Three years after frontwoman Lzzy Hale publicly came out as bisexual, Halestorm released the track “Like a Woman Can,” a song she previously described as “Venus asking Mars to meet her in the middle during a bisexual awakening.” In a new interview with GO Magazine, Hale opened up about how her partner’s reaction to her coming out helped inspire the song.
“I was channeling how lucky I am to be in a relationship with a man who understands me and lets me live my truth,” she said. “I was also thinking of so many of the young women and men who I know that are having a hard time having the ‘by the way, I’m bi’ conversation with the person they love. It’s a complicated fire that requires constant conversation and trust to feed it.”
Hale continued, explaining how difficult it can be to navigate relationships as a bisexual person.
“This includes hard talks about jealous feelings, creating boundaries, and what you need to feel loved by one another. Every bi individual has their own spectrum. It is unique to them, their needs, their fantasies, and the lines they will or won’t cross. When I came out to my partner, I was worried about all the things that would change. Would he still look at me in the same way? Would he feel threatened? I felt like I needed to protect him from the crazy, beautiful, complicated mess that is ME.”
“But what I learned is that he fell in love with me because of all the things I am and all the things I’m not,” she added. “And now we get to admire beautiful women together, turns out we have the same type. Ha! And being able to live as my truest self alongside the person I love is the greatest gift I can give to both me and also to him. I showed him that he was my safe space: I love him and trust him enough to show him every side of me and know that he will love me unconditionally. And that is the ultimate showing of love.”
