Sunday Diva/Three From The Hip: Allie X

Sunday Diva/Three From The Hip:

Allie X

In my own personal big gay church there are many wings. In one such wing reside those who have forged careers by marching to a beat only they can hear. They are originals - unlike any other. Their styles created archetypes upon which many careers were built, but it all began with them. They created it. They own it.

Make way for Allie X!

This diva is just getting started. Oh, no... she's got quite a bit of history already, but you can tell that she's just getting started.

If she's borrowed from others, than she's only borrowed the best. For her unique vision of the world is solely of her making.

Musically, she's unafraid. She doesn't follow trends, she reimagines and combines sounds of the past which jive with her own peculiar sonic reverberations. There's so much going on and she alters focus so quickly that it's hard to pin her music down as any one thing. The nice thing is, it's always pulsing, always propulsive. 

As Bluesky Social poster HoneyNut Scooter put it: "Allie x is what happens when Kate Bush and Cyndi Lauper spit into a cup and then bury it in a dead girl's grave while Celine Dion dances around peeing on shit."

Visually, she's fearless! And fierce. It's as if she's trying to justify the existence of the body in relation to the world around it. Wrapping your head around what it is she has to say may take you a while, but the time is so well worth it and... you will be thoroughly entertained.

There's a DIY aspect to her stuff... something that she and Lady Gaga share in common.

I, for one, await every new release with the utmost anticipation. It's like layers of an onion, peel, reveal... and oh, so potent.

Not familiar. Head over to YouTube.

Allie X is waiting for you...

The gospel according to her?

Well, here are three from the hip, dropping from her lips.

The topic? The Equation of Existence

"I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence."

"I've always just felt like an outsider. I've always been made fun of in school ever since kindergarten. For me, when I started singing, that's when I started making "friends,". That's when people started taking an interest in me. That was the thing that made me likable, I guess. Maybe even lovable! I think that's really why I'm so hellbent on doing this as a career is because those are the moments where I felt at my most confident."

"I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information."

"I feel like in my life, when I've gone through during some traumatic things, I go so inward and I shut the world out and I become - I don't want to use the word selfish because it's hard circumstances, but when I go through hard stuff, it's difficult for me to communicate with other people, let alone stand up for other people's rights."

Weird World - Allie X

Not So Bad In LA - Allie X

All The Rage - Allie X

"I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in."

Casanova - Allie X feat. VÉRITÉ