Hayley Kiyoko Shares the Stories Behind Her Five Most Memorable Songs

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Expectations. In fact, Kiyoko says she named her upcoming album Panorama as a nod to celebrating the highs and lows in life and “learning to love yourself along the way.”“When you're climbing a mountain, you can become so goal oriented and focused on the end results,” she tells Glamour. “It's so important during that journey to take a moment and enjoy the view at every point.

That's what inspired this album: sharing my journey.”It’s fair to say that Kiyoko—who’s an as well as a musician—has been on a roll, professionally, since she started acting and making music.

After her 2015 song “Girls Like Girls” became a viral hit, fans have dubbed her “Lesbian Jesus” and have continued to have sacred experiences with Kiyoko’s subsequent EPs, Citrine and I’m Too Sensitive for This Shit, as well as her debut studio album, Expectations.“Expectations was for queer people,” she says. “A lot of the time, we're always having to come out multiple times and we're also having to catch up with our present self.

Expectations was me sharing stories and experiences from my past and getting to share my authentic truth with the world.”Panorama is an opportunity to share another side of Kiyoko. “What's exciting about Panorama is that it embodies my present self,” she says. "It's a more refined, bolder version and way of sharing who I am.