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Boyfriend is an American rapper, songwriter, producer, and performance artist. Raised in Nashville, she found her rap persona upon moving to New Orleans. Boyfriend coined the term "rap-cabaret," a nod to the emphasis on performance in her music.

Formerly known as Flannery Mitchell, she identifies only as Boyfriend and has not publicly disclosed her legal name.


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Early life and education

Boyfriend grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She was raised in the Church of Christ, and attended parochial school from kindergarten through her sophomore year of high school. In a 2015 interview, she said that her early environment forced her to develop a sense of self. "My personal reality growing up was very much conservative, hetero-normative, white, and Christian. So to do something like be vegetarian, or like girls, or explore another culture or, god forbid, question god... you had to grapple, have a mental reckoning."

After graduating from a public high school in downtown Nashville, Boyfriend moved to Los Angeles, where she attended UCLA. She graduated with a degree in creative writing.

Following her graduation, Boyfriend remained in Los Angeles, where she worked in television production. After five years, she decided to return to the South, and moved to New Orleans with a job in arts education. Working a day job as a teacher, she began to develop the character of Boyfriend after she discovered a natural ability to rap while drunkenly freestyling with friends. She was drawn to rap by the amount of words she could use in a song.


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Style and identity

Described as a "mile-a-minute rhyme-spitter; a bawdy, brassy performance artist and a feminist provocateur," her rhymes address subjects including sex, feminism, gender and empowerment with 'bracingly blue, carefully crafted, comic turns of phrase." She has said that she uses rap as social commentary, and as a way to start conversations about art and identity.

She chose the stage name Boyfriend both because she wanted a name that evoked a feeling from everyone that heard it, and because she felt the overuse of the term among her friends was unintentionally oppressive.

Boyfriend can easily be identified by her signature large glasses, vintage lingerie, and a head full of curlers during most performances and appearances. It is not uncommon to spot fans at her rap cabaret shows dressed as Boyfriend.

In January 2015, Boyfriend told an interviewer that there was "definitely repression being cast off--I certainly hope that there's someone out there who hears my music and feels less ashamed, less scared, and less dirty as a result. But it's not about shock value so much as embracing the darkness ... employing darkness as a tool for light."


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Career

2012-2013

The first track she recorded was the overtly sexual "Hunch and Munch." It was accompanied by a video, released in February 2012.

With a mantra of "form and intention," she put together a Burlesque-inspired live show. Categorizing her performances as "rap cabaret," she appeared as Boyfriend for the first time opening for bounce artist Vockah Redu at a New Orleans club. Gambit wrote that Boyfriend has a "stage show that is as much cone-bra, arena-sized Madonna as it is an intimate, hilariously profane psychosexual bedroom drama."

2014-2016

Working with the New Orleans-based production team/party duo Sex Party, she released a series of songs about love through her Love Your Boyfriend project. Two EPs, Love Your Boyfriend Part 1 and Love Your Boyfriend Part 2 were released in late 2014. Love Your Boyfriend Part 3 was scheduled to be released in 2016.

In addition to touring as a headliner, Boyfriend has performed at events including SXSW, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Pemberton Music Festival, and BUKU Music + Art Project. She toured with Big Freedia during the fall of 2015. In April 2016, a Boyfriend performance at Proud Larry's in Oxford, Mississippi was cancelled "due to statewide pressures and the current political climate."

Boyfriend wrote 4 songs and co-produced Big Freedia's 2016 EP, A Very Big Freedia Christmazz. She collaborated with Big Freedia on "Marie Antoinette," a "big room banger" which premiered on The Fader in August 2016.

2017-Present

In June 2017, "Boyfriend and her dancers slayed...with a dazzling dance routine" at Bonnaroo Music Festival where her performance with Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Chance The Rapper in the SuperJam was named by Consequence of Sound as the Number 3 set in their Bonnaroo Festival Review: Top 10 Sets. Additionally, Boyfriend was mentioned in Bob Lefsetz' June 12, 2017 edition of The Lefsetz Letter as Bonnaroo's Best Find.

Boyfriend performed at Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in August 2017 where her performance was mentioned by Rolling Stone as a part of their 5 Best Things That Happened at Outside Lands 2017.

In Spring of 2017 came Boyfriend's latest EP: Next. The EP was produced in Laurel Canyon by Boyfriend and Pablo Dylan with the help of New Orleans musicians Khris Royal, Joe Shirley, and Alvin Ford Jr. The EP includes a track featuring Cindy Wilson of the B-52's.


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Discography

  • Like My Hand Did (Single) (2014)
  • Love Your Boyfriend, Part 1 (2014)
  • Love Your Boyfriend, Part 2 (2014)
  • Love Your Boyfriend, Part 3 (2016)
  • Marie Antoinette (feat. Big Freedia) (Single) (2016)
  • Fun Sh*t (feat. Cindy Wilson of The B52s) (Single) (2017)
  • NEXT (EP) (2017)
  • Toast (Single) (2018)

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Selected videography

  • Hunch and Munch (2013)
  • Swanky (2014)
  • Attention (2014)
  • Like My Hand Did (2014)
  • Jealousy (2015)
  • Rap Cabaret - Say You Will (Boogie T. Remix) (2016)

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References


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External links

  • Official website

Source of the article : Wikipedia

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