Queer the Music returns for season 4!
7/6/20262 min
Jake Shears’ hit Queer The Music podcast returns for its fourth season. Kicking off with an episode featuring Placebo’s Brian Molko, this follows a double win for the number 1-charting podcast at the prestigious Webby Awards (including ‘Best Music Podcast’), with guests for Season 4 already set to include Swedish pop queen Tove Lo plus DJ, alt-pop artist Baby Queen and drag royalty, Jodie Harsh. Entering its biggest and most ambitious season to date, Queer The Music celebrates the music, artists and cultural moments that have shaped LGBTQ+ lives, also shifting politics, perception and popular culture in plain sight. Stay tuned for a new episode dropping every Wednesday at 6pm.
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First 90 secondsJake Shears· Host0:00
Hey friends, Jake Shears here, and I am delighted to announce that we are back. That's right, the award-winning Queer the Music returns for a brand new series celebrating the glorious people who've helped shape LGBTQ+ culture. And we've won two awards. We've won Best Music Podcast 2026 at the Webbys, and the Audience Award for Best Music Podcast 2026. So I'd love to thank everyone who voted for the show. It's highly appreciated, and we're super proud of these. And for this season, we've got some truly great guests sharing songs, scandals, stories, tragedies from the dance floor and the studio.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:40
I'm still just so deep in the club, I just [laughs]- Yeah ... forever gonna be on the dance floor, I think.
Jake Shears· Host0:46
Yeah. Oh, I, I, I- I'm gonna be that lady in Studio 54 who kind of, you know, in the movie who, like, dies really tragically on the dance floor, but I'm kind of low-key hoping that's me. [laughs] Love it.
Speaker 3· Soundbite0:55
We almost had imposter syndrome in, in reverse. We were like, "I can't believe that we've managed to convince somebody to give us this money to make a record. That we've got an agent, you know, who's putting gigs on for us, you know? We better, you know, we better push it to the max and enjoy it as much as possible because sooner or later we're gonna get found out."
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:14
I remember walking up the stairs into, as the double doors opened, and being hit by, you know, armpit and poppers and Jean-Paul Gaultier Le Male fragrance and, and, and, and I remember looking around the room thinking, "Oh my God,