Jakob Welding is a queer pop artist and songwriter creating intimate, synth-driven music that lives between nostalgia and immediacy. Drawing on the emotional language of 80s pop while maintaining a modern, minimalist sensibility, his songs favour atmosphere, restraint, and emotional precision over spectacle.

At the centre of Jakob’s work is an interest in closeness — how desire forms, how intimacy lingers, and how people choose softness as a way of staying connected, even temporarily. His lyrics often focus on moments rather than resolutions: nights that feel suspended in time, relationships defined by proximity rather than permanence, and the quiet tension between wanting and knowing.

Queerness in Jakob’s music is present as perspective rather than theme. Love songs address men without explanation or framing, allowing desire and vulnerability to exist naturally and without translation. This approach gives the work a sense of specificity while remaining emotionally open and accessible.

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