In conversation with Love Bailey, Brendan Jordan, and DJ Larry Tee
Dive into the ultra-glam universe of Love Bailey with our exclusive feature on her new music video, “Don’t Call Me,” and a stunning photoshoot by Easton Schirra. Filmed at ‘The Doll House’—a fab new residency created by Love Bailey and her showgirl BFF Brenda Jordan—this project is all about fierce vibes and unapologetic artistry. Love Bailey’s latest bop, “Don’t Call Me,” featuring the legendary Larry Tee, is here to shake up your playlists. Love Bailey, Brenda had a chat with the ever-iconic Techno Daddy to spill the tea.
Larry Tee: Fabulous!
Love Bailey: Go ahead, ask us some questions!
Larry Tee: How did you go from your hit ‘Hollywood Hooker’ to becoming a trans activist?
Love Bailey: Turns out, I used to live in a Republican town called Transmecula, or ‘Temecula’ as they call it. Temecula means ‘where the mist meets the land.’ It’s wine country, and there are a lot of evangelicals who are taking over the town, making corrupt laws and regulations within school boards to forcibly ‘out’ kids to their parents. So if Jimmy’s wearing nail polish one day, he gets written up by his teacher and has to be sent home to his parents, who might then kick him out and put him on the street. It’s a very violent regulation that is being forced by these evangelicals who are emboldened by a church called ‘412’ who’s run by Tim Thompson. I’ve done a lot of research on this because Ii’m very passionate about advocacy for our community and keeping trans and non-binary safe, especially during this political time. I saw this unjust thing happening, and I had to speak up because I have a loud mouth and I have to say my piece when injustices are happening.
Larry Tee: That’s right, and I hear it made a difference.
Love Bailey: You know, we got someone on the ballot for recall, so it did work. You may not think you can make a difference in this lifetime, but a little ripple can turn into a big wave.
Larry Tee: After having several hit records, now you get a tsunami of influence, you’ve become an influencer basically.
Love Bailey: *Laughs* I hate that word!
Larry Tee: But millions of people have tuned into your advocacy.
Love Bailey: They have. They love to see me read these bitches to filth, because I have zero filters.
Larry Tee: That can’t be a bad thing with your music too. I understand you have a new single.
Love Bailey: I do, that you, Larry Tee, helped me write and produce. Legendary. It’s a banger, and it has a showgirl saxophone in it which we love. It’s called ‘Don’t Call Me’ and it comes out for pride, and it has a music video. I can’t wait to play it for y’all.
Larry Tee: When we were working on coming up with a song together, I just loved your 50s, 60s, and 70s pinup concept and your love of Hollywood glamor. I thought it needed some kind of Charleston-ish meets Chicago vibes. Are your vocals demure and innocent, or are the sexy AF?
Love Bailey: I think sexy, dripping in cum.
Larry Tee: Oh. So what is ‘Don’t Call Me’ about?
Love Bailey: For me, it can mean many things – the creditors stop calling you, your ex to stop calling you, it’s all these negative voices that you want to silence in your life and tune out. That’s what this anthem is about. Personally, it draws me back to a time when I was speaking at these school board meetings, Tim Thompson from the corrupt 412 Evangelical Church, kept calling me. They wanted me to be on his podcast, and they tried to do everything they could, they thought I was so stupid to go on his podcast, for free! Finally, I was like, pay double my day rate, my day rate is $10,000 a day, and I’ll be donating half of it to trans youth, that’s what I require to appear on camera with you. Of course, they didn’t have the budget, but that’s what this anthem means to me – for these fuckheads to leave us alone.
Larry Tee: Did he send you a dick pic?
Love Bailey: No, but I’m sure I’ll find him on Grindr. That’s where we always find these closeted homos.
Larry Tee: I don’t know about you, but if somebody actually tries to call me, it feels like a threat these days, just because I’m so used to somebody texting me saying exactly what they’re going to call me about.
Love Bailey: I tell everyone, I do require a text before call, because then it sets you up. You’re allowed to respond at an appropriate time when you’re in the right headspace. There are certain people in my life, if they call me, no matter what I will pick up that phone and be there for them because that’s the kind of friend I am. If I don’t know you like that, girly, I need a warning. I need a text, or at least a hot dick pic, c’mon.
