I have walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in clothes that feel more like the person once buried deep inside. But I am not stuck inside myself anymore. I often have to explain what it means to be trans. People still get my pronouns wrong and assume I’m a woman. I have a short haircut, 18 tattoos, and several piercings. I no longer wear dresses because I don’t really like them. In 2021, I now dress much more masculinely. In moments when I was trying so hard to be feminine, to be a girl, and to repress being attracted to girls, there was nothing else in my life as bright as that image of my true self shining through. Despite feeling like someone who was far from what, who, and where I wanted to be, the sunshine that exists in the song helped me float through the years until I had the capacity to swim.Ī whole universe existed in the funky guitar solo upholding the ways that life could be good-that it has just stopped raining and the sun shines brightly, that everyone is smiling, that things might get dark, but remembering the sunshine when the night comes is a way to hold onto that version of the sky forever.
It made me feel happy and whole enough to believe that specific future could be possible. Blue Sky” was a hatch in a pitch black room that let possibility-the possibility of living openly-in through a crack. But there was a song that I’d play on repeat to give me faith that there was a different person buried deeper inside of me somewhere, and that someday they’d be seen.ĭeep in denial to survive and drowning in my pretend identity as a cisgender and straight teenager, I felt like I was literally stuck in the dark. I had no idea what or who I could be if I allowed myself to want it. I ricocheted between wearing too much black and forcing myself to wear dresses because I thought that’s what I was supposed to do.
#MR BLUE SKY HOW TO#
Blue Sky.”Īt 15, I was a mess with long, unkempt dark hair who didn’t know how to dress on the outside in a way that matched my insides. In this essay, nonbinary writer and journalist Elly Belle honors Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. To celebrate Pride Month, four writers paid homage to the songs that invite curiosity, discovery, and fantasy in their lives. Fantasies, of course, come with soundtracks. When you’re discovering who you are and don’t see an outlet for expressing your gender or sexuality, you imagine it - you craft elaborate scenarios where you can feel fully yourself. The Birmingham Blues is an English football club that competes in the EFL Championship.Queerness and fantasy have long been inextricably tied. Blue Sky” could be a part of Lynne’s “blue streak.” Lynne wrote several songs with the word “blue” in the title, including “Midnight Blue,” “Birmingham Blues,” “Bluebird Is Dead,” “Boy Blue,” and “Bluebird.” This “blue” persistence has been attributed to Lynne’s fondness for his hometown-Birmingham, England-where the Birmingham “Blues” play. Many critics (as well as many dedicated ELO fans) have noticed that “Mr. When the band performed the song live, Bevan would smack the side of a fire extinguisher with his drumstick.
Bev Bevan (drums) is credited with this sound, and he actually produced it by striking a fire extinguisher.
How about that for a marketing strategy.Īnother often misunderstood part of the song is the clanging percussive sound that rings in the chorus of the song. ELO is quite literally telling its listeners to listen to more of their music. This exit lyric is referencing the practice of turning a vinyl record over to hear the B-side to continue to listen to the record. The first nuance is the song’s final, and heavily vocoded, lyric: Please turn me over. While it is not rocket science to decode the overall meaning of the song, there are a few nuances within the song.
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