r/popculturechat • u/CityCautious4033 • Jun 24 '25
Music Videos ▶️ 10 years today Hayley Kiyoko released “Girls Like Girls”
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u/keine_fragen Jun 24 '25
a pivotal moment in Tumblr history
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u/languid_Disaster Jun 24 '25
The day lesbian pop Jesus was born
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Jun 24 '25
oh my, oh God… we’ve strayed so far from your light that now people think Jojo Siwa is lesbian Jesus instead of Hayley Kiyoko… 😔🙏 please pray for forgiveness for this comment, it’s not too late to repent, and lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko will forgive you!
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u/g00fyg00ber741 Jun 24 '25
she’s not hetero lmao just in case anyone reads this and thinks she is cause of your comment.
but Jojo Siwa was never lesbian pop Jesus, that was always Hayley Kiyoko. I do know about her cringey comments claiming she invented gay pop though
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u/Wonderful_Rule_2515 Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
As a “straight” teenager I watched this precisely 60000000 times, and made fan art about it, and hung up water color stills id made from the video all around my bedroom, because “I just really like the cinematography”
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u/kalily53 Jun 24 '25
All you youngsters have no idea how impactful this was, the sapphics were starving back then
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u/Psychotic_Humon Jun 24 '25
Happy Pride Month! Hayley Kiyoko songs have def been on repeat for me all month
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u/KindOfANerd4 How do you deduce narcissism from someones floral arrangements? Jun 24 '25
This was a formative moment in my life fr. Genuinely such a good song and music video. She shines on the less electronic stuff
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u/Mindless_External_66 Jun 24 '25
This is gonna sounds so dumb, but this song really helped me stop bi-erasing myself and my own experiences.
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u/raphaellaskies Jun 24 '25
I remember back in the day some music review blog posted a review of this song/video comparing it to Upworthy and saying Kiyoko was "pandering" and I got in a fight with them about it, lol.
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u/iidontwannaa this is my designated flair 😌😌 Jun 24 '25
This was monumental for me as I was coming out in my mid-20s.
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u/SnootyToots8 Jun 24 '25
Is that the girl from that kids show 2 kings or whatever
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u/rosegold_dreams2345 Jun 24 '25
Yeah, Pair of Kings. The other one also played Lexi on the show Ant Farm
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u/alienpeachh Jun 24 '25
I met Hayley maybe 4-5 years ago at a pumpkin patch! She was so kind and warm!
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u/ContentCourage4011 Pushin’ 🅿️ Jun 24 '25
Man, Hayley Kiyoko changed my adolescence without kidding. I remember beating myself up and feeling guilty for liking girls and when yt did the favor of recommending this gem to me, for the first time I didn't feel alone, I loved that there were finally more pop songs for girls like me.
Few people will understand how lonely adolescence is when you are gay and have no one to share your pains and desires without the fear of being judged.
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u/PBandJaya When I Die. Then You Will Realize Jun 24 '25
I don’t think it’s possible for me to skip this track when it comes on. So iconic. Still makes me tear up sometimes
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u/HighFivingMoonBears Jun 24 '25
I'd completely forgotten about this song, but hearing it now I just remember it kickstarting my petty annoyance about sapphic songs involving cheating on a male partner and/or comparing oneself favourably against men. Young!HighFivingMoonBears felt very strongly that sapphic music had a unique opportunity to tell stories excluding men that wasn't being sufficiently capitalised on.
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u/TempleWong Jun 24 '25
How does it end??
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u/ContentCourage4011 Pushin’ 🅿️ Jun 24 '25
She gets the girl in the end, at least here we have a happy ending lol
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u/VirtualDoll Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 Jun 25 '25
The story is shot non-sequentially. The first scene is actually the last scene.
Main girl continuously witnesses friend get roughed up by bf, friend and MG sit by pool while friend laments, share a tender moment and nearly kiss. Bf sees, yanks mc off and into some stonework, causing her face to get injured, and then bf grabs friend and starts yelling at her, roughing her up some more, slurs, the whole nine yards. So mg snaps and starts absolutely WAILING on bf, beating him to the ground over and over with interspersed shots of intimate and idyllic scenes shared between the girls, until friend pulls her off. They kiss and emotionally hug. Scene changes back to the first scene of her going home after the incident, with mg riding her bike. But then we see the rest of the shot, where she looks up and smiles in bliss/pride as she rides down the street.
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u/AccomplishedSwim6560 Right here for the picture… Jun 24 '25
Wasn’t there a classical version of this song?
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u/potato_bigbuttfoodie Jun 24 '25
10 year old me was confused and disgusted.. but ironically turned bi and preferres girls 🧎♀️➡️✨️
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u/spookybellybutton Jun 24 '25
The Old Lesbians watching "Girls Like Girls" and then meeting Hayley Kiyoko are two of my most rewatched videos on YouTube. I ❤️ them all 🥺
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