Disney but just the Queer Mood™ Songs, a full Spotify Playlist
Open to updates should anyone notice a song I missed!
Tracklist with specific lyrics that fuck us all up under the cut:
KEY: A general list of which songs resonate with people. The 🏳️🌈is for general songs; if you relate to a song but don’t see ur emoji beneath it, send me a message and I’ll add it!
🏳️🌈 General Queer Anthem
🌈 Gays specifically have related to this song
❤️ Gay Men specifically have related to this song
🧡 Lesbians specifically have related to this song
💕 Bisexuals/Pansexuals specifically have related to this song
💜 Asexuals/Ace-spectrum people specifically have related to this song
💚 Aromatics/Aro-spectrum people specifically have related to this song
🤍 Trans people have specifically related to this song
🖤 Nonbinary/Genderqueer people have specifically related to this song
💗 Polyamorous people have specifically related to this song
Know Who You Are - Moana
🏳️🌈
They have stolen the heart from inside you
But this does not define you
This is not who you are
You know who you are...
I Wonder - Sleeping Beauty
🌈🧡
I wonder, I wonder,
I wonder why each little bird has a someone
To sing to, sweet things to,
A gay little love melody
I wonder, I wonder,
I wonder if my heart keeps singing,
Will my song go winging
To someone, who'll find me
And bring back a love song to me...
Mother Knows Best - Tangled
🏳️🌈 honestly this is just... a general song for some of our shitty relationships to guardian figures...
It's a scary world out there
Mother knows best
One way or another
Something will go wrong, I swear
Me, I'm just your mother, what do I know?
I only bathed and changed and nursed you
Go ahead and leave me, I deserve it
Let me die alone here, be my guest
When it's too late
You'll see, just wait
Mother knows best
Don't forget it
You'll regret it...
Dangerous to Dream - Frozen Broadway Production
🏳️🌈
I can't be what you expect of me
But I'm trying every day with all I do and do not say
Here on the edge of the abyss
Knowing everything in my whole life has lead to this
And so I pull inside myself, close the walls, put up my guard
I've practiced every single day for this
So why is it so hard?
I can't dwell on what we've lost
And our secrecy and silence comes at such a cost
I wish I could tell the truth
Show you who's behind the door
I wish you knew what all this pantomime
And pageantry was for
It's dangerous to wish I could make choices of my own
Dangerous to even have that thought
I'm dangerous just standing here for everyone to see
If I let go of rules who knows how dangerous I'd be?
Reflection - Mulan
🏳️🌈🤍🖤- literally everyone requested this. everyone. so im just copy-pasting the entire lyrics sorry not sorry
Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be I'm not meant to play this part?
Now I see that if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart
Who is that girl I see staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?
Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I’ve tried
When will my reflection show who I am inside?
How I pray that a time will come I can free myself
From their expectations
On that day, I'll discover someway to be myself
And to make my family proud
They want a docile lamb
No one knows who I am
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
Everything I Ever Thought I Knew - Tangled: The Series
🏳️🌈 when u realize u might not be straight lol
I thought no one could love me
And how could I have known?
I was wrong, oh so wrong
Everything I ever thought I knew
Where I've been, where I'm going
Everything I counted on turned out to be untrue
Could've guessed, should've known, now I do
If none of it was really me then who am I supposed to be?
I guess I'm someone else now
I wonder who I am
God Help the Outcasts - Hunchback of Notre Dame
🏳️🌈...yeah. yeah
Yes, I know I'm just an outcast
I shouldn't speak to You
Still, I see Your face and wonder
Were You once an outcast, too?
God help the outcasts, hungry from birth
Show them the mercy they don't find on Earth
God help my people, they look to You, still
God help the outcasts or nobody will
I ask for nothing, I can get by
But I know so many less lucky than I
Please help my people, the poor and downtrod
I thought we all were the children of God
Belle (Reprise) - Beauty and the Beast
🌈 when a cishet thinks ur interested smh
Madame Gaston! Can't you just see it?
Madame Gaston! His little wife
No, sir! Not me!
I guarantee it
I want much more than this provincial life!
I want adventure in the great wide somewhere
I want it more than I can tell
And for once it might be grand
To have someone understand
I want so much more than they've got planned...
