July 14, 2019

Dorian Electra - using pop to show something a little bit different

“I wasn’t into the things girls were into, but I hated sports, or playing with GI Joe. I always identified with the word kid more than girl or boy” - pop performer Dorian Electra says in Guardian interview (liberal London paper call Electra "they"). Electra was born as a girl (Dorian Electra are real names, there's no surname, or age, at Electra's demand), but after wearing trademark moustache in a photoshoot for the first time - “I had never felt more like myself than I did in that picture". Any gender-box, actually, doesn't fit - “the core of my being is not gendered at all – even ‘gender fluid’ is a form of identity that can put somebody in a box”. So, the point is "about using pop, which I love, to show something a little bit different". Dorian Electra's album 'Flamboyant' is out next 17 July.