{"id":4244,"date":"2025-04-08T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:26:42","slug":"perfume-genius-doesnt-need-to-answer-any-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/perfume-genius-doesnt-need-to-answer-any-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfume Genius Doesn\u2019t Need To Answer Any Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy81OTgwNzU1My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc5NjQ5NzkzMX0.X6LX-ljFcbwLsuOHZwQaJ5pXDMUMfpXMUA8I_acGQ_s\/img.jpg?width=2000&amp;height=2667&amp;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0\"><\/p>\n<p>On the eve of his seventh album <em><em>Glory<\/em><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/perfumegenius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perfume Genius<\/a> is preoccupied. He\u2019s fixated on the things anyone with a wandering, creative and often self-destructive mind fixate on: his image, his body and the pervasive fear that the people he loves will die. That\u2019s not to say <em><em>Glory <\/em><\/em>is melancholic and ruminative. Rather, it\u2019s an elastic, open-hearted record that\u2019s refreshingly more intent on flirting with life\u2019s hardest questions than answering them. <\/p>\n<p>Perfume Genius, the stage name of Michael Hadreas, has never balked away from discomfort, but on <em><em>Glory <\/em><\/em>he\u2019s waved the white flag to thought. In an era where we\u2019re all bogged down by a relentless news cycle, environmental calamities, and bouts of solipsism, it feels impossible to think our way out of despair. In the album\u2019s first track, \u201cIt\u2019s a Mirror,\u201d Hadreas muses, \u201cCan I get off without reliving history\/ And let every echo just sing to itself?\u201d It\u2019s a cheeky acknowledgement that we can\u2019t necessarily control what courses through our brains, but we can let noise just be noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the songs are kind of like exposure therapy. It\u2019s at least attempting to feel more as opposed to just thinking,\u201d Hadreas tells <em><em>PAPER<\/em><\/em>. &#8220;It\u2019s trying to actually go towards a realized version instead of conceptual.\u201d Hadreas, who worked on the album with producer Blake Mills (who has produced every Perfume Genius album since <em><em>No Shape<\/em><\/em>) and creative partner and husband Alan Wyffels, does exactly that. <em><em>Glory <\/em><\/em>sees the artist at his most settled amidst the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Perfume Genius sat down with <em>PAPER<\/em> to talk about creative reinvention, the epic music video for the single \u201cNo Front Teeth\u201d featuring Aldous Harding and his love for <em><em>The Beast<\/em><\/em>, the epic sci-fi movie from French provocateur Bertrand Bonello. <u><strong> <\/strong><\/u> <\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"eeed57fa79bf7217b434216040d59512\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No Front Teeth\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X7I3FyzC7d0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why, with this whole album, did you make the decision to go blondish?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a multi-part thing. Part of it was like \u2014 I was at home and I knew how extroverted I was going to have to be to do all this stuff around the record. I needed to get in some mindset where I\u2019m out. And dyeing my hair was immediately a step towards that. It\u2019s fake. I like that it was a performance of my hair. My mom is a redhead, and I was born with red hair so it felt personal too. I liked that juxtaposition, I guess. But the spray tan, I don\u2019t have it now, but I just did an interview where I talked about all the [album] covers. It\u2019s hard to articulate. I guess it\u2019s like talking about the music. Maybe if I went to therapy with somebody for seven hours they could help me unpack why I did all of the things I did. I have no idea. I just think I needed to have a spray for the record. And then Cody [Critcheloe] was like, &#8220;Yeah, and it should be really, really intense and we should show the tan line.&#8221; And it just ramps up from there. But as far as a really meaningful reason, maybe I\u2019ll know in a year, or maybe there isn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s also leading into something I wanted to talk about in general with this album. Knowing that you\u2019re going to have to be public-facing in this way, is it easier to be a character each cycle of this? Is the performance aspect of it a shield against public scrutiny or attention?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It definitely feels like that. But what\u2019s strange about it is, you know \u2014 my instinct is to not leave the house. I get anxious and am like, being at a party sounds horrible. But then when I go to a party I\u2019m like, this is fun! I don\u2019t want to leave. I get really into it. And performing and all this stuff is the same. I dread it. I get really in my head. I\u2019m like oh god, how am I going to do that all again? Then I start doing it and am like, I\u2019m kind of into this. We got the pictures back, and I was like, oh my god, these are incredible. I\u2019m like let\u2019s fucking go. But each side never fully leaves. It\u2019s not like I fully click into each one. They exist in varying degrees all the time. And weirdly you end up feeling more like yourself inside all this dressing up.