How Gigi Perez Turned Queer Longing Into a Breakout Hit: ‘Representation Gives People the Ability to Dream’
Sitting in her childhood bedroom and noodling on her guitar in February 2024, 24-year-old Gigi Perez was thinking about the scope of her songwriting. She’d been ruminating for a while on the idea of a frantic kind of love, and how to connect it to her lyricism. “When that person is so constant in your…