Twitch Influencer Releases Queer Rom-Com Song, How It Feels

On The Table Read, “the best entertainment magazine in the UK“, Twitch influencer Emily Henry has released a new single, How It Feels, inspired by queer pirate rom-com, Our Flag Means Death.

How It Feels

DC- based alt pop singer-songwriter, and popular Twitch influencer, Emily Henry has released a new single, How It Feels, completely funded by her dedicated Twitch community. The song is a celebration of falling in love, inspired by the romance between the main characters of the queer pirate rom-com Our Flag Means Death.

“It’s a love story between two middle aged men, both of whom are finding something good and real for the first time in their lives,” explained Emily Henry. “Their fumbling romance is sweet, awkward, hilarious, and deeply relatable.”

Emily Henry

Emily Henry is a DC-based singer-songwriter who performs her own personal brand of elegant, emotional indie pop. Known for her powerful yet sweet vocals and an authentic musical instinct, she has been compared to artists such as Joni Mitchell and Sylvan Esso.

In the upheaval of 2020, Henry took her music to the wide world of livestreaming and has built a strong online community on Twitch.tv, where she hosts live concerts three times a week for a growing audience from all over the world.

As a child, she began writing songs as soon as she was old enough to communicate. Enthralled with reading, storytelling, and fantasy, young Emily Henry would write melodies to the poems and lyrics recited by her favorite characters.

Her debut EP, Matchsticks, brilliantly showcases Henry’s angelic vocal strength while taking her music down a slightly darker, more mysterious road. The songs of Matchsticks unearth the complex emotions hidden inside stories both fictional and true, the spoken and the unspoken, in the little moments and in the big, transformational turning points — all done with a light folk-infused touch and a razor-sharp pop sensibility.

Find more from Emily Henry now:

https://www.instagram.com/emilyhenrymusic

https://www.twitch.tv/emilyhenrymusic

https://twitter.com/emilyhenrymusic

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