Part of Your World - The Little Mermaid
🌈 SO many people requested this one guys it’s not even funny
Wandering free, wish I could be
Part of that world
Betcha on land, they understand
Bet they don't reprimand their daughters
Bright young women, sick of swimming
Ready to stand
When's it my turn?
Wouldn't I love,
Love to explore that shore up above?
One Jump Ahead (Reprise) - Aladdin
🏳️🌈
Riff-raff, street rat
I don't buy that
If only they'd look closer
Would they see a poor boy? No, siree
They'd find out
There's so much more to me...
Proud of Your Boy - Aladdin Broadway Production
🏳️🌈❤️🤍
That I've been one rotten kid
Some son, some pride and some joy
But I'll get over these lousin' up
Messin' up, screwin' up times...
Water flows under the bridge
Let it pass, let it go
There's no good reason that you should believe me
Not yet, I know, but
Someday and soon
I'll make you proud of your boy
Though I can't make myself taller
Or smarter or handsome or wise
I'll do my best, what else can I do?
Since I wasn't born perfect like Dad or you...
Someone’s Waiting for You - The Rescuers
🏳️🌈
Be brave, little one
Make a wish for each sad little tear
Hold your head up though no one is near
Someone's waiting for you
Always keep a little prayer in your pocket
And you're sure to see the light
Soon there'll be joy and happiness
And your little world will be bright
Have faith, little one
Til your hopes and your wishes come true
Stick to the Status Quo - High School Musical
🏳️🌈 🌈 YOU ALL KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS IS HERE
No, no, no, stick to the stuff you know
It is better by far to keep things as they are
Don't mess with the flow, no no
Stick to the status quo
Into the Unknown - Frozen 2
🏳️🌈
I can hear you, but I won't
Some look for trouble while others don't
There's a thousand reasons I should go about my day
And ignore your whispers which I wish would go away
I've had my adventure, I don't need something new
I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you
Or are you someone out there who's a little bit like me?
Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be?
Every day's a little harder as I feel my power grow
Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go
Where are you going?
Don't leave me alone
How do I follow you
Into the unknown?
Go the Distance - Hercules
🏳️🌈
I have often dreamed of a far off place
Where a great, warm welcome will be waiting for me
And a voice keeps saying
This is where I'm meant to be
I am on my way, I can go the distance
I don't care how far, somehow I'll be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to find where I belong
Tomorrow - Annie
🏳️🌈 - betcha didnt know disney had an annie movie did u
The sun will come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There'll be sun
When I'm stuck in a day that's gray and lonely,
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, oh,
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
So you gotta hang on til tomorrow, come what may...
Learn Me Right - Brave
🏳️🌈💜💚
Though I may speak some tongue of old
Or even spit out some holy word
I have no strength with which to speak
When you sit me down and see I’m weak
We will run and scream you will dance with me
We'll fulfill our dreams, and we'll be free
We will be who we are, and they’ll heal our scars
Sadness will be far away...
Strange Sight - Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast
🏳️🌈
You stand in the light
You're wrong, but you're right
And my heart's beating wildly
Strange how I'm scared but delighted
Afraid, but excited too
I will understand you
Strange how I'm drawn to the danger
I reach out my hand to you
If you're caught in the shadows and turned all around
Lost in the darkness, you will be found
If you hear my voice, follow the sound
Cause I'm here to guide you home...
I Don’t Dance - High School Musical 2
🌈 ❤️ 💕 okay so if you weren’t here for the high school musical tumblr revival you may be confused but listen... it’s about being mlm...
Step up to the plate, start swinging
I wanna play ball
Now that’s all, this is what I do
It ain’t no dance that you can show me
I’ve got what it takes playin’ my game
So you best skin that pitch you gonna throw me, yeah
I’ll show you how I swing
I can prove it to you ‘til you know it’s true
Cause I can swing it, I can bring it to the diamond too
You’re talking a lot, show me what you got
Stop, swing!
Kiss the Girl - cover of The Little Mermaid
this version is sung by a girl so 🧡💕
There you see her, sitting there across the way
She don't got a lot to say but there's something about her
And you don't know why, but you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It's possible she want you too
There is one way to ask her...
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - The Lion King
🏳️🌈
An enchanted moment
And it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you
There's a time for everyone if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn
There's a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight?