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><strong>People talk, especially in terms of pop music, about the necessity of reinvention. And there\u2019s the framing of reinvention. I think people can be cynical about it and talk about it like it\u2019s some sort of attention-grabbing ploy. If you don\u2019t constantly change your sound or your look people will get bored of you. I don\u2019t know if anyone thinks about it from an artist\u2019s perspective and how that frees an artist instead of trapping them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though I talk about being afraid or something, it also feels really necessary that I am uncomfortable in all of it for it to be good. I don\u2019t mind repeating it if it feels inspired in some way but there\u2019s some mechanism in me where I\u2019m like this is the next layer of something. I\u2019m not sacred about what that has to be. If I wanted to just dress and it be exactly like last time and that felt like what I was supposed to do then I would do it. And it allows it to be exploratory again. You find new things. There are new layers to go to. And the riskiness of it helps everything. Also, it helps you frame it all as an era. And it helps me psyche myself up for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What era is this for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. This one. If there is a mission statement, energetically, it\u2019s trying to unite everything. Not have it feel like such an extreme A to B. The music, I\u2019ve always been very, very serious about it. This is high art. We are going in, you know what I mean? It\u2019s felt stuffy in a way that I like. It makes me really proud that I feel so smart when I\u2019m writing, and I feel very taken seriously. And I want to be taken seriously. But I feel like I\u2019m less concerned with that now. And I want the music to have more information included because I\u2019m not afraid it\u2019s going to cancel itself out. I can wink, or it can be more about who I am as a person. It can be more inside of everything, which is relieving in some ways because then it\u2019s more me. But it\u2019s also scarier because it feels more vulnerable. Also, how do you be more you? If that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do. It\u2019s impossible. I was supposed to do a press thing where I was supposed to go say something really poignant for 20 minutes. And then I was like, the more I think about saying something poignant the less poignant it\u2019s going to be. Or if I have a meeting and someone\u2019s like, &#8220;You\u2019re so funny and weird and all the stuff we\u2019re going to do for promo should be more funny and weird.&#8221; I\u2019m like okay, but I think if I think too hard about being funny and weird it won\u2019t be any of those things. <\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"52ef8cb17491b5d859ea5ce9e02fc76d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"25824\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img-57.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s something I loved about the album. It\u2019s almost the antithesis of this process, where I\u2019m asking you to distill all of these things into statements or ideas that are not even super conscious all the time. In so many of the songs there are these questioning lyrics and to me they seem more like questions to yourself. It feels like a process of thinking and how to navigate thought. I was wondering if that was something that was conscious to you as you were writing? Like, <em>I\u2019m going to make an album about my thoughts and the things that come in and out of my brain. The wrestling between the noise and the peace<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I think it\u2019s really freeing. A lot of those songs aren\u2019t the result of me figuring it out and then sharing the result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The music almost feels anti-figuring it out. Like, how do we sit with the noise?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That in itself becomes really relieving. Because a lot of thoughts are just like an ambient weight on you that I\u2019m constantly trying to soothe or figure out or unpack. But it feels un-unpackable. There\u2019s no way around it being confusing. At least I\u2019m incapable of reckoning with this thing fully. And so, it\u2019s relieving for that to be intact in the sharing of it. I think that does allow it to dissipate a little bit. Not the thing itself, but your obsession with trying to figure things out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s like how people say the only way to manage thoughts is to actually not fight them or push them away or indulge them. Just acknowledge them. Is the music acknowledging the workings of your brain without deciding that I\u2019m going to <\/strong><strong>change something or address it or fight it? This whole project feels like one intrusive thought where it\u2019s you just expressing those and how they manifest in your brain without necessarily needing to resolve anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is very maddening to me. Intrusive thoughts are very real to me. I have those. But I intellectually recognize them as intrusive thoughts. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m being fully piloted by them, but I also know that I am. The older I get the more I realize that I\u2019m just in the throes of it. I think behaviorally I am, but I also have this understanding that, <em>Oh, maybe this feeling is just fake<\/em>. Or <em>maybe it\u2019s not real even if I\u2019m feeling it so deeply<\/em>. I still, 90% of the time, act solely based on it. That has also been really heartbreaking because I\u2019m not going to think my way out of this thing. The solution is not just spiraling at home. So why am I insisting on doing that? And why am I so unwilling to move towards something that\u2019s actually been proven to help me? Which is to leave the house, or talk to people, or exercise. But then beyond my own personal problems, the earth is on fire. We had an earthquake the other day, and I was feeling very cozy on my couch. I was like, oh everything\u2019s okay. I had my dog and was playing Elden Ring. I was feeling cozy. And then the earthquake happens, and it\u2019s like, <em>Oh, I\u2019m going to die. Alan\u2019s gonna die. My dog\u2019s going to die. People are dying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d5e925e10757993464cd7cd46168bbd0\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"52a0f\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img-58.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the two music videos you\u2019ve given us, there are both gestures at the end that are playing out your death. You\u2019re deepthroating a gun and you\u2019re deepthroating a gasoline pump and lighting yourself on fire. I feel like it\u2019s one of the more common intrusive thoughts, like when you\u2019re driving and you know you can just swerve and do something dangerous. It\u2019s not totally morbid, but there are just things that come up in our brains because that\u2019s how we all are. I was wondering if those images in the videos were versions of those thoughts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I would do mushrooms I would think about dying and just laugh and laugh and laugh. I would think about climate change and look around. Like one time at the park there was a tree that was just burnt, and I was like, <em>Ahahaha<\/em>. Laughing and laughing about it. I think because it just is. I wanted that to be in the album too. I wanted everything to be in there. Because it feels very selfish. I\u2019m so obsessed with wanting to be a good person and being afraid that Alan is going to die, that I just lay on the couch thinking about those things. I don\u2019t talk to him. I don\u2019t do anything while I\u2019m here. The thing I\u2019m worrying about protecting, I\u2019m not engaging it or doing anything about it. I\u2019m just dreading it being taken away. So, it is play acting for when it happens, which is kind of like on the plane when I\u2019m so terrified of turbulence and then when the turbulence is really bad I\u2019m eerily kind of calm. Like I have been preparing for it. I have already had the feelings before it happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s like what you said about not wanting to leave the house but then when you\u2019re at the party you\u2019re fine. When you\u2019re confronted with the thing it suddenly becomes very manageable and the worst thing is like the 40 minutes before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of the songs are like exposure therapy. It\u2019s at least attempting to feel more as opposed to just thinking. It\u2019s trying to actually go towards a realized version instead of conceptual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That comes across. It comes across in all of your music, but more acutely here. You pose questions that are very existential or could be very troubling and then you just move through them. There\u2019s also so many characters in this album, named and unnamed. When you\u2019re writing do you think of these characters as actual people or versions of yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>All of the characters are really people, and I\u2019m thinking of them. But also, like, Jason is an archetype of a man. Even with my personal dealings with these people, I was aware that I was archetyping them. I was dealing with my concept of them as much as who they actually are. And what validation from this type of man means to me. Also, creating a scene. Some of those songs feel like I can\u2019t just explain what I\u2019m thinking. Partly because I don\u2019t fully understand it. Partly because it would be a disservice. It\u2019s a constellation of things. Some of them are very personal and about the actual person and some are just about my ideas of people and my own personal shit that I\u2019m bringing in to it. Casting them all as them but also like representing something lets that all exist at the same time.