{"id":31133,"date":"2022-08-05T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bop-shop-songs-from-allison-ponthier-kidd-kenn-fletcher-and-more\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:48:45","slug":"bop-shop-songs-from-allison-ponthier-kidd-kenn-fletcher-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/entertainment\/bop-shop-songs-from-allison-ponthier-kidd-kenn-fletcher-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Bop Shop: Songs From Allison Ponthier, Kidd Kenn, Fletcher, And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for the ever-elusive &#8220;bop&#8221; is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new?Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This week, in honor of Pride Month, we&#8217;ve been celebrating Queer Music Week by highlighting how TikTok has become a key platform for emerging LGBTQ+ musicians and the ways pop artists have gotten bolder and more explicit in singing about queer sex. That&#8217;s all in addition to conversations with forward-thinking LGBTQ+ artists Blue Rojo, Muna, and Trixie Mattel.Now, for this week&#8217;s music round-up, we shine the spotlight on LGBTQ+ musicians making art that feels vital to this moment. Get ready: The Queer Music Week Bop Shop is open for business.Kidd Kenn: &#8220;Body&#8221;Chicago&#8217;s Kidd Kenn has been rapping since he was an actual kid(d), which, all things considere&#8230; Click below to read the full story from MTV News<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/3188036\/bop-shop-queer-music-week-2022\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for the ever-elusive &#8220;bop&#8221; is difficult. Playlists and streaming-service recommendations can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new?Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This week, in honor of Pride Month, we&#8217;ve been celebrating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":31134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bop Shop: Songs From Allison Ponthier, Kidd Kenn, Fletcher, And More - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/bop-shop-songs-from-allison-ponthier-kidd-kenn-fletcher-and-more\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bop Shop: Songs From Allison Ponthier, Kidd Kenn, Fletcher, And More - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The search for the ever-elusive &quot;bop&quot; is difficult. 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