Project 3 - Queer pop selected singles

Queer Pop Selected Singles is an audio exploration into the ever-evolving genre of queer pop. This sonic body of work represents both publicly released and unreleased work by M the Myth as popular singles and highlights queer themes, traumas, and lyrics in traditional pop forms and structures. M the Myth is one of the founders of the queer pop genre and continues to be a leader in defining it. This work represents a continued effort to spread queer joy and uplift queer artists of color. All work was written and performed by M the Myth.

Cupid’s Bitch, Keep Breathing, Wrong Man - Excerpt - Play Entire Track.

Thirst Trap - Play 1:00-2:00 (press play, click the black bar and drag until about 1:00).

Saint - Play 0:00-1:15

Lyrics

Cupid’s Bitch

Music and Lyrics by M the Myth

Verse

My hands are holding tight to a new kind of warmth

A kindling of arrows ready to fire

He’s smoke whispering, “Are you ready?”

Before he pulls the trigger

Chorus

Love take aim

Pierce my wings

Slow cascade

I’m Cupid’s Bitch, Cupid’s Bitch

Verse

He reads the scars on my back like a map to a mythic world

A burst of light burning sweet and kind

I’m a bird and I fear I’m flying away

Before he pulls the trigger

Chorus

Love take aim

Pierce my wings

Slow cascade

Love take aim

I’m Cupid’s Bitch, Cupid’s Bitch

Keep Breathing

Music and Lyrics M the Myth

Verse

They held your face to the gun only for a minute

Next your father then your son, blood they kept spilling

Your daughter ran as bullets bursted your skull, angels sang

Rise from the grave, the dead don’t grow old

Chorus

Keep breathing, keep breathing

What are you gonna do when you're gone? When you're dead?

Keep breathing, keep breathing

What are you gonna do when you're gone? When you're dead?

Verse

And in your afterlife, your spirit cannot rest

Till your daughter makes her escape from war’s iron hands of death

She’ll fly across the world, her strength is born from your wake

And in her grave hour she’ll hear your voice say

Chorus

Bridge

If this was your last breath, breathe in the sunset

Chorus

Wrong Man

Music and Lyrics by M the Myth

Verse

Blindsided by your touch, your quicksand

Pulling me into your dark, a wasteland

Casket for my heart, you'll never play the part, no you're not meant for me

Pre-chorus

We should never be together

But here we are, heart to heart, hand in hand

Chorus

Never thought I'd say I was falling for the wrong one, falling for the wrong man

My body's caught in waves, lost beneath devotion, never was in my plan

Falling all the way, way, way

When will I understand? Always falling for the wrong one, falling for the wrong man

Verse

My father made mistakes, he played rough

Guess he's the reason why I love tough

Are you gold without the shine, deep inside a mine, why do I keep digging?

Pre-chorus

Chorus

Bridge

Can't catch my, Can't catch my, can't catch my breath down here

Chorus

Outro

When will I understand? When will I understand?

Falling for the wrong man

Thirst Trap

Music and Lyrics by M the Myth, Medusa, Matthew Montanez

Verse

Fooled by these boys, by their boxer bait

Tricked by the trade cause I love the chase

You’re just a photograph, camera obscura

The insecure, melting-quick, shinny-hollow-plastic dick

Prechorus

Who are you really?

I wanna know who, so, tell me, tell me

Who are you really? I gotta know who, so, tell me,

Chorus

Crawling for your show

Took the bait but I know

Who will have the last laugh

When I step into your thirst trap, you’re nothing but a thirst trap

Verse

Swiping past everyone but you

Your adonis mask for masc is quite taboo

Your filter sucked me into this danger

A godless need to fuck a perfect stranger

Prechorus

Chorus

Bridge

I made you want me, I made me too

Made me for you, made me for you, made me for you, made me for you

It's not only small talk is it? You're hoping for a visit

I'm nervous but won't admit it, won't admit it, won't admit it

Chorus

Saint

Music and Lyrics by M the Myth, Hybrid Vigor

Verse

Broke trust, should’ve known

Had enough, what are we fighting for

Your knife can’t cut me down

You can’t hurt me

You can’t hurt me but tell me if you want to

Prechorus

Rev your engine up, it’s a party (you know it, you know it right now)

Said you like it rough? I like it naughty (you know it, you know it right now)

Chorus

Pray a saint betray a cold playa

Give me mercy, goddamn

Pray a saint betray a cold playa

Gimmie mercy, goddamn

Verse

Poison to touch, your love

I am dying for, no more, but I can't

Help myself, what do you want to do

You can’t hurt me, but tell me if you want to

Prechorus

Chorus