Meg Stalter Releases Second Single “Gay” from Debut Album Crave

Meg Stalter put a new song back into the world this week, the second single from her debut album Crave. Titled “Gay,” it is a dance-pop track locked onto Pride season. Over a clean electronic pulse, Stalter runs through a list: “lipstick lesbians,” “the dolls,” bisexuals, “the they (period).” She sums up the vibe deadpan: “Everything we do is slay.” At one point she describes herself “gaying up and down.” It moves with the same comic timing she brings to her screen roles, just set to a beat.

Stalter’s path here has been deliberate. Known for turns in Hacks and Lena Dunham’s Too Much, she first made her music ambitions visible last month. That was when she premiered “Prettiest Girl in America” at a Meg Stalter lookalike contest in Bushwick’s Maria Hernandez Park. That track leaned rock. “Gay” pushes toward the club. Her public instructions arrive with the song: “Play this song in the gay club.”

Crave will not appear until late summer. For now, “Gay” slots cleanly into the logic of a moment already thick with anthems, a short and functional addition to this year’s Pride playlists.