Politics aren’t accidental to the musician, one of a new wave of young polymaths speaking openly about their sexual identities and demanding their rights
Mikaela Straus, better known as King Princess, swaggered across the Metro Theatre’s stage in Sydney on a Tuesday night, beaming at the screaming audience in between swigs of VB and increasingly obvious puffs on her Juul vape. “We’re gonna go hard tonight!” She smirked suggestively, the air heavy with the kind of crushed-out intensity usually inspired by boy bands you’d save to your lock screen.
It’s been a while since I was at a show that vibrated on this kind of obsessive plane, with fans emitting strangled yelps whenever King Princess simply spoke, moved or vaped. At one point between songs she yelled either “y’all are gay!” or “y’all look gay!” and both worked just as well, the room full of mostly young LGBTI women dressed like they’d time-warped from 1994 to the present day to worship their new genderqueer lesbian deity who, coincidentally, just released a new single last week called Pussy is God.
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