Jordy

One Liner:  Pure pop that unflinchingly looks at his life being a gay man

Wikipedia Genre:  pop

Home: L.A. (via Boston and Illinois)

Poster Position: 17
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 11:55am.

BMI Stage.

Thoughts:  Huh.  When you search Jordy in Spotify, you get Jordy Searcy as the top choice, and then two dudes named Jordy next.  One is a rapper, sounds British, and his top track has 22.7 million streams.  One is a sweaty-looking dude who kind of sounds like a boy band guy and has a top song with 23.2 million streams.  You know what is unfortunate?  Back in the day, you could read about ACL artists on the ACL website.  Like, if you had never heard of a band you could click their name on the lineup and go to a short blurb about them.  Now you get nada.  Ah, but Spotify says that the white guy has an upcoming show at ACL.  So, it is not the British rapper (which is kind of too bad, the first track I started had a slick vibe).

C'mon.  This guy is required by me to change his name.  The Wikipedia article about Jordy (artist) is about yet another Jordy, a French singer and musician who is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the youngest singer to ever have a number one single.  The next person on Wikipedia who this could be is Jordy Birch, a Canadian singer-songwriter who was in a band called Pure.  Still not the right guy.  Next in the list (after a lot of Dutch Footballers) is Jordy van Loon, who is a Dutch singer who also reached number one.  Not our guy.  HEY!  Found him.  The fourth one listed is Jordy Shulman, who is apparently an American singer-songwriter who is the grandson of educational psychologist Lee Shulman.  Wikipedia just lists his music as pop, but this very much sounds like the kind of music I would imagine to be playing in a gay club - could be the aforementioned photo of him looking sweaty with some sort of chain over his shoulders.

His first release ever is his most streamed song, which never bodes all that well for someone in my opinion.  But it is a catchy bop.  "Just Friends" has 23.2 million streams.

Hear that boy band ready sound?  Like, you could tell me that was a One Direction guy singing and I would buy it.  Actually, a pretty good song - laying those lyrics down and a good voice to boot.  I bet this was hot on TikTok.  He re-released that song about 500 times on Spotify, and then has lots of singles and EPs and singles with those same singles on there again but with other singles (the world of releasing music now is sooooo weird) and then finally releases his first true album in 2021 - Mind Games.  Only one track on there tops five million, so here is "Long Distance" with 6.4 million streams.

That one is mid for me - not as fun and a little tortured with the cleverness of the lyrics.  Great looking dude though.

Wikipedia is pretty sparse - he's appeared on Kelly Clarkson's show and Jimmy Fallon, and he's been nominated for a GLAAD Award, a Queerly Award, and an iHeartRadio award.  Otherwise, you don't get much background. He is available on LinkedIn though, which I find hilarious.  42 Connections.  I AM SO MUCH BIGGER THAN JORDY ON LINKEDIN!  In one thing he says that he likes to write sad songs that sound happy.  I actually love that.

His next release was 2023's BOY, and nothing on there cracks 5 million streams.  We'll do "Nice Things" because that is the current most popular one although only 2.6 million streams.  This is on his 2024 EP SEX WITH MYSELF.

Feels like am Ariana Grande track but from a gay guy perspective.  It is fine, but not nearly as good as that very first single.

He's weekend two only, so I likely won't see him, but I honestly think this could be a really fun party of a show.