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‘I could eat that girl for lunch’: the sexually explicit queer female pop topping the charts

Billie Eilish is the latest singer to write frankly about sex between women – without it being titillation for men. Artists from King Princess to Girli explain why it’s taken so long

This flood of tracks comes after a gradual buildup of songs by queer women in the past decade – notably in 2018 with the release of Janelle Monáe’s unabashedly yonic Pynk (with grapefruits and vulva-shaped outfits in the music video), Hayley Kiyoko’s Expectations and King Princess’s Pussy Is God. “I’m excited about the future – I hope people are going to get even more explicit!” says Amber Bain, AKA British singer-songwriter the Japanese House, who finds these lustful songs a welcome change from when she was growing up in the 00s. “One of the biggest parts of self-acceptance when you’re in your formative years is seeing yourself reflected in someone you admire,” she says, adding that adolescent queers of her generation often felt “lost, ashamed” due to the lack of representation.

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