#also can i just say regardless of anything else he suits the bi colour palette SO much

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

I’ve heard some people say that Miles was close to coming out as bi in his Coup de Grace era, do you know why?

i don’t know what miles’s relationship to coming out is (or what his sexuality is, for that matter) but the whole coup de grace era definitely marked a certain… change in tone when compared to his previous eras. i think a lot of people feel coup de grace was him being more unguarded with/making a statement about his sexuality for a few different reasons that i've listed below!

(**please note this is all purely speculation. to my knowledge, miles has never made any kind of public announcement about his sexuality and we should respect that**)

• colour coding - the whole album palette is literally the colours of the bi flag, and these colours were echoed a lot in the live shows too

• flamboyance - we all know miles has always enjoyed fashion and experimenting with different styles, but the direction he went with coup de grace was definitely different than anything he’d done before and had a lot more camp/androgynous/queer influences. see: eyeliner, full faces of make-up, jumpsuits, loud patterns, brighter colours (super interesting as a juxtaposition with the darker, more heartbreaking lyrics of that album but that’s another ted talk)

• lyrics - coup de grace is raw, honest and painfully heartfelt in a way none of miles’s previous albums were. it feels like an unfiltered glimpse into his psyche, and for an album all about heartbreak… well, hardly a single female pronoun is used in the entire thing. there are also an abundance of lyrics that seem to allude (not too subtly) to a certain mr turner (see things like: “interstellar dressed in leather drinking bitter boy/you knew the plan but you never knew the ploy/but i, i live a lonely life/since you’ve been gone” and the entirety of shavambacu after we know it’s something miles has called alex for years), and a relationship of having to keep things hidden/sharing hearts. after watching their dynamic unfold over the eycte tour and then the aftermath, it's easy to draw the conclusion that the heartbreak in miles's album could be about alex.

given how candid miles is in all the writing of it, it seems like if that is the case (which is a big if, obviously this is all just speculation), it's at the very least a way of no longer hiding his sexuality, and at the most a more deliberate, blatant statement of it. a lot of people think that coup de grace was miles's way of coming out without using words - which journalists would inevitably have used to twist things, overshadow his music, or throw speculation and gossip onto his friendships with people like alex. of course, none of us really know what miles's relationship with his sexuality is or how that relates to his coup de grace album/era, but yeah... i think those are the key points that a lot of us find very interesting 👀

i may well have missed stuff out here, so if anyone has any other thoughts on this please feel free to chip in!