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“Seriously, if you haven’t listened to Jeffrey Eli, stop reading this and go listen.” – Billboard
“If you’ve been on TikTok in the last year, chances are you’ve heard Jeffrey Eli’s viral vocal range. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter has been consistently putting out impressive vocal vignettes — and now he’s ready to share his original music.” – PAPER
“Drawing from his own experience as a queer youth, Eli sketches a landscape that feels earnest. Friendly. Fun.” – Flaunt Magazine
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 8, 2024) – Today, rising artist Jeffrey Eli returns with his first new single of 2024, “Wife Pleaser,” out now via Zelig Records/RCA Records. Listen HERE.
After generating fan demand for the track online when he teased it on socials, “Wife Pleaser” highlights Jeffrey’s signature falsetto vocals against a sultry, guitar-forward production. The single flirtatiously bounces between masculine and feminine perspectives, flipping gender stereotypes with clever lines like “I’m in a mini skirt and a wife pleaser, is that a boy or girl? Bitch, I’m the either.”
Of the song, Jeffrey Eli says, “I want ‘Wife Pleaser’ to become a jock jam and a sports game classic. Imagine, anywhere in America, at any and every athletic event, preferably to start the game, pump up the team or even during halftime with elaborate cheerleader routines. My falsetto mixed with the whistle samples and claps blaring from speakers as the jocks and the bleachers all join in, ‘I’m the wife pleaser!’ Honestly, the whole football team hated me in high school, but if ‘Wife Pleaser’ became an athletic anthem, it would be nature healing. I know deep down they all are dying to queen out so bad. This song is my Super Bowl peace offering. I really hope soon you won’t be able to set foot in a sports bar without hearing ‘Wife Pleaser.’”
Garnering praise for his jaw-dropping vocals, Jeffrey Eli has established himself as an artist to watch through his genre-blending, lyrically playful singles that speak to embracing one’s queerness, gender fluidity, and transcending the gender binary. His emotive opus “Sleeping Beauty” was named by Billboard as one of ‘The 25 Best Pride Songs of 2023,’ and his follow-up single “GAY MAN” served as a pansexual anthem. Praised by GLAAD as a “queer pop sensation,” Jeffrey is set to release new music later this year.
About Jeffrey Eli
Before Jeffrey Eli was making pop music to break the gender binary, he was a pre-teen singing online from his hometown bedroom in Norfolk for 3 million followers. After being discovered on the platform by fellow Massachusetts native Meghan Trainor, Jeffrey got his start as a songwriter, cutting his teeth in sessions with songwriters like Corey Chorus, Johnny Simpson, White Gold, SiR, and Liana Banks, all while finishing his high school algebra homework. In 2019, he co-wrote AJ Mitchell’s “All My Friends,” which has amassed over 100 million streams, and started school at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where he honed his production and songwriting skills to develop what he now calls queer pop.
Jeffrey Eli is an artist that is not so much defined by genres as he is emboldened by them; from the dada-art inspired, hyper-pop bop of “Zoom” to the stadium rock of “Sleeping Beauty“- as a chorus of electric guitars swoon in Jeffrey’s angelic plea “It’s not mind or world / It’s not boy or girl / It’s not life and death its birth while living is eternal” sounds as much as a generation-defining artist statement as it does a top-40 hit. At one moment, amidst a backdrop of thumping staccato guitars, his lyrics interpolate psychedelic imagery and investigate his fear of God, while at another, he is packing the emotional heft of years growing up gay into a digestible pop song. Calling upon influences of childhood imagery but with mature storytelling, he writes in dichotomy. His original songs and massive range have garnered him 16 million likes and over 830k followers on TikTok. In 2022 alone, these videos earned praise from the likes of SZA, Chloe Bailey, and Silk Sonic. Now having recently relocated to New York, and with a slew of upcoming releases slated for 2024, Jeffrey Eli is beginning to write his queer fairytale.
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