E09: Mr Slade: Growing Up Gay, Rupaul in the Mainstream Media and Musical Inspirations

Being surrounded by people that accept you, like you and encourage you to be you, and learning to love yourself and knowing others love you is the best feeling in the entire world. LGBTQ artist Mr Slade experienced this love and acceptance when he was 16 and now uses his music to give a little bit of that acceptance back to the gay community.

For me, I needed this interview, and that’s something that I didn’t realise until I was writing this episode description. I found that I suddenly had a connection to the queer kids who came before me. I learned a bit more about my own gay history, and while on the face of it, this is just an interview with a musician, under it all, there is gay 16-year-old me standing in disbelieve that I’m both so open and listening to someone and chatting with someone who’s music goes against every part of his catholic conservative upbringing

We talked about growing up gay and Mr Slade’s musical inspirations. Like so many who aspire to make music, it usually comes from being “bored” in their everyday jobs. While working his boring retail job, MR. Slade’s music career began. His goal is to create music that was fun and high energy but also aggressive, inspired mainly by music from the 80s and 90s, taking elements from that era and giving it a more updated interpretation.

Time stamps

01:51: How shit was that retail job?

04:43: Music is the constant in all of our lives.

06:25: Gay culture and mainstream media.

09:46: Aging in the gay community.

14:26 Mr Slade’s musical inspirations.

18:01: Finding yourself.

20:35: Deep dive into Mr Slade’s music.

35:12: The questionnaire

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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mr-slade/1521977045

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2TqQ9VJggVOUwAGXYt19QL

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrslade77

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9AVo6jlsc8

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