In honor of Delight Month, Atwood Journal has invited artists to take part in a collection of essays reflecting on identification, music, tradition, inclusion, and extra.
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Immediately, pop artist and virtuoso pianist Micah McLaurin shares a particular playlist of songs you’ll hear at most homosexual disco events as part of Atwood Journal’s Delight Month collection!
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Micah McLaurin skilled on the Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard and has carried out as soloist with main orchestras world wide as an acclaimed live performance pianist. Discovering a house in queer tradition upon shifting to New York, McLaurin harnessed his virtuosic expertise to have a good time every little thing that makes him distinctive and, in that course of, launched his viral “Rhapsody in Gaga” piano medley earlier than bridging the classical and pop worlds together with his instrumental album Diamonds which was recorded with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra alongside an all-star group.
Incomes world reward from Rolling Stone, Paper Journal, V Journal, Self-importance Honest, WWD, Marie Claire, Web page Six, Queerty, Delight.com, and extra for his string of pop gems together with his critically acclaimed single “Don’t Give Up On Love” and fan favourite and fan favourite “Name Me” which is up for Greatest Artwork Director on the Berlin Music Video Awards, McLaurin has cemented himself as an artist to look at. Collaborating with a few of the trade’s hottest producers, McLaurin is making music in his personal voice about moving into your individual and embracing freedom, individuality, and sexuality.
Kicking off Delight Month with a bang, Micah launched the official dance remix for his single “Glad,” reimagined by chart-topping DJ and producer duo Till Daybreak (Chappell Roan, Ava Max, Agnes), alongside a surprising visible shot on the iconic Château de la Triboulette (PRESS HERE to look at). This previous weekend, Micah dazzled at Chicago Delight the place he handled the gang to a set of fan favorites, together with acclaimed disco bop “Don’t Give Up On Love,” steamy anthem “Name Me,” and chart-topping membership banger “Baboom” which climbed into the High 10 of Music Week’s Pop Membership chart and catapulted into Hypeddit’s High 100 Downloads Progressive Home chart.
His newest single, “Keep in mind Me” – a tune for heat summer time nights – is out now. Created in collaboration with A-list producer Fernando Garibay (Girl Gaga, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue), the Latin-infused home monitor, “Keep in mind Me,” finds McLaurin extending his vary and shimmers with the unshakeable confidence that you simply’ve made your mark and also you’ll be remembered without end.
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by Micah McLaurin
Many of those songs I grew up listening to, particularly ABBA and Girl Gaga, they usually stole my coronary heart.
I might get butterflies in my abdomen listening to these songs. I wished to decide on them for Delight Month as, to me, Delight is about not residing in suppression, being allowed to be the individual you’re, even within the face of scrutiny.
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“Don’t Give Up On Love” – Micah McLaurin
This tune is my very own, sure, however I genuinely like listening to it as a result of it’s basic disco vibes with a contemporary take. It seems like a summer time disco tune! It’s about not giving up on your self and your identification and what makes you distinctive, particularly for these in the neighborhood who needed to cover or attempt to change who they had been.
“Unhealthy Romance” – Girl Gaga
My favourite tune ever and each time it performs within the celebration or membership, I’m beaming with pleasure. This tune has such an awesome construct with an excellent higher launch. It’s cathartic and euphoric to listen to it on the dance ground. I first heard it after I was 15 in a membership in Italy and everybody began singing alongside. I simply bear in mind feeling a lot energy within the room from one tune.
“Vogue” – Madonna
What’s extra Delight than this? It’s about ballroom tradition, it’s Madonna, and it’s so funky and can by no means get outdated. The chords are actually complicated and the tune has an actual musical monitor which contribute to its timelessness – in addition to Madonna’s character and supply!
“Final Dance” – Donna Summer time
This tune is so emotional and joyful with somewhat melancholy, however celebratory. It’s so Delight.
“Dancing Queen” – ABBA
I’ll by no means get uninterested in this tune. It stands the check of time, its genius writing, it’s just like the pop music bible for me. It’s so easy nevertheless it actually elates while you take heed to it. It’s so musical however groovy and disco all on the similar time.
“Rasputin” – Boney M.
This tune is so enjoyable and camp, the strings are fireplace, the voices and the association are distinctive, and Rasputin is a humorous title and topic to have a tune about… like, why? What’s the explanation?!
“Imagine” – Cher
Cher, Imagine… Do I must say extra? I don’t know why I affiliate this tune with Delight, however I simply do. Perhaps it’s the title? It simply… is!
“Padam Padam” – Kylie Minogue
When this got here out, you’d go from one bar to the subsequent membership and, as you left one place, Padam was enjoying, and as you entered the subsequent, Padam was enjoying. It was omnipresent in the neighborhood. I’m shocked it didn’t chart within the US. This tune is so catchy and fashionable and I really like the manufacturing.
“Gimme Gimme Gimme” – ABBA
“Hung Up” – Madonna
The instrumental hook in that is so iconic and I hear it over time at so many events, and it really works each time! The unique motif got here from ABBA, however Madonna additionally made an awesome new tune with it!
“Keep in mind Me” – Micah McLaurin
My latest tune. It’s impressed by ’90s home, with somewhat little bit of Spanish affect. I need myself and my music to be remembered, and pleasure is the time to be your self and let others bear in mind you!
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