Fancy Hagood on Reclaiming His Path as a Gay Country Artist, After Fleeting Pop Success: βI Do It for Queer People to See Themselves in a Storyβ
10 November 2024 at 19:21
Long before Chappell RoanΒ debuted her new country song, βThe Giver,β on βSNLβ and leaned into the camera to exert lesbian ownership of country-style expression, Fancy Hagood was committed to carving out space for queerness in country music. Earlier this year, he startedΒ coveringΒ Roanβs song βCasual,β joking that her unabashed lyrics had finally freed him up to [β¦]