Fancy Hagood - Southern Curiosity (2021)

Fancy Hagood has traveled a long, winding road to the release of his debut album. A fixture in both Nashville and Los Angeles, the singer-songwriter first came to prominence in 2015 with the pop hits “Goodbye” and “Boys Like You” (featuring Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor), quickly finding that a genre-obsessed music industry didn’t know what to do with him and his boundary-blurring music. “I could probably burst into tears talking about this,” Hagood tells Apple Music. “I moved to Nashville in 2009 with a vision and this idea for myself, and pretty much every year since then, I've been telling people, ‘Music's coming. I have an album.’ But I was never able to create what I felt like is fully a representation of who I am as a person and who I am as a creator.” Over a decade later, Hagood can finally make good on that promise. Southern Curiosity is a journey into Hagood’s Technicolor world, centering his identity as a Southern queer man and bringing all of his influences—country, Top 40, classic Southern rock, and more—together in endlessly listenable fashion.