Trust Dorian Electra to queer Christianity and make it absolutely banging.
With a vivid dandified aesthetic that aims for somewhere between Empire Of The Sun and Adam Ant on keto, the genderfluid Houston native has also quickly built a dedicated fan base thanks to their futuristic spin on 00s pop, ’80s funk, and a long-standing love of satirising rigid gender roles and views on sexuality.
So it comes as little surprise the occasional Charli XCX collaborator has just dropped the supremely lavish video for a soaring, choral-inspired track about gay relationships that’s big enough for the Texan and his mate.
With hard-hitting lyrics like “I’m an abomination but I am God’s creation,” the avant hyper pop performance artist has put a new spin on biblical heterosexuality. With admirable flamboyance, he’s flipped the historically homophobic ‘God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’ phrase on its head to rewrite Eden’s fabled creation story into one that’s more inclusive, not to mention rawly resonant.
With a delicious defiance that screams ”Sod ’em” more than Sodom, Adam & Steve brilliantly eschews original themes of temptation and sin into a pop epic of unconditional love and acceptance.
Vacillating between angelic verses and demonic snarls, Electra’s performance is one of their most dynamic to date and it all comes to a show-stopping climax in three minutes exactly.
If Dorian’s fanbase is The Holy Church of Electra, Adam & Steve is their gospel.
Steve Pafford
Dorian Electra’s debut album Flamboyant was issued on 17 July by Live Nation Studios