How it's laid to rest
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best
Beauty and the Beast - Beauty and the Beast
🏳️🌈- a lot of queer people tend to empathize with “beastly” characters so we all latched the fuck onto this movie huh
Just a little change, small to say the least
Both a little scared, neither one prepared
Ever just the same, ever a surprise
Ever as before, ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change
Learning you were wrong...
Healing Incantation - Tangled
🏳️🌈🤍🖤
Heal what has been hurt
Change the fates' design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine
So Close - Enchanted
🏳️🌈🌈
A life goes by, romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting waiting here with you
And now, forever, I know
All that I wanted to hold you so close
Oh, how could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this one's not pretend
Let’s go on dreaming though we know we are
So close, so close, and still
So far...
If Only - Descendants
🏳️🌈🌈
A million thoughts in my head
Should I let my heart keep listening?
Cause up 'til now, I've walked the line
Nothing lost but something missing
I can't decide what's wrong, what's right
Which way should I go?
Every step, every word
With every hour I'm feeling in
To something new, something brave
To someone I've never been
Will you still be with me
When the magic's all run out?
If only I knew what my heart was telling me
Don't know what I'm feeling
Is this just a dream?
If only I could read the signs in front of me
I could find the way to who I'm meant to be
Wherever You Are - Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
🏳️🌈- out of context could be interpreted as romantic, esp since the credits version is a duet (🌈 💕) but the original context is friendship so honestly it’s very 💜💚
I'm out here in the dark, all alone and wide awake
Come and find me
I'm empty and I'm cold, and my heart's about to break
Come and find me
I need you to come here and find me
Cause without you, I'm totally lost
I've hung a wish on every star
It hasn't done much good so far
I can only dream of you
But when the morning comes and the sun begins to rise,
I will lose you
Because it’s just a dream, when I open up my eyes,
I will lose you
I used to believe in forever,
But forever is too good to be true
I've hung a wish on every star
It hasn't done much good so far
I don't know what else to do
Except to try to dream of you
And wonder, if you're dreaming too
Wherever you are
I Won’t Say (I’m In Love) - Hercules
🏳️🌈 🌈 💕
If there's a prize for rotten judgment,
I guess I've already won that
Who d'you think you're kiddin'?
He's the earth and heaven to ya
Try to keep it hidden
Honey, we can see right through ya
Girl, you can't conceal it
We know how you feel
And who you're thinking of
I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming "Get a grip, girl!"
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out
You keep on denying
Who you are and how you're feeling
Baby, we're not buying
Hon, we saw you hit the ceiling
This scene won't play
I won't say I'm in love
At least out loud,
I won't say I'm in love
Endless Night - The Lion King Broadway Production
🏳️🌈🤍 🖤
Where has the starlight gone? Dark is the day
How can I find my way home?
Home is an empty dream, lost to the night
Father, I feel so alone
When will the dawning break, oh, endless night
Sleepless I dream of the day
I know that the night must end
And that the sun will rise
I know that the clouds must clear
And that the sun will shine
Set Yourself Free - Tangled: The Series
🏳️🌈🤍
There's much more inside of you than anyone can see
And now the choice is yours
Life waits beyond the doors
So step on through, the time has come
And only you can set yourself free!
No one else can tell you what to do
Or who to be!
No one gets to say if you will stay or go
Look inside your heart and find the key...
And set yourself free!
Bound up by your worries
Trapped by your mistakes
Forced to play a role you never chose
Why not test your limits?
You've got what it takes
Let it out and follow where it goes
No more letting someone else define you to a "T"
You know that you are strong
You've known it all along
So seize the day, let down your hair
You’ll find a way to set yourself free!
So look to the horizon
Open up your wings!
Fly away to find your destiny...
And set yourself free!
Speechless - Aladdin 2019 Remake
🏳️🌈 ALL OF US ALL OF US
Here comes a wave meant to wash me away
A tide that is taking me under
Cause I'll breathe when they try to suffocate me!
Don't you underestimate me!
Cause I know that I won't go speechless!
Written in stone, every rule, every word
Centuries old and unbending
"Stay in your place, better seen and not heard,"
Well, now that story is ending
Try to lock me in this cage!
I won't just lay me down and die!
I will take these broken wings
And watch me burn across the sky!