Larry Tee: Hello?
Love Bailey: Or a budget or something.
Larry Tee: Something that always struck me as wild, and never before really talked-about is your whole ‘sex for money’ idea. I don’t think there’s ever been a hit song that’s been so shamelessly upfront about you ‘put your money where your mouth is.’
Love Bailey: I put it all on the line with ‘Hollywood Hooker.’ I came from a background of sex work. A lot of trans women resort to sex work because its the only way they can pay for their surgeries and survive in a corrupt world where society doesn’t deem us as acceptable members. For us, it’s a means to become who we want to be, and a means to not want to kill ourselves through suicide because we’re so unhappy with our presenting identity. Sex work is a vital source for trans women, and I felt there was a lot of shame around sex work – people discrediting us for doing the oldest practice in the book. I thought, ‘what better way to release that shame than to make a fabulous hit single with a music video?’ It traveled the world, it went from here [United States] to India, to Brazil. I’ve had so many drag queens perform that track and It’s been a tool of liberation for myself and for those who have performed it.
Larry Tee: It’s fabulous. As your friend, I know you still love sex. You know a lot of sex workers, sex just becomes a run of the mill, job. You do not have that relationship with sex, you are horny.
Love Bailey: When people ask me ‘how are you?’ my first response is ‘I’m horny.’ I’m just telling the truth. I love this era of sex work. Now, sex workers are empowered to own their own image, to have Onlyfans, they don’t have to take on clients that they don’t want to. There is a lot of empowerment in sex work these days, that’s what I love about the future of social media, though unfortunately we are being censored a lot. Though there are still outlets for us to monetize our good looks, honey.
Larry Tee: Trans people can often become limited in that way of what they can do, but that is not the case for you right now! You are working on at least four different television projects right now. What projects are we going to find at The Savage Ranch?
Love Bailey: The Savage Ranch is a non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing animals, we have horses, pigs, chickens, cowboys, lesbians, and we also have a non-profit artist residency. We’re dedicated to sharing space with marginalized artists who need a place to create free from discrimination. We’ve had all kinds of gatherings, from raves to orgy’s, to workshops, to music videos. It’s a beautiful, 50 acre property nestled in nature for you to explore and find your own hedonistic wild fantasy.
Larry Tee: Wow. So I hear Heidi Fleiss found her hedonistic fantasy out there.
Love Bailey: We won’t talk about Heidi Fleiss, listen if these readers want to learn more about my story, they can go to TMZ.com and type in ‘Heidi Fleiss and Judy Savage’ and you can read all about it baby.
Larry Tee: Crazy. Now what TV projects are you working on?
Love Bailey: We have a show at the Edition hotel. It’s a queer cinema show with 13 queer artists. It’s a visual showcase where I play an Elvira like character introducing all these talented young stars. We’re also in the works with you, doing an ‘icons international’ project.
Larry Tee: I realized now that I’m based here in LA, there’s such a scene around the Hollywood dolls. I can only imagine the rest of the world wants to know what’s happening here in this really unique city.
Love Bailey: We share that skill of poaching talent. We’re really good at finding stars and illuminating them. That’s why we’re here.
Larry Tee: You are the best at that. It’s such a good thing for Hollywood that you moved closer to town from Transmecula, because everytime I find someone fabulous, I can almost always guarantee they’re already in Love Bailey’s Instagram feed.
Love Bailey: Well they live with me! Her name is Brenda and she’s my talented, show stopping daughter. We’re so grateful that we found each other to live in this gorgeous old Victorian brothel here in Echo Park. We can’t wait to see what the future has in store for us two fiercely talented, sex-positive, empowered gingers. We just want to share our stories and use our voices.
Larry Tee: I can only imagine it will be trouble, iIn all the best ways. I think it’s that time – I just moved here from Berlin, and everyone there thinks that LA is where it’s happening. If you say ‘I’m from Berlin’ in LA, people go ‘oooooh’ but in fact, everyone seems to see LA as more New York right now.
Love Bailey: Hollywood is where it’s at baby. That’s where the showgirls and the Hollywood starlets are. I was raised by my showgirl grandmother, and I’m so happy to live in a place where I wake up and see the Hollywood sign everyday.
Larry Tee: So you can actually see the Hollywood sign from your window?
