Queer sounds: our writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ songs

For Pride month, Guardian writers have singled out their favourite LGBTQ+ songs, from Pet Shop Boys to Frank Ocean

Valentine, the second album by the Baltimore indie-rock musician Snail Mail, AKA Lindsey Jordan, is a black hole of anxiety and desperation, a record that revels in the seamy, depressive aftermath of a breakup. Forever (Sailing) is the grand, gorgeous centrepiece of the album, an aching power ballad that finds Jordan singing, over grimy trip-hop production, about a relationship too toxic to last: “So much destruction / Look at what we did / That was so real / And you don’t just forget.” Across Valentine, Jordan rarely lets herself combust like she does on Forever (Sailing) – it’s a huge, dramatic sucker punch, a pop-star turn planted right in the middle of an indie record. Its genesis is a testament to the gay art of dredging up forgotten pop songs: Forever (Sailing)’s chorus is lifted from You and I, a chintzy 70s pop track by the forgotten Swedish diva Madleen Kane. But where the original track is a camp fantasia, Jordan plays it totally straight – finding intense pathos among the chintz. Shaad D’Souza

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