The search for the ever-elusive "bop" is hard. Playlists and streaming-service suggestions can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This week, in honor of Pride Month, we've been celebrating Queer Music Week by highlighting how TikTok has beco..

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By Heather Beattie Trixie Mattel is at the airport — again. Immediately after wrapping up a five-week tour across Europe, the multi-talented drag icon is briefly headed residence to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before plunging back inside a relentless schedule that includes launching her TV series Trixie Motel, embarking on the next leg of the Trixie & Katya Live tour, and releasing h..

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By Grant Sharples From the initial few moments of “With U,” cascading synth arpeggios crest a large wall of sound. It’s not a texture that you’d usually friend with Soccer Mommy, the performing/recording sobriquet that Nashville native Sophie Allison uses to create ‘90s-inspired indie rock. On amazing, guitar-forward records like 2018’s Clean and 2020’s Color Theory, Al..

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By Sam Manzella Muna knew they were onto something when they penned “Silk Chiffon.” They just didn’t learn that something was a queer cultural reset. Speaking to MTV News through the video call from separate locations, bandmates Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson are at once elated and exhausted. The Los Angeles-based synthpop trio have been putting their feeling..

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By Carson Mlnarik On March 25, 2021, listeners were captivated, aroused, and scandalized by a rapper’s shameless descriptions of gay sex. “Shoot a child in your mouth while I’m ridin’,” Lil Nas X quips on “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” complete with a uncensored visual in which he makes out with himself in the Garden of Eden and, naturally, gives Satan a lap dance. C..

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By Lucas Villa Blue Rojo is leaving an eye catching mark on Latin pop music. Because the Mexican-American singer keeps it up and continues to take the genre to new places by fusing seemingly disparate elements of electronic and punk with reggaeton, he also lyrically pushes boundaries as an openly gay musician. Seeking to find himself immediately after a couple of years of fleeting fa..

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In honor of Pride Month, MTV News set out to spotlight the LGBTQ+ artists creating the contemporary anthems that soundtrack queer spaces and report on the new frontiers in today's streaming landscape helping them to do so. As we did last year, we've also set out to profile emerging LGBTQ+ artists and celebrate customary ones making waves. Welcome to Queer Music Week. By Max Freedman..

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By Rob LeDonne On its surface, Big Freedia’s “Chasing Rainbows” sounds like any other pop anthem. With a hummable melody, sparkling production, and earworm chorus featuring fellow star Kesha, track has the freedom to explode out of speakers on musicality alone. However zero in on the confection’s personalized lyrics and you’ll discover they center on topics of sexuality, e..

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Kesha kicked off 2020 by dropping an eclectic assortment of bombastic dance-pop and folk-tinged ballads. Indeed, High Road, her fourth album, featured collaborations with artists as diverse as Big Freedia, Brian Wilson, Sturgill Simpson, and even her former dollar-sign Ke$ha persona. "I'll just keep on doing what I do best," she sings on "Shadow," before specifying what, exactly, that..

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it may not be 20GayTeen anymore, nevertheless Hayley Kiyoko is still on top. As she took the virtual stage at Pride Live's Stonewall Day to perform her gauzy take on The Killers's "Mr. Brightside" and ladies Like Females the artist known to her fans as Lesbian Jesus Christ made sure to shout out her peers in the LBGTQ+ community as she stood in front of a rainbow. "I'm so overjoyed o..

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"I want each person in the LGBTQIA+ community to know that I treasure everything that you are, and everything you do to create this world more inclusive, more creative, and more beautiful." That's how Demi Lovato put her personalized message of hope, optimism, and resilience while addressing the virtual crowd for Stonewall Day, the superstar Pride Live event honoring the anniversary ..

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