Who's That Queer? [Stephin Merritt]

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Stephin Merritt is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles best known as the principal singer and songwriter in the band The Magnetic Fields.


Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines; examples include the song "When My Boy Walks Down the Street", which contains the lyric "and he's going to be my wife." He is fascinated with the undead, often making veiled or explicit references to vampires. Other frequent motifs in his lyrics include the age 17, dancing, seasons (most often summer), youth, old age, cities (especially New York City and Paris), the moon, the sun, the stars, rain, the night, marriage, blue eyes, faces, trains and railroads, the road, crying, murder, drinking, musical instruments, and love.

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