“Girls Like Girls” was unlike anything that Kiyoko had written at the time. “And that’s where ‘Girls Like Girls’ came from.” “They were like, ‘All right, if you felt fearless and weren’t scared, what would you say?’” she recalls. That was a big fear of mine, because you’re really putting yourself in the line of fire by opening your personal life up to the world.”īut in a session with co-songwriters Owen Thomas and Lily May-Young, Kiyoko was asked a very simple question: What’s something that scares you? In that moment, she came out of the closet to her co-workers, and found her voice. “I wanted to be known for being Hayley… for who I am, and not who other people think I am. “It’s the immediate judgment that people have, and the stereotypes that they have on a female who likes women,” Kiyoko tells Billboard.
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