Country star Tanner Adell opened up about her sexuality on the red carpet of the Billboard Women in Music Awards.
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The celebration took place at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 29, and Adell presented Megan Moroney with the Rulebreaker Award on stage.
Minutes before, Out caught up with the "Buckle Bunny" singer and asked about her relationship with the LGBTQ+ community. During our conversation, Adell confirms, "Yes. I'm pansexual."
She has alluded to her sexuality in her music, and fans really began to take notice in "Strawberry Crush."
"It's funny when people ask me my sexual orientation, but I feel like you should be able to hear that in my music," she says. "There's more of that coming."
And the community is certainly showing up for Adell!
"When I have shows, the gays bring it," she gushes. "The gays bring it every time. There's so many asless chaps, and that's exactly that's exactly what I dreamed of, you know?"
Adell first went viral with her country dance single "Buckle Bunny." She was later featured in Beyoncé's Grammy-winning version of "BLACKBIIRD," a cover of "Blackbird" by the Beatles, and appeared with Bey at the NFL's Christmas Day Halftime Show and the subsequent Beyoncé Bowl Netflix special. She recently performed at the 36th GLAAD Media Awards.
And she's just getting started! The singer just released her devastatingly gorgeous new country ballad, "Going Blonde," an emotional ode to her late mother.
"My birth brother found me 3 years ago. I had wanted to meet my birth mother my whole life," she tells Out. "He informed me that she passed away about 5 years before I was able to find him. That was really, really hard for me. I only had pictures of her that he had showed me as an adult. She was so blonde, like bleached blonde hair. I was like, I'm going blonde."
Fans can watch Tanner Adell's music video for Going Blonde below.
