Girl Gaga and Gigi Perez are locked in a brilliant queer chart battle. (YouTube)
The battle for primary on the UK’s official music chart is getting gayer, as Girl Gaga’s “Illness” goes head-to-head with Gigi Perez’s queer love story, “Sailor Tune”.
Girl Gaga’s twisted new observe “Illness”, which critics have already dubbed one among her perfect singles, may properly be on its strategy to hitting the highest spot, in keeping with the Official Charts. It might grow to be her seventh primary hit within the nation, following on from 2020’s “Rain On Me”.
That mentioned, it’s at present sat at quantity three, behind Bruno Mars and ROSÉ’s collaboration “APT.” at quantity two, whereas TikTok sensation “Sailor Tune” by 24-year-old Florida-based star, Gigi Perez is holding sturdy at primary.
For these not within the know, Gigi Perez’s “Sailor Tune” – and the artist herself – have been on the rise for fairly a while. Initially beginning out as a TikTok star, Perez was signed to Interscope (mockingly, Girl Gaga’s label) in 2021 after her music “Generally (Backwood)” went viral.
Regardless of the web fame, Perez’s success within the UK was restricted – till now. “Sailor Tune”, which was launched again in July, has been regularly climbing the charts, starting at quantity 53 upon its launch.
Initially of October it entered the highest 10 at quantity six, then rose to quantity three, and final week, to quantity two.
If Perez does handle to assert the primary spot, we doubt LGBTQ+ ally Gaga would thoughts: in any case, “Sailor Tune” is a reasonably raunchy, people ode to lesbian love, Perez’s relationship to faith, and girls who appear like Anne Hathaway. Mom Monster could be proud.
“I noticed her within the rightest manner, wanting like Anne Hathaway,” goes the music’s opening lyrics, earlier than getting just a little extra express.
“Laughing whereas she hit her pen and coughed, and coughed, after which she got here as much as my knees begging, ‘child, would you please do the belongings you mentioned you’d do to me, to me?’”
On the music’s touching refrain, Perez sings about her mum worrying about her being in a queer relationship and the way it will impression God’s view of her, however Perez guarantees that being with a girl she loves is all of the blessing she wants.
“Oh, gained’t you kiss me on the mouth and love me like a sailor? And while you get a style, are you able to inform me, what’s my flavour,” the music’s refrain goes.
“I don’t imagine in God, however I imagine that you simply’re my saviour. My mother says that she’s anxious, however I’m lined on this favour, and once we’re getting soiled, I overlook all that’s fallacious.”
The music’s lyric equating her accomplice to a “saviour” whipped up a storm with some right-wing Christian zealots, who demanded that she change the phrases.
But Perez stood her floor, explaining: “I by no means needed to take into account whether or not or not I used to be going to vary my music trigger it was by no means up for dialogue.
“My songwriting is just not a democracy, and that applies to each different artist’s work.
“I’m not altering the lyrics to ‘Sailor Tune’. The piece is written the way in which that it’s for a purpose, and I put it in there precisely because it was meant to be written,” she continued.
“I’m actually blissful that it’s related with so many individuals, and truthfully, it’s as much as you. It’s as much as you what it means to you. I wrote it for what it means to me.”
Music lovers will have the ability to see how “Illness” and “Sailor Tune” have fared on the UK charts this Friday, 1 November.
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