It’s 2023 and Fletcher has thrown down the queer gauntlet! She opened the yr on stage with Miley Cyrus, performing “Midnight Sky,” with Miley draped over her like a handwoven bisexual throw blanket, at one level holding palms whereas Miley stroked her thumb and noozled towards her neck. And now, lower than one full week into the yr, Fletcher has launched a brand new music video collab with nation pop star Kelsea Ballerini. And never simply any collab. A love/heartbreak collab filled with sapphic making out that ends with Fletcher and Kelsea in a restaurant meet-cute.
See, as a result of Fletcher was with this different woman. And Kelsea Ballerini was with this man. (I feel they had been in the identical home, which is possibly haunted? TBD.) And it was all early days good occasions, but it surely fell aside like this stuff typically do. Fletcher and Kelsea sing about the way it’s powerful stuff that the subsequent individual all the time will get the higher model of you — after which they bump arms whereas pondering their exes and ingesting espresso in a diner, which is without doubt one of the prime ten homosexual methods to satisfy. They smile shyly. It’s the beginning of one thing new!
You is perhaps questioning what’s happening behind the scenes of this video drop, and don’t you are concerned! I’ve solutions! In response to the journalism I did on TikTok, Fletcher and Kelsea went out collectively a few nights in the past and obtained blasted on Tequila whereas previewing the brand new video. Fletcher known as Kelsea “Rambo” — which, by the way, is what Che Diaz known as Miranda within the new Intercourse and the Metropolis when she was turning her homosexual — and so they danced and drank and watched themselves sing. Then, the subsequent day, after what was very clearly a sleepover, they put their hair into matching buns and popped on some eye masks and posted teasers for the video at actually the very same second, spooning their telephones collectively on the desk.
Exhibit A: Rambo
@fletcher inform @Kelsea Ballerini you need it
♬ Higher Model – FLETCHER & Kelsea Ballerini
Exhibit B: Ram-boo?
@fletcher tomorrow 10 am est @kelseaballerini
♬ Higher Model – FLETCHER & Kelsea Ballerini
What does all this imply? Nicely, naked minimal it means Fletcher is DARING you to out-queer her this yr, issuing a problem for the ages. I’ll depart the remainder as much as you.
Heather Hogan
Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior editor who lives in New York Metropolis along with her spouse, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She’s a member of the Tv Critics Affiliation, the Homosexual and Lesbian Leisure Critics Affiliation, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You may also discover her on Twitter, and Instagram.
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