{"id":139722,"date":"2025-03-25T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=139722"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:50:36","slug":"katseyes-lara-raj-spills-the-tea-on-her-sexuality-shes-queer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/katseyes-lara-raj-spills-the-tea-on-her-sexuality-shes-queer\/","title":{"rendered":"KATSEYE\u2019s Lara Raj spills the tea on her sexuality: she\u2019s queer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lara Raj<\/strong> from rising K-pop-adjacent group <strong>KATSEYE<\/strong> created major buzz when she told fans she\u2019s \u201c<strong>half fruitcake<\/strong>\u201d during a Weverse chat, officially coming out as queer. The talented performer says she\u2019s known about her identity since she was a kid, even before turning eight. Now, she\u2019s thrilled to share her truth,\u00a0 explaining that \u201chalf fruitcake\u201d felt like a fun and fitting way to describe herself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1904118922665693417\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KATSEYE\u2019s Lara comes out as queer via Weverse:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew i was half fruitcake when i was like 8 so i really was wanting everybody. Honestly probably before 8. Isn\u2019t \u201chalf fruitcake\u201d such a good way to explain it without saying it?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0syKRpszuc\">pic.twitter.com\/0syKRpszuc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1904118922665693417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lara gained recognition on <strong>The Debut: Dream Academy<\/strong> reality show, ultimately joining KATSEYE alongside Daniela Avanzini, Manon Bannerman, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza, and Yoonchae Jeong. Worried at first that her sexuality might be a problem to get in the girl group, she&#8217;s now seeing that fans completely embraced her.<\/p>\n<p><iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/intl-es\/album\/48t47MKCsynkPx3rRg7EWr?si=4bqPXBs7QJqOtK2ZN8G_KA\" title=\"Spotify Embed: SIS (Soft Is Strong)\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/48t47MKCsynkPx3rRg7EWr?si=4bqPXBs7QJqOtK2ZN8G_KA&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, KATSEYE has been focused on making a big splash in the music industry. The girl group dropped their pre-release track &#8220;Debut&#8221; followed by their first official track &#8220;Touch&#8221; in 2024. After that, the group released their EP &#8220;<strong>SIS (Soft Is Strong)<\/strong>,&#8221; which contains songs like &#8220;My Way,&#8221; &#8220;Tonight I Might&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m Pretty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Raj from rising K-pop-adjacent group KATSEYE created major buzz when she told fans she\u2019s \u201chalf fruitcake\u201d during a Weverse chat, officially coming out as queer. The talented performer says she\u2019s known about her identity since she was a kid, even before turning eight. Now, she\u2019s thrilled to share her truth,\u00a0 explaining that \u201chalf fruitcake\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":139724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[3392],"class_list":["post-139722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","tag-katseye"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}