I’m Still Here (Jim’s Theme) - Treasure Planet
🏳️🌈❤️🤍
I am a question to the world
Not an answer to be heard
Or a moment that's held in your arms
You don't know me
And I'll never be what you want me to be
And what do you think you'd understand
I'm a boy - No, I'm a man
You can't take me and throw me away
And how can you learn what's never shown
Yeah, you stand here on your own
They don't know me, cause I’m not here
And I want to tell you who I am
Can you help me be a man
They can't break me
As long as I know who I am
They can't tell me who to be
'Cause I'm not what they see
Yeah, the world is still sleepin'
While I keep on dreaming for me
And their words are just whispers and lies
That I'll never believe!
Crossing the Line - cover of Tangled: the Series
🏳️🌈 🧡 tfw when u are DONE with that fuckin closet
This has to stop now
This thing where you think that you've been my friend
And don't even hear how you condescend
The way you've always done
How I've tried to jump that great divide!
But I've never got the chances you were given
You don't know how much I've been denied
Well, I'm not being patient anymore
I'm crossing the line!
And I'm done holding back
So look out, clear the track, it's my turn!
I'm taking what's mine
Every drop, every smidge
If I'm burning a bridge, let it burn!
But I'm crossing the line...
Let it Go - Frozen
🏳️🌈 listen. i do not have to explain this one. you all know exactly why it’s here. we were all tiny gays in 2013 losing our shit in the theater for no discernable reason why. we know
Couldn't keep it in, Heaven knows I tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they know!
Let it go! Let it go!
Turn away and slam the door!
I don't care what they're going to say!
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all!
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm free!
I'm never going back, the past is in the past!
Let it go! Let it go!
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go! Let it go!
That perfect girl is gone!
This is Me - Camp Rock
🏳️🌈 🧡 💕 🤍
I've always been the kind of girl that hid my face
So afraid to tell the world what I've got to say
But I have this dream right inside of me
I'm gonna let it show it's time
To let you know
It's to let you know
Do you know what it's like to feel so in the dark?
To dream about a life where you're the shining star
This is real, this is me
I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, now
Gonna let the light shine on me
Now I've found who I am there's no way to hold it in
No more hiding who I wanna be...
Breaking Free - High School Musical
🏳️🌈 🖤
You know the world can see us
In a way that's different than who we are
Creating space between us
'Till we're separate hearts
But your faith it gives me strength
Strength to believe
Soarin, flyin
There’s not a star in heaven that we can’t reach
If we’re trying, yeah we’re breaking free
We’re running, climbin
To get to the place, to be all that we can be
Now’s the time, so we’re breaking free
True To Your Heart - Mulan
🏳️🌈 🌈
Baby, I knew at once that you were meant for me
Deep in my soul, I know that I'm your destiny
Though you're unsure
Why fight the tide
Don't think so much
Let your heart decide
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens'll part
And, baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
Someone ya know is on your side can set you free
I can do that for you if you believe in me
Why second guess what feels so right
Just trust your heart
And you'll see the light
Never Knew I Needed - The Princess and the Frog
🏳️🌈 🌈 💕
For the way you changed my plans
For being the perfect distraction
For the way you took the idea that I have
Of everything that I wanted to have
And made me see there was something missing...
My accidental happily ever after
The way you smile and how you comfort me with your laughter
I must admit you were not a part of my book
But now if you open it up and take a look
You're the beginning and the end of every chapter
You're the best thing I never knew I needed
So when you were here I had no idea
You'd be the best thing I never knew I needed
So now it's so clear I need you here always
Colors of the Wind - Pocahontas
🏳️🌈 - colors.... rainbows.... yea
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know...
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew
How high will the sycamore grow
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind...
I See the Light - Tangled
🏳️🌈 🌈 - you would not BELIEVE how many of y’all requested this one
Now I'm here, blinking in the starlight
Now I'm here, suddenly I see
Standing here, it's all so clear
I'm where I'm meant to be
Now she's here shining in the starlight
Now she's here, suddenly I know
If she's here it's crystal clear
I'm where I'm meant to go
And at last I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once, everything looks different
Now that I see you
Strangers Like Me - Tarzan
🏳️🌈 🤍 🖤- that moment when u find another queer person and ur like “holy shit”
I can see there's so much to learn
It's all so close and yet so far
I see myself as people see me
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there
Come with me now to see my world
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams
Can you feel the things I feel
Right now, with you
Take my hand
There's a world I need to know...