Love Bailey: Yes Ma’am.
Larry Tee: I’m looking at it right now too, isn’t this the life?
Love Bailey: This is the life. We’re very grateful for our privilege, but that’s not to say that we don’t recognize our privilege and understand the state of the world right now. That’s why we fight so hard to advocate for basic human rights.
Larry Tee: You’re privileged in that that you’re a white girl with a hot ass.
Love Bailey: I’m Persian!
Larry Tee: There’s still a lot to be said about a trans person that makes their own way without apologizing, without trying to fit inside the heteronormative system. You let it all hang out, and that’s my definition of presenting privilege in a positive way.
Love Bailey: Me and my sisters love our ‘She-nisses’ we’re not here to fool anyone, or transform to be something we’re not. We are trans women. We’re not a cis woman, we’re not a biological woman, we have a shenis, a fierce tranny cock, and we’re very empowered by that. We don’t shame our body parts anymore. We’re not trying to be ‘passable’ anymore in society, in fact, we love when we stand out and are the center of attention.
Larry Tee: Wow, that’s a powerful fucking message. Especially right now, politically. I think trans artists are the new gangster rappers, because they’re fucking illegal in 20 states here! That just means to me, if you’re on the edge of society in this way, there is a tsunami of interest for your upcoming projects.
Love Bailey: Well listen, we just have a trans agenda, we’re just trying to groom the world to all be trans. I’m actively slipping Estradiol into people’s drinks, in their makeup, you know. Brenda and I have a tranny cult photoshoot we’re doing at the Church of Scientology later, for another magazine. We’re booked and blessed over here, Larry. Do you have any final questions for my daughter because she’s going out there in the world and she could use some advice from a fierce icon like yourself.
Larry Tee: Well I’m not going to give advice, people should turn to you for advice. Somehow, you have captured the imagination of a generation of girls, gays and theys that want to know how to do their own thing. What advice would you give a white cis male, 64-year-old trend setter?
Brenda: I feel like no matter who you are, you’re always going to be in your own way. A lot of these ‘business executive men’ are constantly hiding behind a shell of insecurities and it makes you think ‘oh wow, they can be quote on quote successful but still not have a clue what they’re doing, they’re scared of the future and rejection too. We’re all human at the end of the day. The only advice I can give is ‘you have to live your life for you, and your life doesn’t look like anyone else’s.’
Larry Tee: No I was talking about advice for my skincare.
Brenda: I would recommend you stay up until 3 am every night drinking and smoking cigarettes, and then sleep with your makeup on. That’s my best skincare advice.
Love Bailey: He’s sober.
Brenda: Oh. Then stay up and go to bed with your makeup on.
Love Bailey: Suck more dick. You need some cream of some young twink on your face.
Larry Tee: Cream of Twink, mhmm.
Love Bailey: Are you writing this down?
Brenda: Add cream of twink to the potion.
Larry Tee: Brenda, when are you are you going to take it to the television?
Brenda: That’s a really interesting question, I feel like the world of television has been given the opportunity to have folks like me, not even play trans roles. There are some roles that are just personality based. I don’t know why some of these characters are usually written for men, it’s funny or quirky. I think anyone can fill that role, but unfortunately the chances of that happening are slim to none. I’m creating my own space right now.
Love Bailey: The problem with Hollywood Larry, is that trans people aren’t given a seat at the table when it comes to making the characters of a show. Writers, directors, producers, they’re mosting cis women, and a handful of cis women. There are a handful of trans filmmakers like Zachary Drucker, our Lady J, they are out there, but Hollywood doesn’t give them enough opportunities to tell their stories.
Brenda: There are some trans production companies that are springing up right now. I think Candis Cayne just made a production company.
Larry Tee: Candis Cayne and Danna Davis!
Brenda: I would love to do something Macabre. I love horror, I love comedy, I love blending that with some Campiness.
Love Bailey: I could see us doing a horror film together.
Larry Tee: You already are whores!
Brenda: Horrific Whores!
Love Bailey: Terrifying and beautiful. I see whores in our future.
Larry Tee: Yes, and it’s good to get paid for your work. Everybody’s a whore really.
Love Bailey: At the end of the day, whether you’re sucking dick, selling your ass or selling diamonds, we’re all whores in this together.