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the \u201cNo Front Teeth\u201d video, you made this filter thing where one could create their own captions for the video. In the video, as it is, the dialogue in captions doesn\u2019t necessarily have to cohere to the images or what\u2019s being shown. It\u2019s just fantasy. In wanting people to put their own words to it, was that a way to immerse them into this thought experiment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think so. I\u2019m also just really glad people like it. And feel like they can connect to it. In a way that\u2019s maybe similar to what I was imagining, but also delightfully different sometimes. Still, a lot of people are responding, \u201cWhat is this about?\u201d Or, \u201cWhat genre is this?\u201d People keep asking me about the album cover, \u201cWhat is the aesthetic of this?\u201d It\u2019s like, I don\u2019t know. So, it\u2019s interesting to see people add seemingly nonsense or whatever but then there\u2019s a little bit of felt seriousness in it too. And I think that\u2019s how the captions feel. Some of them make me laugh. Some of them give me chills for a second. Like that feels eerie. But also all of it requires a balance. We did those captions and at first we were like maybe we shouldn\u2019t have any captions at all. Maybe it\u2019s more effective to not know what we\u2019re saying and people just get to imagine it. But then we put a ton of captions on it and we found a balance that I really like. The ones that stayed are the ones that should have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve laughed so hard \u2014 the women in music line. Like, we\u2019re women in music. I liked, in a trickister-y way that this video isn\u2019t easy dissectible. And now adding this option for people to put their own captions to it adds to that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more like a feeling. Did you see the movie <em><em>The Beast<\/em><\/em>? I loved it. But some of it was bad and some of it was amazing. And sometimes I was like, <em>Wait, are they saying that? Is this what they mean?<\/em> But then it\u2019s like who fucking cares. I think everyone is obsessed with figuring out what the mission statement behind everything is. Like what is this saying about women, or something. It is saying something sometimes, and sometimes it isn\u2019t. I like the things it makes me think about. Not what I\u2019ve been told what I\u2019m supposed to think about. What naturally comes up. I also don\u2019t care if I\u2019m then wrong. Or the next scene nothing is in there. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"6bca547c28e0aa40902167674e6fc6b0\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Perfume Genius - &quot;It&#039;s a Mirror&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hx2_NGaDPrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah. And to that point of figuring out what a movie is trying to say or what an album is trying to say \u2014 maybe the glory of life, to use your title, is actually deciding I\u2019m not going to do that. I\u2019m going to be okay not going through with the process of deciphering. Letting something wash over me without having to add comprehension as the goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah and then your body starts figuring out things. There are other ways that are unknown to you. There are little pieces moving around all over the place that are organizing and making little pathways. That movie had that relief to it, that I\u2019m talking about. You can just be in it and it just unfolds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of the body, I\u2019m sure when people talk about this album they\u2019re not going to necessarily draw comparisons to Ugly Season, because outwardly it\u2019s a very different sound and project, but given that it was so dance-focused and about being embodied, did that play into writing this record as well? Like what you got from that process of movement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I mean, there\u2019s a lot. When I did the dance with Kate Wallich, I was in love with her. I was in love with everybody. I felt very present in a way that I hadn\u2019t felt for years. And, in a creative fantasy environment too. It was my job and their job to be there and to dance. So all of those things blending together will inform everything I do. It also shows me when I\u2019m not connected to that. It ended and Covid happened and I just had no access to those specific frameworks, to play inside of that. It was like, how do I carry all of that, those things I learned and those feelings, when it\u2019s not available to me in that specific way? It\u2019s like <em><em>The Beast. <\/em><\/em>Maybe if I watched that before the dance I would feel different about it. I wouldn\u2019t have that somatic response to certain things. Where now I\u2019m allowing them to wash over me and happen instead of analyzing.<\/p>\n<p>Even when we\u2019re talking about being isolated and internal, I think that I thought that all my songs and everything came from me thinking really hard. But I don\u2019t think they really do. Even though I think about being disembodied all the time, I think I\u2019m weirdly like always embodied in some ways. It\u2019s this really weird competition. I think the dance and all of that made some things really clear to me, where the disconnects are and where they should be and who cares. It made me more willing to go to certain places. Also, I was surprised during the dance. I was surprised at what was helping me figure things out. It became rolling around with people and lifting them up. I wasn\u2019t on Wikipedia or anything. