Rising star Jordy reimagines Nine Days’ 2000 hit 'Story of a Girl' with a queer twist (and the band tells us they're all in!)
of Nine Days heard that someone wanted to interpolate his band’s biggest hit “Absolutely ,” he was “a bit apprehensive.” “After all, I. “So the song means something special to me beyond being one of those earworms.”, the rising queer pop star who samples “Absolutely” on his single “Story of a Boy,” out Friday. When Hampson met the singer and learned his story, Hampson was immediately convinced that he was the right person to give the song a new meaning.
Growing up, Jordy would listen to the 2000 classic and change the song’s lyrics to “boy” instead of “girl” as he came to terms with his sexuality. It was his way of connecting to a heterosexual love song but making it his own. “At that age, I yearned to feel free,” he tells. “I was young and confused and closeted, but listening to music and singing was always my escape.”
“I never felt ‘manly’ enough to be taken seriously if I was listening to rock as a kid,” he adds. “I didn’t feel like I fit in, but to have the original artist supporting me … [and that] really heals that part of my inner child.” For Hampson, it meant the world that a song that could’ve been “just about some crush,” meant something even deeper. “The idea that ‘Story of a Boy’ might be a cathartic pop music moment was deeply affecting and humbling to me,” says Hampson, who makes a cameo in the video. “I couldn’t be happier to be a small part of something this wonderful.
Jordy says he hopes the track makes “young queer boys” who listen to it “immediately feel[ing] heard, seen, safe, and happy.” “I like to envision queer people my age hear it come on and smile at the immediate familiarity and nostalgia, while also feeling healed from the same childhood experiences I went through,” he says.
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