No sudden move premiere1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() Another Sivan cut “EASE” further explores this feeling of discomfort that can be pervasive to the LGBTQ community at large. I remember thinking it was the kind of queer music that I’d been waiting for! So sensitive and deeply feeling and still a straight up pop bop,” she says. It was a secret show that he was rehearsing for his next tour and he had just put out Blue Nieghbourhood. On the eclectic set, the artist opted for a mix of both standard love songs and tracks by queer artists - including Janelle Monae (“Primetime”), Troye Sivan (“My My My,” “EASE”), King Princess (“Holy”), Christine and the Queens (“iT”) and more. “It’s about reminding yourself over and over again that love is the best, and that if you’re queer you’ve figured out something about love, and that is a win.” “It’s so easy especially for queer people to get down on themselves and on love and the world’s perception, whether or not they’re being accepted, so I wanted to make a playlist of songs that help you beat that mind game,” she says. To celebrate Billboard’s Summer of Pride, Nunes also put together a Pride-themed playlist aimed at spreading the positivity and joy found in self-acceptance. The fruits of the process can be heard on UGHWOW, her most experimental offering to date, produced by Shruti Kumar, a Julliard-trained composer whose credits include Vampire Weekend, No Doubt, Alicia Keys, and Nas. Her third and most recent KickStarter effort “ Julia Nunes Makes Music” brought in $71,025 (from 2,409 backers) last year. I really don’t envy the mindset of a person who thinks its worthwhile to hate love in any form,” she says. “At this point I have an amount of levity about it. Nunes wasn’t fazed by the idea of “coming out” to her legions of loyal fans. That LP’s lead single “ Make Out” chronicled her embrace of her identify after coming out as queer leading up to the project’s roll out, and has netted over 3 million spins across platforms to date. Her follow-up campaign on the platform “ Julia Nunes + Feelings = New Album” pulled in almost double that - $134,403 (from 3,258 backers) - for her more introspective follow-up: 2015’s Some Feelings. 12 on the Heatseekers Album Chart, according to Nielsen Music. 9 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart and No. ![]() Nunes’ YouTube community have remained ultra loyal through the years, as both fans of her online content as well as financial investors in her career: in 2011, her first-ever Kickstarter campaign “ Julia Nunes would be nothing without me,” raised a whopping $77,888 (from 1,685 backers), which resulted in the release of 2012’s Settle Down, which peaked at No. Since the co-sign, the 30-year-old talent has collaborated with the likes of Rozzi Crane, A Great Big World and Jenny Owen Youngs, performed on Conan, and leveraged her online fandom into very real DIY success thanks to a sturdy crowdsourcing network via platforms like KickStarter, which she has used since 2011, and most recently Patreon, where she currently has 609 ‘patrons.’ ![]() (See this cute AF clip of Nunes performing “ Gone” with the star in 2009). In 2008, another A-lister - artist/producer Ben Folds - took notice. Reaching out to Nunes on Myspace after hearing her cover of his song “Gone,” Folds then tapped her to support him on a few dates on tour the following year. Her cover of Destiny’s Child’s “ Survivor” won the 2007 Bushman Music World Ukulele Video Contest, and actress Molly Ringwald (of The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles fame) shouted her out on Good Morning America as the reason that she took up the ukulele. Her version of the latter three bands’ “ Build Me Up, Buttercup,” “ Keep Fishing” and “ All My Loving” have netted 3.3 million, 1.3 million and 2.1 million views to date, respectively. It gets all kaleidoscope-y and crazy.”įrom her dorm room at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Nunes performed ukulele covers of tracks by Say Anything, Band Of Horses, The Foundations, Weezer and The Beatles beginning in 2007. (Laughs.) The video itself is kind of an acid trip. The song is about falling in and out of love really really fast and just lamenting how much of a trip it can be. “There is a woman who flashes in and out of the shot – sometimes I’m alone and then she’s in the bath with me. “I’m kind of in a memory battle with myself in a bathtub thinking about a woman,” she tells Billboard. In the clip, Nunes is in the middle of a bathtub-set existential crisis. Here Are the Lyrics to Nat King Cole's 'The Christmas Song' ![]()
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