Grammy award-nominated singer-songwriter Tayla Parx has generally been location. Hailing from Dallas, the 30-12 months-outdated multihyphenate grew to develop into just the fourth Black lady in history to create a Nation Airplay No. 1 with Dan + Shay’s “Glad You Exist” (2021), and a handful of months ago, Parx moved to Nashville.

There, she has been constructing a sustainable ranch while prepping her forthcoming 3rd album, Numerous Moons, A lot of Suns (out on her TaylaProduced Information), which explores the surprising close of her engagement and combines nation, rock, property, soul and present-day pop. “I’m shopping for goats, sheep and cows,” she says of her new property. “I’m now thrilled about the music that I’ll develop just currently being in this article.”

Beneath, Parx previews her new album and demonstrates on queer pop stardom. 

What’s the to commence with detail you did when you woke up these days? 

The incredibly 1st issue I did when I woke up these days was load a tractor. I obtained a tractor to are living in and my buddy just dropped it off. I have been performing the job on my tiny ranch. 

What drew you to Nashville?

I begun to seem down in this report preceding calendar year, but it is feasible 3 or 4 months ago, I officially was [here] entire time. I’m even so in Los Angeles the moment or 2 occasions a week, but this is my property. 

What was a essential second on the journey to your new album?

Becoming in a position to just take 4 a extended time, I at final was like, “I come to feel new once more.” [We] go by suggests of these feelings of breaking down and producing up and breaking down your new edition of yourself … I’m in that minute now. [That’s] when it is the appropriate time for me to create, or finish, the album.

Past year you co-wrote on Troye Sivan’s “Got Me Started” and Janelle Monáe’s “Water Slide.” Did you carry any inspiration from folks sessions into your possess?  

We have a problems in the songwriting planet exactly where you will see a queer artist and they have only straight writers on the project, and that is a bit bizarre. Or we see a female artist and they only have straight adult males as writers, and that is also a small bit bizarre. I’m not stating we can not have that viewpoint, mainly because I have written for a substantial quantity of distinctive folks these days and I have not professional their variation of day-to-day life. Even so, it is regularly important to have at least somebody be a aspect of the venture that can see you in a definitely distinctive way — and most likely which is given that they are queer. So I’ve been deciding on to create with a entire lot of artists [with whom] I can publish from that standpoint. I have been a excellent deal far more selective these days.

“Era” has main ballroom power, as does “10s.” How did examining your marriage impact your influences even though recording?

We have that ballroom power, New Orleans electrical energy, all the matters that I have professional in my each day living that are such a enormous portion of queer culture. With “10s,” I played a ton with pulling from my neighborhood, the distinctive seems that inspire us and make us move. I definitely wished to go to the significant. A entire lot of the new music that is the most groundbreaking is ballroom. We’ve been pressured to be out of the boundary, or located as that, for so extended that it was like, “F–k it. Well, I may as nicely be the finest variation of me — and do me to the max.”

When you had been coming up, who had been getting the songwriters that constructed you really feel most noticed? 

I sense like I’m just now acquiring an chance in the preceding various years to have artists that essentially make me really feel viewed. Around 2015, I was listening to Marika Hackman’s “Boyfriend,” and it is a queer song and I knowledgeable in no way heard a issue lyrically like [that.] That’s not to say that there [aren’t] any queer artists that have been out there at the moment getting quite forward, I’m just saying what spoke to me. Getting born in ‘93 and a teen in the 2000s, it’s a incredibly diverse situation. 

If you had to select 3 essential tracks from the new document, what would they be? 

I would say, “Standing Up to the Wind,” “Gentlewoman” and “I Really do not Speak About Texas.” 

Past the album, what are your techniques for the rest of the year? 

We are getting once more on the street. I’m super fired up merely mainly because it is been a moment mainly because I’ve been on the road. I went from constantly touring to making use of a break and basically generating it feasible for the songs to seem. We acquired some insane sustainable and biodegradable merch coming, which is seriously excellent. And a lot far more behind the scenes of the course of action — I’m creating specific that all the points inside just the TaylaProduced atmosphere demonstrates [my] values.

A version of this tale initially appeared in the June 22, 2024, difficulty of Billboard.