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WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA- Even before Kalie Shorr took the main stage at Outloud Fest, her presence could be felt. The early afternoon sun hadn’t yet peaked, but attendees already began gravitating toward the front rails, drawn by whispers of a set not to miss. Clad in a custom Shania Twain-inspired outfit by queer designer Maranda Nichols Persico and backed by an all-female band, Kalie stepped onto the stage with a defiant grin and the swagger of someone who has survived—and is ready to sing about it.
She opened with the biting and brilliantly confessional single “My Type,” a track originally written in 2017 and shelved due to industry pressure to remain closeted. Now restored to its original pronouns and fully realized, the song is a firecracker of queerness and self-awareness wrapped in early-2000s alt-rock energy. From the opening line—”Told me he was an artist, he left out the ‘con'”—Kalie’s sass and energy were infectious. Even with an early afternoon time slot, she had the crowd hyped and moving.
That same spirit carried through the rest of her set, which featured a mix of unreleased material and tracks from her forthcoming EP My Type, due July 11. Songs like “Man In Your Songs” gave glimpses into the emotional reckoning at the heart of this new era: messy, loud, brutally honest, and proudly queer.
After the set, as the sun began its golden descent behind West Hollywood Park, I met up with Kalie to shoot portraits and talk through her performance, her music, and the story behind this next chapter.
“I feel really good about it,” she said, beaming when asked about how the set went. “My band is just a group of some of my best girlfriends who are, you know, a mix of—they’re all femme, trans. Like, it’s really important to me to be surrounded by people who understand the experience. And uplifting other queer artists… it just feels like a very safe space to get to create.”
That ethos of community extends into the making of the My Type EP as well. Kalie, who has songwriting credits with All Time Low, Mickey Guyton, and Upsahl, leaned heavily into collaboration with LGBTQ+ producers and creatives. “This is a brand-new era,” she explained. “We only had two rehearsals, and they just crushed it. I only have fun if all my friends are having fun. So when I go out there, I’m like looking at them, like, ‘Are you guys having a good time?’ And that gives me the energy to really put on a good show.”
The new single “My Type” is more than just an earworm; it’s a reclamation. “I was told if I wanted to release that song when I wrote it in 2017, that I would have to change the pronouns,” Kalie revealed. “And I was like, ‘Nah, I don’t wanna do that because it totally compromises the message of the song for me.’ Now that I’m out and I have a team who’s incredibly supportive of me being queer—that’s just been really special.”
The lyrics—”I like those rock and roll boys / Stare into my soul boys / Make me lose control boys”—are as catchy as they are revealing. Kalie sings openly about romantic chaos, dating patterns, and the thrill of emotional volatility, but always with a wink and a sharp self-awareness. “I think it’s cool to release this as like a portrait of my romantic life, and then we’ll kind of explore like why I am this way,” she said, laughing.
When asked if the genre-hopping chaos of her music mirrors her personal journey, Kalie didn’t miss a beat: “I can’t make my mind up about what gender I’m attracted to, so of course I can’t make my mind up about what genre I want to make.”
That kind of honesty—and humor—has defined her career. From the feminist anthem “Fight Like a Girl” to her viral series How I Got Unfamous, Kalie Shorr has long balanced vulnerability with a punk-rock smirk. At Outloud Fest, she proved that she’s not just owning her queerness—she’s turning it into the loudest, proudest, and most authentic version of herself yet.
As our interview wrapped, she joked, “I just went out on stage. That’s more important to me than anything. Like, okay, she’s not texting me back—whatever. I got to play West Hollywood Pride. Who cares?”
Kalie Shorr didn’t just perform at Outloud Fest—she arrived. Loud, proud, and defiantly herself.
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