Meg Stalter Shares the Ella Langley Song That ‘Made Me Cry’ & Teases What’s Next for Her Music Career
Categoria: Musica
Stalter, dressed as an astronaut, talked to Billboard backstage before headlining the Grindr Pleasure Ball.
Por Billboard | 26/10/2026
Meg Stalter isn’t joking about her music. Except when she is. Dry, satirical, willfully uncomfortable but never cruel, Stalter’s outside-the-box comedy is undeniably her own. From her viral “Hi, gay!” clips to costarring in the Emmy-winning Hacks to starring in Broadway’s Oh, Mary! from July through September, Stalter’s career is an unusual negotiation between queer niche and mainstream appeal. Her music follows suit. The Cleveland-born comedian-actor’s debut album, Crave , is layered with satire and social commentary, but it also serves up some genuinely delightful electropop camp. Last Thursday (Oct. 22) in Manhattan, Stalter performed at the Grindr Pleasure Ball. A sci-fi-themed fete attended by Adam Lambert, Dominique Jackson, Christian Siriano, Susanne Bartsch, Joey Arias and Anna Delvey, the invite-only event boasted a Halloween costume contest hosted by the irrepressible Dashaun Wesley and judged by Bartsch, Siriano, Kelly Cutrone and Grindr’s Tristan Pineiro. Bopping around the stage in an astronaut suit, Stalter sang “Prettiest Girl in America,” “Famous Me,” “Gay” and more Crave tracks while ribbing the glitter-and-paint-covered crowd. She repeatedly stopped one song to demand people make FaceTime calls during her set; at another point, she (jokingly) dressing down an Aladdin Sane look-alike for talking while she was singing. “Gay people live for a diva. They really do. That’s why people love the show I was on, Hacks ,” Stalter told Billboard backstage prior to her performance, which followed her live musical debut at WeHo Pride Street Fair in June. Yes, Stalter the pop star is playing up the diva antics for comedy, but she’s also singing exactly the kind of dance-pop you hear bumping out of queer nightclubs from coast to coast — and having a blast doing it. “I think there’s something about really being yourself … Truthfully, I think gay and queer people like to see someone being exactly who they are. When I’m on stage, I am who I really am — I feel the closest to my inner child. I’m up there being silly or doing very serious music because I’m having so much fun.” Courtesy Grindr While it’s hard to shake the feeling that any and everything Stalter does is a bit, she told Billboard there’s an empathetic element to “Famous Me,” a Crave song about rich but unhappy pop stars. “No one feels bad for pop stars or famous people because they seem to have the world,” she explained. “When you hear it, a lot of people might think I’m joking but I’m not. I do feel bad for pop stars for people don’t feel bad for.” Queer audiences have always loved a diva — from Judy Garland to Britney Spears — for what they’ve been through, not in spite of, but because of their downs. Lucky for Stalter, the only Downs in her life is Paul, the Hacks costar — with whom she shares an awkward, hysterical chemistry — who joined her at the 2026 AMAs in May and on Watch What Happens Live in August. From DIY social clips to HBO