She sings, she dances, she drums, she writes songs about unrequited love with members of the same sex and is unabashedly outspoken about, well, everything. She doesn’t drink, smoke or fit into a size 0, but marches at Pride, is BFFs with Taylor Swift and was a YouTube sensation before she was even signed to a record label. If you want to know what a popstar looks like in 2019, look no further than Hayley Kiyoko.

Before social media, young women in the music industry were manufactured and media trained. But today’s wave of female artists comes in all shapes, sizes and sexual orientation: Lizzo plays the flute while twerking and raps about self-love; Halsey sings about being bisexual; and the openly queer Kiyoko has