For sapphic musicians, music isn’t just an expression of their reality, but it’s also a protest.
There’s a certain softness listening to Pixie Labrador sing about romance — her love songs overflow with poetic metaphors “Songs flow and form with me as I go through life, and a lot of life is just figuring things out along the way,” she shares over Zoom. For this reason, the singer-songwriter’s discography is filled with intimate retellings of her own experiences as a woman loving women or queer artist.
“People call sapphic as sapphic because there’s something about it unique to our culture, in loving women to women or lesbian relationships, that we need people to pay attention to that part of our art,” says Yassy Tolcidas, another sapphic singer-songwriter and poet who goes by the name Yassy T. Like Pixie Labrador, their music also details love and heartbreak through a sapphic lens. In our conversation, they reference Pixie’s “Varsity Crush,” a song about falling in love with a varsity volleyball player — an experience that many young queer women experience, especially in high school. The reception to “Varsity Crush” from the sapphic community was palpable, and many lauded her for putting into song the yearning that queer women felt and continue to feel.
“While I was still building my brand as a queer musician, new listeners would go into my music with a heteronormative mentality and automatically assume that I write from a man’s perspective, just because of the pronouns I use when referring to a muse in a song. It’s also come to my attention that sometimes, people see my songs from a platonic or a familial perspective, when that’s such a stretch,” Pixie explains. “It’s like people will justify my music with anything but what it actually is.
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