But that doesn’t make you any less queer.Music grows and changes every year, and with this new era of the digital age, our general idea of what “good” music is has definitely changed. You might be in relationships with women you might have relationships with men at some point. “Where it’s like, yeah, you’re attracted to everybody.
“It’s important for people to hear my experience, and sexuality is a spectrum and that people can exist where I exist,” he says. That shame, Luppen surmises, stems from a multitude of sources: his childhood spent steeped in Mormonism’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, society’s increasingly antiquated view of sexuality as a binary construct and the toxic judgement sometimes placed on queer men.Ĭombatting those wellsprings of shame is exactly why the singer-songwriter is ready to come out now.
“I think it comes as a surprise to a lot of people, just ’cause people have seen me publicly with women, you know? But I do think it’s an important part of myself that I could do a better job of embracing and not feeling shameful for.” “It’s definitely scary to talk about because I don’t want to say the wrong thing,” the rocker (who’s currently dating indie pop darling Raffaella) admits. How Two 'High School Musical' Actors Brought Disney's First Queer Love Song to Life After thoughtful consideration, he settles on labeling himself “queer” before disclosing that - since he’s consistently been in exclusively long-term, committed relationships with women throughout his adult life - he doesn’t want his coming out to be perceived as pandering or queerbaiting in any way. Luppen is cautious when expounding on how he identifies, pausing frequently to weigh his responses and repeatedly apologizing for seeming nervous. But it also feels like I’m not straight enough.” As far as, like, identifying in any which way, I think I’ve been scared to accept my own queerness ’cause it felt like I wasn’t queer enough. “But it’s definitely something I think I’ve known about myself since I was a kid, and I’ve always been scared to be outright with it…. “I haven’t really talked about it in an interview before,” he reveals. For the first time, he’s speaking publicly about finding his place in the LGBTQIA+ community. If that dropped tomorrow, it would be, like, the coolest thing.”)ĭespite having a rather belated personal relationship to Britney’s music, the Princess of Pop’s fraught relationship with her father made it into Hippo Campus’ new song after Luppen sat down to watch The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears.īritney Spears Thanks Fan For Support After Conservatorship Hearing: 'You Have No Idea What It…Īfter applauding Britney for using her voice, Luppen points out that “Bad Dream Baby” also marks a “more personal approach” to his own songcraft, and that vulnerability has spilled over into his life outside of the studio. “So it was more of just like, I would kind of hear it on the radio.” It wasn’t until years later, as an adult, that Luppen would dive into what he calls his “Britney phase” consequently, he now regards “Toxic” as “one of the best songs ever.” (“I think the production on that is so incredible,” he gushes about the icy second single from 2003’s In the Zone. “Being raised Mormon, I wasn’t allowed to consume a lot of things that were sort of controversial,” the 26-year-old says, referring to Britney’s catalog of hits and sexually charged music videos. Unlike most millennials, Luppen admits the pop icon and her music were “pretty peripheral” during his fundamental teenage years, due in large part to a strict Mormon upbringing in suburban Minneapolis after his mother converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was just four or five years old. (“I’m worried about Britney Spears/ It’s pretty f–ked up how her dad runs her life/ I wish my dad was more involved in mine/ But not like that, really not like that, yeah,” the singer croons in an unassuming baritone on the second verse.)
The manic banger is at turns both deeply personal and wildly zany, bouncing from the death of Luppen’s dog to ruminations on Britney Spears and her battle to end the legal conservatorship she’s lived under for the past 13 years - a period that almost perfectly matches up with the late Cookie’s lifetime. His romantic Valentine’s Day plans ruined, Luppen channeled that resurfaced well of trauma into music, eventually birthing “Bad Dream Baby,” the lead single from Hippo Campus’ upcoming EP Good Dog, Bad Dream, which is slated for release Aug.
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