“We're all so connected and we're so different, but we're so similar in so many ways.” June cover star Hayley Kiyoko isn’t around only for Pride — her music is for people who feel lost and struggle with mental health 🌈 ✨ ➡️
Even after all her success, Kiyoko doesn’t feel like she’s arrived. There are days when she wakes up less confident than the day before. She has not figured everything out. “'Arrived' is a weird word, because I don’t feel satisfied,” she says. “'Arrived' has this layer of satisfaction. I do feel satisfied with where I'm at, at this point in my life, and I am proud of who I am today. But I feel like I'm still just beginning to feel like that resonates.
While she’s here, wherever that may be, Kiyoko intends to keep telling stories through her own lens about women who love women, not through the male gaze she was so exposed to in her youth. “What I love about directing is, I love giving a stage or platform for someone else to shine,” she says of being in charge of the vision of her music videos. The video for “For the Girls” is proof of that: In the dating show of her dreams, people from all walks of life get a shot at love with Kiyoko.
Kiyoko is still imagining the bedroom from her childhood. But it wasn’t all boy band posters with curled corners or fashion designs with smudged lines. Her trophies also reflected the faces of the rock band No Doubt. Gwen Stefani stared her down, and Kiyoko found a kinship in their shared edginess. She didn’t want to bethe members of *NSYNC, she wanted to be them. She dreamed of her “No Strings Attached” moment in the Staples Center, drinking up love from the audience.
The walls of her current bedroom are covered in a lot less muscle, decorated instead with Monet-type paintings. She’s drawn to the colors, the way they can calm, heal, and inspire. A painting of Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Montmartre takes pride of place, done by an artist who sat at the foot of the church and let their brush consume the canvas. Every night Kiyoko lies in her bed and stares at the vibrant textures and muted swirls on her walls.
She thinks about music and her fans, and hopes that they’ll support her as she continues to grow in this lifetime. She thinks about the Hayleys of eras past and the ones who might exist in the future. They coalesce into one: a Hayley Kiyoko who wants to inspire her fans to chase their dreams, get the girl they like, and live a life of courage; a Hayley underpinned by one mission to “ignite hope.” A tapestry of experiences and expectations, now a panorama for all to see.
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