Towa Bird opens up about meeting her 'L Word' heroes, stanning The Beatles, touring with Renee Rapp, and being a part of pop's new wave of LGBTQ+ stars.
Meeting her heroes? Check. Releasing one of the year’s coolest albums? Check. Becoming a queer role model? She’s up for the job.. “For real, that was my North Star,” Bird says of the iconic lesbian lothario . The 25-year-old has plenty in common with each of her icons. Like Hendrix, she can absolutely shred on the guitar. Like the Purple One, she effortlessly pulls off androgynous glam.
Bird has also opened for Rapp and played in her touring band, which means she was there at Coachella this year when thecast reunited onstage to introduce Rapp’s set. “I was immediately flushed in the face, tripping over my words, feeling sweaty in my palms,” Bird says of meeting Moennig and her co-stars. “I regressed to that 12-year-old version of myself that was closing my bedroom door and hoping that no one would hear the sex scenes coming from my laptop.
That all might sound intimidating on paper, but Bird is warm and easy to talk to, with a sly sense of humor that’s on full display when a pickle gets stuck in her throat. “Oh my God, I love that,” she says, eyes watering. “It’s so humbling. ‘Pardon me, I’m choking on a pickle.’ How beautifully ironic.”
“These songs are very intimate. I’m showing parts of myself to my audience that I haven’t even shown some of my closer friends.”be myself, or else what the f*ck? I would be absolutely miserable. I would be just self-sabotaging if I just wasn’t completely honest,” she admits. She knows how much the current wave of queer stars would have meant to her younger self. “It feels really great to be a part of something much larger.
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