There are artists who perform desire, and then there’s #BoyBlu, who has made a whole world out of it. On his debut EP Eye of Desire, the LA-based artist arrives fully formed: slick, sweaty, a little unhinged, and completely intentional about all three.
Built alongside executive producer
@iamgregorydillon , the project is the natural evolution of what “Platinum Pleasure” started — a retro-futurist, slutty dark pop universe that has only gotten more specific, more detailed, and more itself with every track. But underneath the gloss is something rawer: a reckoning with what it means to twist yourself into shapes that aren’t your own just to stay wanted — by a partner, by friends, by the world.
@theboyblu knows that feeling intimately. He lived it. And then he made an EP about it.
Read the full #MARVINMagazine exclusive with
@theboyblu at marvin.la. Link in bio.
Photography by
@trevorpaul.photos
Styling by Brandon Ruiz and
@kellyroselovesu 
