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶we provide background info and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the 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 and the BOPZ can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, on the 14^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 (2022), we highlight 🎵 “Your Body Changes Everything” performed by 🎙 Perfume Genius.

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Theme & Lyrics ✍

“Give me your weight, I’m solid / Hold me up, I’m falling down.” Well, that’s two entirely different lines, isn’t it? On his stellar fifth studio album, 💿 Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, 🎙 Perfume Genius (🎙 Mike Hadreas) exhibited a high level of musicianship.  One of the truly terrific LGBTQ+ artists in the game, Hadreas is ALWAYS worth highlighting. #He Totally Slays! Honestly, is there any song from Set My Heart on Fire Immediately that wouldn’t qualify as a terrific LGBTQ Bop 🌈🎶? That’s rhetorical, by the way… sort of.  Anyways, 🎵 “Your Body Changes Everything” may not be the best or most renowned song from the album but it is a worthwhile listen.

Of “Your Body Changes Everything,” Hadreas told Apple Music, “I wrote ‘Your Body Changes Everything’ about the idea of not bringing prescribed rules into connection — physical, emotional, long-term, short-term — having each of those be guided by instinct and feel, and allowed to shift and change whenever it needed to.” Woo – that deep! As far as the sound of the record, the electronic drums and programming stand out. The record successfully balances vintage sounds and more contemporary alternative/chamber-pop. Vocally, Hadreas delivers authentic, emotional vocals, expressing the power of love and desire.

Hadreas goes on to say:

I think of it as a circle: how you can be dominant and passive within a couple of seconds or at the exact same time, and you’re given room to do that and you’re giving room to someone else to do that. I like that dynamic, and that can translate into a lot of different things—into dance or sex or just intimacy in general.

It’s love and desire that stand out the most to the ears.  The excerpted lines speak to contrasting positions, which is quite intriguing.  Sure, those positions are physical (think about it), but as Hadreas explicates, those positions don’t have to be attached to intimacy and sex itself. The chorus, expectedly, is the centerpiece, in all its poetry and reflection:

“Your body changes everything

You are anchoring

Until you fit beneath me

And you’re breaking like a wave

Your body changes everything

I can hardly breathe

And now you’re right above me

And your shadow suffocates.”

On the post-chorus, Hadreas has a series of questions for his lover including, “Can you feel my love? Do you feel the same?”

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Final Thoughts 💭 

As previously stated, if you haven’t missed the superb 2020 album, 💿 Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, you’re totally missing out.  Specifically, 🎵 “Your Body Changes Everything” is a fantastic addition to the LGBTQ catalog – a surefire LGBTQ Bop 🌈🎶. “A lot of times, I feel like I’m supposed to pick one thing—one emotion, one way of being. But sometimes, I’m two contradicting things at once.” Perfume Genius perfectly captures that in this totally must-hear record.  

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🎙 Perfume Genius • 💿 Set My Heart on Fire Immediately • 🏷 Matador • 🗓 2020

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Perfume Genius, “Your Body Changes Everything”: LGBTQ Bopz 🌈🎶 No. 14 (2022) [📷: Anna Shvets, Brent Faulkner, Kurious, Matador, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay]

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