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The Naughty Ghosts are back on Spotify.

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FutureQueens Light it Up

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FutureQueens Stage

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FutureQueens Lace & Leather Promo 1

Out November 30

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FutureQueens City Lights Promo 3

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Lace & Leather Teaser

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FutureQueens City Lights street promo

City Lights

Our final song City Lights from our EP is available on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"This intimate melodic track adds a vocally softer sound to their debut EP."

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FutureQueens City Lights promo

We all wish everyone Happy Halloween!

FutureQueens Halloween promo wrap up

Naughty Ghosts

Our Halloween single Naughty Ghosts is out now on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"FutureQueens brings a touch of fun and flirty to Halloween"

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FutureQueens Halloween promo - Creepy Clowns

FutureQueens Halloween promo - Scary Skeletons

Painted Red

Our song Painted Red is out now on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"A haunting and chilling emotional song escaping physical abuse."

Because of the subject matter this was the most difficult song for us and took the longest time to write. Please listen on Spotify, we are most proud of this song.

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Halloween Music News

Kelly, Peggie and Isa are busy working on our Halloween song. But so far the tone and concept is not quite right. So at this stage we are unsure if it will or will not happen in time.

Also we would like to be making music videos that have high quality. Anyone with good MV camera and editing experience who can help please let us know.

FutureQueens Halloween promo - Don't be scared!

FutureQueens Halloween promo

FutureQueens Halloween promo

I Wanna (15)

Our 1980's inspired English song I Wanna is out now on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"A retrospective love letter capturing 1980s dance."

This song is rated (15) so please do not listen to the song if you are not 15.

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FutureQueens promo

Bounce Bounce (With Me)

Our new English b-side Bounce Bounce is out now on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"A hyper fun energetic bouncy pop song."

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FutureQueens promo

FutureQueens fan sign and promo

FutureQueens Hong Kong

Enjoy if you missed it.

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FutureQueens promo shots

Stepping Up

Our new English single Stepping Up is out now on Spotify ♪ iTunes and Amazon music.

"A fast paced unpredictable song blended with jazz elements."

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FutureQueens local fansigning event

Release Date: 1st October

Our new English single Stepping Up will the released on Spotify, iTunes and Amazon music on the 1st October

The single is taken from our upcoming EP called Casting Crowns

(1. Stepping Up 2. Bounce Bounce 3. I Wanna 4. Painted Red 5. City Lights)

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!

(Even when we didn't know what we were doing!)

And a big thank you to anyone who supports us!

Let's all step up together!

xoxo

K-pop is the best example for me. Look at how many saesangs are there. The idol contracts are so strenuous that they are dubbed as slave contracts. They aren't allowed to date as they and the people they date will be harassed by fans. Imagine thinking you are entitled to a person's private life just because they chose to be a k-pop idol and that they shouldn't date as they belong to you. A lot of idols face this. It's so stupid.

Parasocial relationships aren’t inherently unhealthy. Usually, they’re a perfectly normal and healthy way to experience media. You know what are examples of parasocial relationships?

Kids dressing up in costumes and pretending to be the sidekick of their favorite superhero.

Teens daydreaming about hanging out with members of their favorite band.

Adults reading a funny memoir and finding they now feel positively and care about the wellbeing of the person who wrote it.

Sports fans celebrating because their favorite team won a championship.

Watching a talent show and cheering when your favorite performer wins.

These are enjoyable and typically harmless experiences. Because relationships (parasocial included) are not inherently healthy or unhealthy–it all depends on the parties involved, and the behavior on both sides.

Parasocial relationships become unhealthy when we as audience members over-invest emotionally, fail to set proper boundaries, have unfair/unrealistic expectations or make intrusive demands (for individual attention, for emotional reciprocation, for the other party to serve as a best friend, a lover, a savior, a therapist), or engage in harassment when these expectations are not met. Or, alternatively, when the person/group/corporation on the other end misleads their audience, or uses their influence irresponsibly or exploitatively, or makes promises they cannot follow through on.

Unfortunately, we are seeing a rise in most of these things, in part because the way we consume media has changed very very quickly, and we as a culture have not had enough time to react sanely to these changes and establish healthy behavioral norms around them.

Many of us are struggling with how the illusion of intimacy has hyperevolved—the faces we once saw only on theatre screens and magazines, celebrities who were so removed from us by distance and medium, are now on our phones, in our homes, sharing their private lives with us in previously unimaginable detail. Instead of scripted interviews & crafted photoshoots, we get casual selfies & tweets & constant updates about their clothes & food & activities & private lifestyles. We get videos of celebrities talking to their camera (to us) directly from their own home—as if we are being invited inside. All of this happening on the very same social media platforms and in the same language we use to communicate with friends. Of course our brains are going to get confused, especially if we haven’t been taught how to draw the right boundaries when it comes to watching people in the spotlight.

And most of us haven’t.

Which leads us to what I think is the real problem—not parasocial relationships but Celebrity Culture. This whole culture we’ve been building for decades around inappropriate and invasive interest in the private lives of public figures. Celebrity & paparazzi culture has always encouraged deeply unhealthy patterns of behavior, and it’s been around a lot longer than the internet. But the attitudes it embodies have become the basis for how we treat and think about “famous” people online, and for the shape that parasocial relationships take in the social media age.

The problem isn’t that we’re forming parasocial relationships. Humans will always form parasocial relationships. Jesus christ, religion itself probably fits the definition of a parasocial relationship—what is more parasocial than inventing a god? The problem is that we are forming these relationships without a clear understanding of what constitutes healthy boundaries, reasonable expectations, and appropriate behavior, on all sides. Form as many parasocial relationships as you like, but figure out how to keep them healthy. Manage your expectations, be respectful of privacy, be aware of when you are becoming too involved, know when to step back, and don’t expect it to take the place of interpersonal relationships—your relationships with people who know you exist, and want to reciprocate your time, energy, and interest.

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