'Thinkin Bout You' was released as a single on April 17, 2012.įrank Ocean's piercing falsetto on its own (''Cause I've been thinkin' 'bout forevaaaa') is one of the most perfect, memorable moments in music history. 'And that's where 'Girls Like Girls' came from.' 'They were like, 'All right, if you felt fearless and weren't scared, what would you say?'' Kiyoko told Billboard. 'In a session with co-songwriters Owen Thomas and Lily May-Young, Kiyoko was asked a very simple question: What's something that scares you? In that moment, she came out of the closet to her co-workers, and found her voice,' wrote Billboard's Stephen Daw, in an essay that dubbed 'Girls Like Girls' a defining song of the 2010s. The song 'Girls Like Girls' was born.'Īlthough Kiyoko is now known by fans as 'Lesbian Jesus,' she wrote her defining song before she had publicly come out as a lesbian. 'Not that I ever expected any of them to like me back, but I just felt comforted being around them, even if I could never date them. I got involved in student council because of girls,' Hayley Kiyoko wrote in an essay for Paper.
'Growing up, everything I did was always about girls. 'Girls Like Girls' is a synth-pop paradise of prolonged eye contact, stolen kisses, and simmering intimacy.
'Girls Like Girls' was released as a single on June 24, 2015.