Why Should I Worry? - Oliver & Company
🏳️🌈- we’re queer, we’re here, get used to it
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
I may not have a dime
But I got street savoir-faire
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
It's just be-bopulation
And I got street savoir-faire
Why should I worry?
Why should I care?
And even when I crossed that line
I got street savoir-faire
Welcome - Brother Bear
🏳️🌈 pride parade amirite
Everyone's invited
This is how we live
We are here for each other, happy to give
All we have we share
And all of us we care
There's a bond between us nobody can explain
It's a celebration of life
We see our friends again
I'll be there for you
I know you'll be there for me, too
So come on!
This has to be the most beautiful
The most peaceful place I've ever been to
It's nothing like I've never seen before
When I think how far I've come
I can't believe it
And yet I see it
In them I see family
I see the way we used to be...
The Great Divide - Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings
🏳️🌈
I'm on your side
Let's take this ride
And together we're facing the world
Doing things nobody's done before
And the great divide doesn’t seem so wide anymore
With You by My Side - Tangled: the Series
💗 - tangled the series was so close to being canon polyam istg
Now; now more than ever
We must stick together united
If we're destined to head in our own different ways
Let's make the most of these sweet final days
Why not go out in a glorious blaze
There's nothing I couldn't do
Not with you by my side
What in the world would I do
Without you by my side...
Love Will Find a Way - The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride
🏳️🌈 🌈
In a perfect world
One we've never known
We would never need to face the world alone
They can have the world
We'll create our own
I may not be brave or strong or smart
But somewhere in my secret heart
And if only they could feel it too
The happiness I feel with you
Like dark turning into day
Somehow we'll come through
Now that I've found you
Love will find a way
I know love will find a way
Space Between - Descendants 2
🧡 never have i ever seen gays flock to a song faster
And you can find me in the space between
Where two worlds come to meet
I'll never be out of reach
Cause you're a part of me so you can find me in the space between
You'll never be alone
No matter where you go
We can meet in the space between
Even if we're worlds apart
You're still in my heart
It will always be you and me, yeah
If I Never Knew You - Pocahontas
🏳️🌈🌈
And if I never held you
I would never have a clue
How at last I'd find in you
The missing part of me...
In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
I can see the truth so clear
In your eyes
So dry your eyes
If I never knew you
I'd be safe but half as real
Never knowing I could feel
A love so strong and true
I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we'd make the whole world bright
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
All they'd leave us were these whispers in the night
But still my heart is saying we were right
I’d Give Anything - Tangled: the Series
🧡 rapunzel’s sad breakup song
So if you find that you're in darkness or despair
Though you won't turn to me please know I'll be right there
Name any sacrifice, I'll pay the price that's due
Cause I'd give anything for you
Yes, I'd give anything to relive everything we knew...
Someday - Hunchback of Notre Dame
🏳️🌈
I used to believe
In the days I was naïve
That I'd live to see
A day of justice dawn
And though I will die
Long before that morning comes
I'll die while believing still
It will come when I am gone
Someday, when we are wiser
When the world's older, when we have learned
I pray someday we may yet live
To live and let live
Someday, these dreams will all be real
Till then we'll wish upon the moon
Change will come, one day
Someday soon...
No One Is Alone - Into the Woods
🏳️🌈
Mother cannot guide you, now your on your own.
Only me beside you, still you're not alone.
No one is alone.
Truly, no one is alone…
People make mistakes
Holding to their own
Thinking they’re alone
Someone is on your side, someone else is not
While we’re seeing our side, maybe we forgot
They are not alone, no one is alone...
I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors) - Moana
🏳️🌈 🤍 - it’s about the self-acceptance binch
Sometimes, the world seems against you
The journey may leave a scar
But scars can heal and reveal just
Where you are
The people you love will change you
The things you have learned will guide you
And nothing on Earth can silence
The quiet voice still inside you
I've delivered us to where we are
I have journeyed farther
I am everything I've learned and more
Still it calls me
And the call isn't out there at all, it's inside me!
