With the album finally released, there has been particular praise for the single Swing For The Fences, which Carlile conceived as rallying call for the LGBTQ community.
“I’m a gay woman, Elton’s a gay man and we both have families, and our dreams have come true,” she told the NME, external.
“I was thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to write an anthem for young gay kids out there that calls them into a bigger, more elegant, more fabulous life? Just like, ‘Go, go! Don’t let anything hold you back!'”
“It’s a tough time out there for LGBTQ+ people,” Sir Elton told BBC News.
“At the moment when Brandi wrote this lyric, she wanted to say, ‘Listen, fight for yourself. Be proud of yourself who you are, never be ashamed of who you are, and you will win through.'”
