Rick Glam, VAMPIRE | Beaming with Pride

In the 88^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “VAMPIRE” performed by Rick Glam.

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 musicians, analyze, plus go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When songs dictate deeper and more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome, whether the songs are classics or brand-new. So, without further ado, in the 88^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “VAMPIRE” performed by Rick Glam.

Oh, snap, Rick Glam (Paulo Silva)! “VAMPIRE” is fittingly the name of the song, which is the opener of the queer Brazilian electronic musician’s 2025 EP, VAMPIRE (EP). Something tells me, however, blood sucking is NOT what he’s getting at. It’s giving brain 🧠, dome, head, … oral pleasure. Rick Glam produced this vampirical, gay sex record with Brenozy. 

Before diving into the suction abilities, the sound “VAMPIRE” deserves a shout-out.  It commences with a J.S. Bach interpolation (Toccata and Fugue), a piece of music associated with horror. This is fitting given its vampirical nature, not to mention the EP was released in October 2025. Beyond the Bach musical quote, “VAMPIRE” features sleek production work.  The electronic palette is on point thanks to the rhythmic synths and a sickening beat.  The sound is big, but the straw that stirs the drink is Rick Glam – the cute, bloodsucker that he is! His vocals are playful, naughty, and sensual.  Dirty-minded and sex positive to the nth degree, Glam doesn’t shy away from lust.  “Creature of the night, dirty mind, no limitations,” he sings in the first verse, and adds, “I’m walking till sunrise, maybe I’ll give into temptation / Blood is rushing through my body, I don’t need salvation.” Hmm, I wonder, where specifically is the blood rushing to? I have an idea… He is also alluding to how members of the LGBTQ+ community are viewed as more erotic, promiscuous, and sexual, etc. In the second verse, he references Transylvania, informing her (probably him, honestly), “Transylvania life, I’m Dracula, you’re my wife.” As great as the Dracula references are, the infectious chorus takes the cake with its repetitive, sucking lyrics (excerpted earlier).  There are also plenty of repetitive lyrics elsewhere, including the bridge (“Let me try”), and the extended outro (“Only a vampire, do-do, do-do /… Can suck, can suck… / Su-su-suck you like I do.” “VAMPIRE” is erotic, gay, and nothing short of intriguing.

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Rick Glam, VAMPIRE: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 88 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Rick Glam; Elias Souza, Mario Spencer, Mizuno K, from Pexels; AcatXIo, All_CC0_Public_domain, CatsWithGlasses, David, ernestflowerss, Kelly, M. Harris, Marek Studzinski, OpenClipart-Vectors, from Pixabay]

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