Is It Cold In The Water? (track)
by SOPHIE
Year: 2018
From the album Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (track #4)
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Is It Cold In The Water? appears on the following album(s) by SOPHIE:
- Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (track #4) (this album) (2018)
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| ! | 10/06/2025 15:45 |  DeusExMackia | 8,085 | 80/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2025 10:15 |  Rockdrigo | 742 | 82/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 20:04 | mttr-in-plc | 1,997 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/01/2024 12:31 | AndyLish79 | 12,767 | 84/100 |
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DeusExMackia 10/06/2025 15:49 | #311243
SOPHIE's loss is unbearable even 4 years on, but by far the worst thing for me is that we lost one of the best articulators of the queer experience of our generation. We are blessed to be living in an unprecedented time for gay music that is out, openly, loudly and proudly. Much of that is thanks to her, in particular the many fantastic artists she worked with.
Even then, not one of them holds a candle to the way she depicted what it means to be queer, the arresting analogy of 'Is It Cold' not just a visceral rendering of her transness, but a milimetre-accurate feeling of the weight of the worlding bearing down on your sexuality. What it means to face out to a world that has genuinely got better in its treatment of us, and yet is still full of so many foxholes that the sense it could all slip away in a moment remains ever present.
This is the sound of facing up to oneself, the unstoppable need to live your truth, against the immovable object of society's image of you are. But with all those torrents of synths, building and building with rage and hurt and potential and burning passion, SOPHIE crashes out the track on the knowledge that with this one under your belt, nothing can truly stop you.
Oil Of Every Pearl remains one of the greatest statements of queerness in living memory, and this is it crux.
Serious contender for song of the year.
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