New Music Friday: Karol G's sapphic heat, Jae Stephens is for the gays

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New Music Friday: Karol G's sapphic heat, Jae Stephens is for the gays

Another week, another New Music Friday!

Karol G music video Jae Stephens press photo

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It's Friday, which means we've been blessed with a fresh batch of new tunes from our favorite LGBTQ+ (and adjacent) musicians!

Karol G plays for the other team on her sapphic (and sexy) new song "Latina Forever," and Green Day and Reneé Rapp both release grungey kiss-offs to nuisances and negativity. BAYLI also teamed up with Sparrow & Barbossa for their sensual house track "Float," and chlothegod is featured on Aminé's stunning new album 13 Months of Sunshine.

And from the pop girls, Kyra Machida's baddie tendencies are in her "DNA," Julia Wolf's jealous of "Jennifer's Body" on her new punk album Pressure, and Jae Stephens shares her love for the gays exclusively with Out while backstage at the final stop of Flo's Access All Areas tour in Los Angeles.

Scroll through to listen to this week's best new bops, and follow this writer's New Music Friday playlist on Spotify.

"That's My Baby" - Jae Stephens

Get into Jae Stephens!

The chronically online singer-songwriter and pop star just dropped her new song "That's My Baby," one of the "moodier, sexier songs" off her upcoming project, she tells Out backstage at Thursday night's Access All Areas tour at the Hollywood Palladium. If her last project Sellout was her stepping into the light, now she's "not nervous in the light anymore."

Stephens took the time to share her love for the LGBTQ+ community, who she's "blowing kisses" to in the audience every night from the stage. "Me and my gay besties, we were walking the mile together, okay? It started there," she laughs. The gays "have great taste and I've always really been very honored that they latch on to my music and resonate with the style and the humor. It makes me feel like I'm doing something right and I'm speaking to a community that appreciates music and taste and arts and vocals and divas. I'm doing something that they respect and look towards, then it makes me feel like I'm doing something right."