It's like the tide, always falling and rising
I will carry you here in my heart, you remind me
That come what may
I know the way
Show Yourself - Frozen 2
🏳️🌈 - this one was claimed immediately by the queer community and we all have a stake in it but i do want to point out that i got this from a LOT of 🤍 🖤 💜 💚
I have always been a fortress
Cold secrets deep inside
You have secrets too
But you don't have to hide
I've never felt so certain
All my life, I've been torn
But I'm here for a reason
Could it be the reason I was born?
I have always been so different
Normal rules did not apply
Is this the day?
Are you the way
I finally find out why?
Oh, show yourself
Let me see who you are...
Come to me now
Open your door
Don't make me wait
One moment more!
(Come, my darling, homeward bound)
I am found!
Transformation / Beauty and the Beast (Reprise) - Beauty and the Beast Broadway Production
🏳️🌈
We are home, we are where we shall be forever
Trust in me, for you know I won’t run away from today
This is all that I need, and all that I need to say
Don’t you know how you’ve changed me?
Strange how I finally see
I found home, you’re my home, stay with me...
Finale / Let it Go - Frozen Broadway Production
🏳️🌈 this makes me bawl so it gets finale
There’s so much I longed to say
Then say it all, beginning with today
It’s like a dream I thought could never be
Elsa, you’re free
Here we stand in the light of day
Let the sun shine on
I take this warmth within and send it up above
Goodbye to dark and fear, let’s fill this world with light and love
And here surrounded by a family at least
We’re never going back, the past is in the past
Let our true love go
Let it go!
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It’s not as though Natalie Green knew what this year held in store or what would exist at the end of the road. Though, at every step of the way, he kept going. Embodied in both his music and his story of perseverance, is a rare example of an artistic soul that found peace where few would ever dream to look. It took months of learning and continued questioning of himself and what he wanted to be. But in the end, it resulted in a man anew.
With a new project taking shape in studio sessions that contrast his earlier life, Natalie Green is finding a voice he previously was nervous to share, speaking louder than before. The ideas, memoirs and anxieties he hopes to express have become clear. With every note, he continually finds himself as much as he does connect to those who battle the same confusions.
Natalie Green now stands with a new asset he hadn’t held prior, the ability to embark on the path he wants, not the one life throws him upon. He can stand and become the artist he visualizes, the artist he knows is essential to reveal to the world. For the first time in a while, Natalie Green is in control, with a steering wheel in hand and a road of possibility on the horizon.
Our first question as always, how’s your day going and how are you?
Things have been hectic, but good. Good busy you know? There are different kinds of busy and this one has been all positive.
On your last EP last year, it sounded like you weren’t fully at peace, do you find that you are now after a year of personal introspection?
Yeah for sure, when I was writing the EP, I was in a really terrible place physically, emotionally and mentally. It was a passion project when it came out, I didn’t have to think about it. Whereas now, I’ve got a place, I’m not just in my car anymore, I emotionally feel a lot more centered, I have my head on straight. I’ve found friends and people that I love to surround myself with. Everything’s been a thousand times better.
When you’re looking within this shift you’ve undertaken, where do you think you’ve personally grown the most, whether artistically or as an individual?
I think I’ve gotten more empathetic towards people. All people. As well, I feel more self-aware. What I realized when living in my car was that I didn’t know myself. Living in a house again with roommates made me, in a new way, learn more about myself, and where I needed to spend a lot of time mentally. As far as musically, I feel more confident, I think that’s apparent in my vocals and instrumentation, they’re far more personal in that sense.
With the new year in season, being a time of reflecting upon the past year, do you have any memories that stick out to you as positive through the difficult and turbulent times?
There’s a lot. I don’t know if there’s one specific moment, but definitely moving into the apartment. I also got to play a private show in my friend’s backyard for all my close friends. That was a big moment for me. There’s a lot of moments where I had friends reassure me, and believe in me when I wasn’t doing so myself. One of my best friends from back home came to live here a little while ago, that was really special to have him back. The whole tour with Roy, of course, was inspiring, to see him do all that and becoming closer to everyone I went on tour with will forever be in my memories.
With that tour, and even more so working on Cat Heaven, happening while you were working on your own projects, did they influence the way you approached your new work?
There are certain things I learn from other people I can implement in my own music later. There will be something I’ll figure out while I’m working with someone, be it a sound or a new style, I can kinda pull out later. A lot of it is just talking to others and learning their inspirations and how that reflects in their music. Then turning and comparing that to my own influences and seeing how I do the same. It’s all just inspiration.
