Lesbian Pop, But Make It Intimate: Meet the Artist Claudia Allmang

Carla Fuster
4 days ago
2 min read

The Barcelona singer turning queer feelings, raw emotion, and real-life contradictions into bold, atmospheric soundtracks for anyone living life a little too intensely.

Barcelona-based artist Claudia Allmang describes her music in the simplest, sharpest terms: “I make lesbian music.” But behind that playful declaration sits a universe of contrasts —softness and seduction, euphoria and pain, politics and instinct all colliding inside her sound.

For Claudia, intimacy doesn’t live in the shinny final product. It thrives in the messy, private process of creation. “One thing is the result,” she explains, “another thing is everything behind that. That’s where the intimacy survives for me, 100%.”

Her sonic palette pulls from the dualities she’s drawn to in people. She’s fascinated by those who embody both tenderness and danger, and she channels that tension into her production. Sound comes before lyrics in her world, and feelings before meaning. She wants listeners to experience her music viscerally, letting the textures speak first. “I want the sound to make them feel things more than the lyrics, like all this pain and darkness in queerness, but also the happiness, the freedom, and the euphoria.” Even when she isn’t trying to be political, queerness turns the message into one.

Pop, she argues, travels so fast and so directly that it becomes inherently powerful. “Pop can be so political because it reaches people so quickly,” she says. “Siempre es político.” Still, she resists the pressure to intellectualize everything. She writes first, analyzes later. “I never think when I’m writing. I just need to write.”

Her biggest challenge right now is trusting contradiction. Especially the contradictions inside queerness itself. She’s learning to be at peace with the shifting emotions that fuel her work. Sometimes catharsis looks like doing everything; sometimes it looks like doing nothing at all. “The important thing is knowing when to act inside this creative process,” she says, “Doing nothing is necessary to feel everything.”

Claudia’s references range from sonic innovators to visual artists, all feeding her constant evolution. What guides her most are the artists who act like emotional permission slips. Those who remind her that queerness is expansive, chaotic, and never complete.

She holds a clear boundary, though: empathy is non-negotiable. “Empathy awakens tenderness,” she says, “and tenderness makes people understand why transphobia and biphobia have no place in Sapphic spaces. Not in my circles.”

Her hope is not necessarily to build a new world, but to spark new conversations. She wants people around her to question heteronormativity, and discover freedom in stepping outside of it. Looking back, she never imagined she’d have so many queer references or such a community around her. That younger version of herself, she says, just needed to hear one thing: you’re safe here. And that’s ultimately what she wants her audience to feel, euphoria, safety, and connection. “Just enjoy the moment, feel yourself.”

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