Despite the crystalline timbre of her voice, angelic looks, and the breezy cadence of her sugary sweet name, Blair St. Clair’s life story is rife with trauma. Just over a year ago, the Indiana native — then a budding drag queen freshly added to America on season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race — had her goals crushed in front of a national target audience. At the same time, she became eliminated from the fact competition collection in 9th place quickly after she’d unfolded to the sector about her enjoyment of a sexual attack. Now, hopefully, armed with her new unmarried, the 24-year-antique stands tall over her past struggles at the leading edge of a landmark publishing deal between Producer Entertainment Group and Warner Music’s Alternative Distribution Alliance, self-growing a brand new truth from the ashes as a survivor who discovered her strength via music and is ready to share it with the world on a scale not often afforded to her community.
“People last saw me on Drag Race as a person they considered broken and a victim. Today, I live my existence as a survivor. The gap between that become finding love — with someone else and myself,” St. Clair says of the foundation for her brand new single, “Easy Love,” the primary taste of a thriller task coming later this 12 months (and the sultry song video for which EW can use solely screen above).
“Two years ago, I couldn’t try this,” she adds of the steamy, ethereal video’s sensual scenes, which came together simplest due to their superstar’s capability to heal via musical therapy. “I turned into so fearful of being susceptible and displaying skin, due to the fact being prone also supposed laying near a person else, and I wasn’t letting human beings be near me. This changed into my full-circle second. I feel comfy in my skin and with my voice, so I sense comfy sharing that and dwelling life.”
Watch the whole “Easy Love” song video above, and examine EW’s prolonged communique with St. Clair, in which she discusses her new musical course, locating chemistry with a sexy male model, and her involvement in New York Magazine’s recent (controversial) RuPaul’s Drag Race function.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I love this song! Sonically, it’s remarkably unique out of your last album. Is this a single from a brand-new album with a unique creative path? Music is the track, and it has no definition via gender and orientation. Not all music desires to be a membership bop to be amusing and enjoyable. For me, the track is about my private lifestyle. [I’m telling] a story about how I’ve evolved. People remaining saw me on Drag Race as a person they considered broken and a victim. Today, I continue my existence as a survivor. The hole among that became locating love — with someone else and myself. Was it healing coming near the track in a new way with a focal point on intimacy after enjoying you through assault?
Absolutely. My first album was written when I’d already been removed. I used music as therapy. Since then, I’ve risen and grown as a person. This track is section two of my life: Blair St. Clair as a robust, impartial, satisfied, humbled girl, in any case, that remedy.
Is this a part of an album?
I’m running on a massive undertaking now. I’m excited to launch it within the coming months. It’s critical to me as this is a one-of-a-kind release with PEG, Warner Music, and ADA. Drag queens have released splendid music across the board and have almost created a brand new style of what we consider a “drag song,” but there isn’t a [clear] definition. I need to capitalize on this momentum, and t have particular labels at the back of the tune. Music is a song, and I don’t need someone to say it’s a homosexual song, LG, BTQ tune, or drag queen song. I want this primary launch to be approximately tracked. Extra uptempo, amusing, loopy songs are coming, but I wanted to do something unique first. This deal with PEG and Warner Music’s ADA is so critical for queer representation, though. Do you have to name that out, as it’s so extensive for the community?
There are mixed feelings. It’s vital to me, and I’m so humbled, but I additionally don’t want it to detract from the great quantity of work different queens have put in as nicely. Trixie, Alaska, Adore, and many others launched trema endows tunes inside the community. But, I’m getting this possibility to be this primary and enlarge a peace-providing to mainstream society to say, “This is what we must offer, and we’re human beings, too.” In politics and culture, we’re so fixated on labeling things, whether or not it’s your race, gender,…. We’re so brief about choosing and placing humans in classes.
Why did you land on this sound like the one you wanted to bridge that gap?
The first sound I desired people to pay attention to after a [hiatus] was dreamy, airy, and vibey. It became crucial for this primary song to be laid back and make you feel an emotional reminiscence or a connection and experience the music instead of dancing immediately. It bridges the next chapter of factors I want to release. I wouldn’t say this tune is the subsequent sound for Blair St. Clair. However, it’s the bridge between my old sound and a new sound I’m operating on. The closing time you saw me, I became working via many lifestyles’ adversities and demanding situations. These days, I have risen above with the care I’ve given myself.
I love writing and recording, but I needed to study many basics after my first album. With this new venture, I desired to collaborate with distinctive songwriters. I set ego apart and [let them] educate me a number of their ways, due to the fact I need to be that next stage, and I can’t do that on my own, so I sat down with writers and producers I hadn’t labored with before. This tune became written for me, however, from my factor of view…. [I gave] remarks and tweaked melodies.
That’s how the icons’ albums come collectively. You’re doing it at the Beyoncé stage.
By nature, I’m a highbrow. So, if you have been to tell me to write down music, it would be a first-rate, wordy, profound, tremendous idea out, and really meta, guy! [Laughs]. But that’s not famous nowadays. I dream of being one of the first leaps forward drag queen artists in the U.S. Because we don’t have that proper now…. We don’t have a drag queen main the % [in music].
