A quarter of a century ago, before acts like Orville Peck and Brandi Carlile, Lang was already mixing queer and country
Cowboy boots and bolo ties are all the rage right now and, thankfully, like a rhinestone capelet swaying in the breeze, music isn’t far behind with its reappraisal of the country genre, spearheaded by queer artists and women. But this is not the first time the genre has been subverted; 27 years ago, fan of soft tailoring and lowercase letters kd lang released Constant Craving, a song so suggestive of lesbian longing that it became the sapphic anthem for unrequited love.
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