Pale Waves singer Heather Baron-Gracie has mentioned embracing her sexuality on the band’s forthcoming second album ‘Who Am I?’.
The band introduced their new album, out in February 2021 through Soiled Hit, final month alongside first single ‘Change’.
Speaking to NME in a new Big Read cover feature, Baron-Gracie mentioned the openness of the brand new album, and the way she now feels comfy discussing her sexuality.
“I used to be hiding my sexuality and holding it a secret as a result of I didn’t need individuals to evaluate me,” the singer advised NME of the period of the band’s first album, 2018’s ‘My Mind Makes Noises’.
“My relationship with my household was closed off for a very long time, and I noticed [Pale Waves drummer] Ciara’s household and the way they interacted with their dad and mom and I used to be like, ‘Nicely, that is nothing like mine’. Ciara was so open about being homosexual and so they had been so assured about and so happy with it and I checked out them and thought, ‘I want I might be like that.’”
Pale Waves, shot for NME by Jenn 5
“I used to be 23 once we did that first album, and I wasn’t assured about myself or with my sexuality,” she added. “I’ve stepped onto a path of eager to discover myself and I really feel assured in myself and proud to personal my sexuality. I really feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.”
Discussing physique points that adopted critical spinal surgical procedure she had as a teen, Baron-Gracie added: “I used to be drowning myself in alcohol as a result of I used to be too nervous to go on stage. I didn’t believe in myself. I used to be so mentally on the sting. Folks would say to me, ‘I really like your confidence; I want I had it’.
“Perhaps I got here off as being daring, however I had plenty of moments the place I simply hated myself or I couldn’t stand to take a look at myself. Folks suppose they know you simply by what they see while you carry out, however I must placed on a distinct character to impress and persuade individuals.”
Elsewhere within the Massive Learn function, the singer discussed her bandmates’ recovery process after their tour bus was concerned in a near-fatal road accident again in February. “I feel it’ll be one thing that may stick with them eternally,” she stated.
Watch Heather Baron-Gracie carry out new single ‘Change’ and previous favorite ‘Eighteen’ for NME Residence Classes above.
