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Meg Stalter Releases 'GAY' as Club-Ready Pride Single

Leaning into club-ready dance-pop, the single uses TikTok promotion to position Stalter as a queer-facing pop artist ahead of a summer debut album.

Overview

  • The song is the second preview of Stalter's debut album Crave, which a press release says is due this summer and will explore identity and desire through an offbeat pop lens.
  • Stalter promoted the release with a TikTok teaser in which she announced the midnight drop and danced to a snippet of the track.
  • The press release credits Meg Stalter and Jesse Thomas as the songwriters and lists Stalter, Thomas, and Matias Mora as producers for all songs on Crave.
  • A prior single, 'Prettiest Girl in America,' and its remix reportedly earned roughly 940,000 streams in their first month and more than 4.4 million TikTok sound views, signaling early audience traction.
  • Coverage frames 'GAY' as a Pride Month, club-ready anthem that leans on bimbo-core and early-2000s dance-pop tropes, a move that could broaden Stalter's reach from comedy and TV into queer nightlife and pop circuits as the album and performances roll out.