Witchy Lesbian Christmas Music From Mr. Cindy and Mya Byrne!
Mya Byrne teams up with Mr. Cindy & The Smokers (Cindy Emch) for this poly Christmas song that's a gift from the goddesses.
Not sure if there needs to be any more explanation after that headline, but just in case: Mya Byrne and Cindy Emch of Secret Emchy Society have teamed up for their haunting holiday song "It's Xmas, Baby." Emch is releasing the song as part of her new side project Mr. Cindy & The Smokers.
"Cindy and I have always had a vibe of 'what if Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn were both lesbians' in our relationship, both musically and personally, and while this isn’t the first time we’ve been each other‘s foil in a duet, I think this is the natural evolution of how our songwriting relationship started—which was the two of us finishing a bottle of bourbon at our friend’s party back in 2015 and spontaneously writing a song in the style of the Louvin Brothers about it—which is on her last SES record," says Byrne.
"It was really funny too…we were hoping to get in an IRL song session while I was in town but we kept missing our chances. I call myself a songwriting top, and so of course the second Cindy had a minute of downtime after Christmas party, I sat down with her wife’s guitar with my girlfriend Emma sitting next to me and was like, with consent, 'Cin, we are gonna write a song and bat this ball back-and-forth'—just for funsies—and then Cindy, with her writer’s skill wound up turning this late night scrap of improvisation into something really special on paper, and I recorded my vocal at home with my nesting partner, Swan."
"Mya and I have a longstanding tradition of being music nerds together, so it was no surprise to me that at a recent holiday party, when she picked up a guitar, we started improv-ing our version of a Dean Martin holiday duet," recalls Emch. "If Dean and Frank had been lovers who were actually witchy lesbians that were just… having a lot of longing and lonely feelings on Xmas - this is that song. "
"I really like queering the hetero duet canon," says Byrne, "and to me, making something that is sounds like a sweet and loving non-problematic long-lost lesbian version of 'baby it’s cold outside' feels like a Xmas gift from the goddesses."