To touch on that idea of inspiration, you’ve mentioned in the past how you have a wide range on influences in your life in terms on music, but in the last year, which artists have really been influencing the work you’re putting out?
There’s been a lot of really great artists I just got into this past year-ish, but a big one is Michelle Zauner, who’s the singer for Japanese Breakfast. I’m hugely inspired by her, the fact she directs her own music videos and does all her own creative output, it’s really amazing. I’ve also loved the movies of Michel Gondry and the writing of Charlie Kaufman, anything they work on is amazing and so intoxicating.
With this new album you’re ramping up to release, has there been a difference in approach to how you wrote songs and lyrics? And how does that process look like?
I mean it’s been different for almost every song, I tried to do the album the same way I did the EP, and it wasn’t working right. Every song I wrote just felt lacklustre or the same. So to change it up, I had to change my methods, like the first song I wrote, I did two guitar parts first and then I sang, then produced over. That is very different to the EP which was songs first then lyrics. There are certain songs where before I recorded, I had a guitar riff and just wrote the song in a very traditional way, just chords and singing. Maybe loops would be first at times, and then they’d be built off of. Everything has been different.
It’s interesting because it sounds like you’ve really been adding more to your skill set as an artist, would you say that if you had a tool belt of music, that you’ve been adding towards it in the last while?
Yeah, definitely. I’ve been doing that my whole life honestly. I started in bands, not knowing how to produce or anything, but I could play guitar and from then I learned the bass just to add of that. Then I learned production, and that is forever useful. Now I’m working more to be an artist and learn what that entails and requires. Every time I learn something new I really take that and hold onto it until needed.
If you could create your ideal music creation space, where would it be and how would it look like?
That’s interesting, It would really just need to be a secluded place. A place I could disappear and a place I could be as loud as I want as late as I want. No interruptions, all the equipment I needed. Some food, drinks and a bathroom, that’s all I need.
Over the year you’ve posted some concerts you went to, like Paramore in the summer. Are there other shows you saw live that really had an impact upon you and maybe changed the way you approach live shows yourself?
Well, of course, the tour with Roy, he’s been super inspiring in general and watching the man work is amazing. He has a lot of fantastic ideas and he goes through with them. I saw Daisy as well, and they’re so good live. Solange was also amazing with her stage design and her choreography. I also saw Soccer Mommy pretty recently, and it wasn’t too extravagant but it was so well done and exciting to see as a fan of the music.
When you’re on stage, even something like the backyard show you mentioned earlier, what’s the emotion you’re trying to achieve and what is the mindset that you find yourself within at that moment?
When I played that private show, I realized all my songs were pretty mellow and hard to dance or move to. All except for Beachwood didn’t translate very well. So with this new project, I want them to translate really well live, to feel energetic, to feel lively. The songs are just fun. But I keep that emotion in and make sure that I don’t lose what made the earlier work so special and important.
What’s been the overall message you’re trying to pursue this new work and what is it you’re hoping to convey?
I kinda just want to tell my story. Or a story of mine. If people learn things from that, its great, but I’m just saying what happened in my experience. What I realized is that there’s a lot of shitty things that happened to me in my life, but the truth is that things could be a lot worse, so far they’ve been pretty good for the most part. While I had those tough days, I’m still here kicking it.
I apologize if it’s a repeated question, but with the topic of your story, what’s the meaning behind the stage name you’ve taken upon yourself?
It is and it isn’t part of my story in a way. A big part of that choice was that I wanted to separate myself from my old name and work. I wanted this to be super new. The name is taken from two names of people I am very inspired by. And it also, to me, sounds like the quintessential hot girl from a high school, the girl in the coming of age movie they all go after.
If you had a message to artists out there who may find themselves in the same space as you have previously found yourself within, those who may feel as unsure, what would be your lesson to pass on?
I think it doesn’t matter if you’re as confident or as talented as you want to be, as long as you recognize what sounds good to you, just put out the song. It doesn’t matter if you think your voice was bad, just keep progressing as an artist. If you wait for that progression you’ll never put stuff out, you’ll never be happy. With whatever you have right now, just start putting something, anything, out.
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