An already queer experience is made queerer thanks to both LGBTQ+ and allied icons like Brandy, Tyra Banks, TS Madison, Chaka Khan, and, of course, Hall’s signature Broadway vocals. “But it was uncharted territory as far as I know.”įull of club-ready bangers that seem tailor-made for Pride season, “Femuline” is Hall’s “open love letter to the LGBTQ community,” he says.
And that was very interesting for me to explore,” Hall says. “It may exist, but I’ve never heard a song talking about how you can be both: you can be a prince, you can be a princess you can be the bride, you can be the groom. The difference this time, he says, was that there was no “pre-existing blueprint.” That theme serves as the perfect narrative for an artist who has made a music career out of reimagining classic stories like “The Wizard of Oz” and “Cinderella” through his own creative lens. The album’s title, “Femuline,” is exactly as it seems: the blending of feminine and masculine attributes to create a greater, queerer whole. Todrick Hall is serving bitch but making it, as he says on his latest record, fashòn.
