POP singer Isa Bruder released a queer song in 2020 and said she received pushback from her team. Now, artists like Chappell Roan , Renee Rapp , and Billie Eilish are paving the way for other queer artists to sing about what they want. Isa is a queer independent artist who performs around New York City .
She released her coming out single, Close to Her , in 2020. With lyrics like, "All that I know for sure is I wanna be close to her" and "I didn't choose this, but I don't want to lose this," Isa's team did not want the song released. "It was my dream to become a pop star, and I was showing these people in the industry my song, and I was told not to release it because it was overtly queer," Isa told The U.
S. Sun. "And they were like, 'It's going to alienate a lot of audiences.
You don't want to alienate anybody because the song was about a girl, so it has she/her pronouns.'" "I was told by a couple of people in the industry that releasing a romantic song about a girl was not a good idea," she said. "That was only four years ago and it's so incredible for me to see in that short period of time that the narrative has been able to shift.
" Isa said she doesn't think the song alienated her listeners and it found the people it was supposed to find. "If I write music that isn't true to me, then no one is going to relate to it," she said. "If I write music that is true to me, and I'm a queer person, then the music is going to be queer and then it's going to be authentic.
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