Crush On Me, Sir Babygirl, Cassette

The pseudonymme of DIY pop diva/producer Kelsie Hogue, Sir Babygirl mixes and matches inspirations as sundry as Charli XCX, Hole, Hey Arnold!, and Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Into unabashedly bubblegum, unashamedly queer pop for a future free of genre boundary and the gender binary. Crush on Me dances through discovery-from opener "Heels," which sets Sir Babygirl as a bewildered, bisexual Cinderella bailing on the ball, all the way to the gentle self-courting of the closing title track. Along the way, Sir Babygirl rages through the agony and ecstasy of queer flirting ("Flirting with Her"), parties with old ghosts ("Haunted House"), trudges through social anxieties ("Everyone is a Bad Friend"), and basks in the glow of neon-lit nights out ("Pink Lite"). On the other side of the journey, Crush on Me ultimately celebrates the silliness and sanctity of a second adolescence, a rite so quintessential to the queer coming-of-age experience.