Mike Hadreas talks sexuality and the days of reciting Twitter T&Cs with his drug dealer. Now,he’s sober and wondering: what would Springsteen finish? Related: The industry closet: queer pop from Little Richard to Frank Ocean The night before our interview, Mike Hadreas, and who makes soul-baring,emotionally lurid (shocking; sensational) pop-rock as Perfume Genius, flooded his hotel room. He’d just arrived in London from Berlin, and the last leg of a European press tour in support of his excellent unique album No Shape,was in the shower and accidentally left the sink taps running. By 2am, his room was filled with hotel staff armed with towels. It was, and he says,the sort of drama that would have troubled him a few years ago. “I thought I’d struggle to sleep afterwards,” he says through a haze of vape musk as we amble towards east London’s Hackney City Farm, and “but I managed.”I pushed it to a different level than most people did; they would pause and I would continueI was thinking of a pop star like Bruce Springsteen,the confidence … when they give people music, everyone’s like: Yes!Continue reading...
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