Editor’s Pick: Perfume Genius lights up the 9:30 Club

metroweekly.com:

New York Times once called Mike Hadreas, who goes by the performing moniker Perfume Genius, “the gay indie-rock equivalent of a swaggering Syvlester or Jobriath.”In 2015, Metro Weekly asserted “he may be our most unapologetic, unabashedly gay artist ever.” At the time, Hadreas was delivering a take-charge message about being “weird,” about being the outcast, about being gay — even about his penchant for wearing lipstick and jungle red nail polish.“I grew up my whole life thinking about my anxieties and my insecurities, thinking that the things that happened to me made me a wounded person,” Hadreas said in a cover interview shortly after releasing his third album Too Bright.“[I learned] you can be a nervous, weird, tiny, feminine man and be a fuckin’ badass.

It doesn’t need to be solved for you to be okay. I made a career out of trying to figure things out. But just because they’re not completely figured out doesn’t mean there’s something wrong.”It all still holds up, all these years later.