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Queer Jams of the Week: New Music From Reneé Rapp, Kevin Abstract, Kim Petras & More

Welcome to Queer Jams of the Week, a weekly roundup of new music from LGBTQ+ artists including Renee Rapp, Kim Petras and more.

Switching effortlessly between a slinky, R&B-tinged performance on the verses and a bombastic, pop-heavy belt on the chorus, Rapp makes a good point — after all, she right when she says “All of the time, you wasted in your head/ We could’ve been having sex!” That’s a fact that remains readily apparent on Blush, the singer-rappers new solo LP, where Abstract links up with a murderer’s row of collaborators — from JPEGMAFIA and Love Spells to Dominic Fike and Jim-E Stack — to make his most fascinating project to date. So, for his debut LP, Frankie Grande took some of his darker thoughts, blended them with a series of bombastic dance-pop beats and created Hotel Rock Bottom, an often earnest, occasionally campy tabelau of personal highs, lows and all the moments that come in between.

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