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have teeth nightmares?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, I think I have before. But most of my nightmares are like, I\u2019m incapacitated in some way. I can\u2019t talk. I\u2019m supposed to but I can\u2019t. I\u2019m lethargic and I\u2019m supposed to get somewhere but I can\u2019t get there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That reminds me of the opening to the \u201cIt\u2019s a Mirror\u201d video. Waking up in that discomfort. Feeling like you\u2019re disoriented and not in control of what\u2019s happening around you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the scene in <em><em>Cries and Whispers<\/em><\/em>? I think I posted about it on Instagram. She\u2019s like cycling through grief. She\u2019s on the bed and she\u2019s like seemingly cycling through every emotion? And riding the wave of it. That was the original inspiration for that. Fully stuck in your own wave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It almost feels like sleep paralysis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>Yeah. It doesn\u2019t match the circumstances at all. I\u2019m like in bed and everything\u2019s fine. But I\u2019m stuck.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img alt=\"\" class=\"rm-shortcode lazyload\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"9ae95d29feea1d118a89518e6d28879f\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"5d6e3\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img-59.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you engage Aldous Haring for the \u201cNo Front Teeth\u201d song and the video? It requires putting a lot of yourself. Like, getting an artist who is down to play like that is really amazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had no question about her capability to do it. I knew she would be incredible at it. Same with the song. I could just hear her voice right away on it and just knew that if she was down to do it, whatever she sent me was going to be amazing. But it required a lot of trust from her. Because I know Cody. It could be completely different from what we intended, but I knew I was going to love it and fully trust him. But she didn\u2019t know Cody. She only knew me and Alan. I tried to give her as much information as possible, even the parts that were open-ended and we would be acting. Trying to give her framework. And she was just so down to do everything. It was wild. We just clicked into it seamlessly. With always being like, &#8220;Oh god, what if we\u2019re ugly? What if this is stupid?&#8221; We both figured out a way to navigate that together. She was just down. Even when I wrote the lyrics to it. I just knew she\u2019d understand. We have similar instincts and ways of operating. And we\u2019ve done similar things in our lives.  I knew she\u2019d know what that song was about. Even if she doesn\u2019t directly know everything that I\u2019m referencing, she would know where it was coming from. I don\u2019t know how we did it. It was really full on. A lot of the scenes were just playing this Ave Maria remix over and over and over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That was your backing track?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I don\u2019t know. It was just deranged. I kind of love it, unironically. But also it\u2019s so demented and funny. There are tons of people there. People making the waffles for the waffle party. And they were real. Somehow everyone clicked into it. Even the art department putting all the cords and easter eggs and the combination of some of it being absurd and dumb and some of it being really personal. We somehow all managed to create that world together with just the framework. It wasn\u2019t 100% storyboarded. It was some of that but it was open.<\/p>\n<p><strong>People use Lynchian so flexibly to describe anything that\u2019s somewhat surreal. What\u2019s truly Lynchian about the video is that there\u2019s an internal logic. It makes no sense yet every move feels so organic. Just the emotional logic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels very intentional the whole time. It feels like everything has equal weight. Regardless if it\u2019s horrifying or silly. It all has equal resonance.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Photography: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ssion_official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cody Critcheloe<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of his seventh album Glory, Perfume Genius is preoccupied. He\u2019s fixated on the things anyone with a wandering, creative and often self-destructive mind fixate on: his image, his body and the pervasive fear that the people he loves will die. That\u2019s not to say Glory is melancholic and ruminative. Rather, it\u2019s an elastic, open-hearted record that\u2019s refreshingly more intent on flirting with life\u2019s hardest questions than answering them. 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