TikTok Star Addison Grace Drops Powerful New Single ‘I Wanna Be A Boy’

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TikTok star Addison Grace just released “I Wanna Be a Boy”. Writing the fan favourite track led the Salt Lake City-based musician to discover their pronouns – he/they – and “come home to themselves in a way that provided freedom, comfort and genuine love,” a press release states of the powerful lyrics.

Addison Grace wasn’t expecting to release the song outside of social media, but did after it was so well-received. In an interview with B Drop, he shares: “I initially started writing it when I was questioning a lot of things about myself.

I’m very open with how I identify online and I’ve always openly been a queer creator, queer musician, and at that time I was really not understanding how I identified with my gender and how I felt about it, and so it started off as a song about gender roles and how I was jealous of guys and how they got to have certain things I couldn’t have.

With time, I realized it was very much me explaining — in song form — that I wasn’t a girl and that I was nonbinary instead.” The singer says of the fan reaction prior to the official release, “A lot of people ended up relating to the song.