Boyfriend is a girl-positive singer, songwriter, rapper, and performance artist hailing from the South. She’s best known for her absurd lyrics and captivating performances known as “rap cabarets,” but she most recently has embraced a more pop-centric vibe on her newest album, Next. Boyfriend’s show at the Spanish Moon, September 29th, definitely lived up to the hype I’d been hearing about.

Her dancers got the crowd pumped with a sexy burlesque-esque show before Boyfriend came out in a wedding gown, lace veil, and hair in her illustrious rollers while she rapped “Say You Will” off her first album, Love your Boyfriend. From there, she threw her “wedding bouquet” and stripped into an all black one piece and continued changing subtly for each song, but eventually took off the one piece to reveal her bra and bright red, high-waisted underwear.
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She made sure to warn the crowd that she had just started her period before coming on stage, which became a centerpiece of her performance, so they need not be alarmed if they saw blood anywhere. The dancers also changed from long white gowns, Jessica Rabbit-like dresses, raincoats, and pink tutus.

Boyfriend kept the audience engaged and excited with her use of props in each song, which were essential to her show. During one song, Boyfriend’s dancer shaved her armpits, and in another she rubbed the shaving cream all over her lady bits. They danced with giant hands during her most well known song “Like My Hand Did” and had a member of the audience put their lipstick on her before singing “Beauty is Pain.”
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She closed her show with “Marie Antoinette” featuring Big Freedia and “Fun Shit” featuring B52’s lead singer Cindy Wilson. The crowd went wild during these last two songs while Boyfriend’s dancers threw hair curlers, Boyfriend tampons, stickers, miniature fans, mints, underwear, and shirts. She made her way into the crowd and finished her performance sprawled out on the ground.

Boyfriend brings a fresh voice and sound to the often cliche genre of rap and pop, and keep an audience hooked, even those unfamiliar with her music.

– Madame Zeroni