Aural Fixation: Openly Gay Artists

Now that I’ve sufficiently ranted to my coworkers about last night’s AWFUL episode of Glee (“I’m what they call a bear-cub”), it’s time for another installment of our new series Aural Fixation! This is the part of the week where we present you with a bunch of songs and ask you which one you’d play during a hook-up or, ugh, “making love”.

Today we’ve rounded up six openly gay artists, ranging everywhere from straight-up dance pop to experimental indie wizardry. Your options are as follows: Garçon Garçon, Rostam Batmanglij, Matt Zarley, Manila Luzon, Cazwell and Kele Okereke. Got it? Good… Now let’s get to voting!

– Dewitt

To listen to today’s selections, see more pics and cast your vote, follow the JUMP:

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Garçon Garçon – Stay In Touch: The boys from Australian electro-pop duo Garçon Garçon finally dropped the music video for their official debut single “Stay In Touch”. Though they previously promised that it would be “more than likely” they’d be wearing very little clothing in this clip, we’re going to forgive them because… PIRATES! MERMAIDS! ADORABLENESS! Let’s just hope they forgive us for embedding their video between two slutty ass pics.

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Rostam Batmanglij – Don’t Let It Get To You: For those who aren’t in the know, Rostam Batmanglij is the openly gay keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist for indie band (and anti-hipster punchline) Vampire Weekend. He’s been branching out into production and a solo venture, and this is one of his latest releases. I’d fuck to it, but that’s only because I have a hardcore boner for Rostam Batmanglij.

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Matt Zarley – Perfect: Truth be told, “Perfect” sounds like one of the Backstreet Boys’ 1999 castoffs. We’re not necessarily saying that’s a bad thing. This is a vast improvement over Zarley’s previous single “WTF”, though there’s no chance the music video will be anywhere near as sexy.

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Manila Luzon – Hot Couture: With no disrespect to Pandora’s “Cooter”, Manila Luzon is the first Drag Race contestant to recapture the magic of RuPaul’s 1992 dance hit “Supermodel (You Better Work)”, all whilst adding a modern edge that would sound appropriate next to Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias or Rihanna on the radio. If you like it, be sure to grab the full song on iTunes! Wigs don’t come cheap, y’all.

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Cazwell f/ Peaches – Unzip Me: Don’t be surprised when the music video for this song features a bunch of hairless, muscular go-go boys. We’ve got to admit this isn’t the worst Cazwell song we’ve ever heard. At least the production’s kind of interesting? Sort of reminds us of Madonna-collaborator Martin Solveig.

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Kele Okereke f/ Lucy Taylor – What Did I Do: The former Bloc Party frontman churns out another electro-tinged solo single. There’s a little more Lucy than Kele on this song, but whatever… He’s shirtless!