Is Missy Higgins Lesbian?

As a public service for all those fascinated googlers, here’s the answer. I don’t know. But in the April 2005 issue of Rolling Stone, she had this to say:

Everyone is a bit bisexual… but not everyone admits it. Or not everyone has realised it yet.

That’s all. Nothing more to see here. Move on.

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595 Responses to “Is Missy Higgins Lesbian?”


  1. 1 KimNo Gravatar

    Who cares anyway? I want to know - is Fenella Kernebone a lesbian?

  2. 2 MarkNo Gravatar

    I do note that I agree with Missy on this one, but I think Freud said it first.

  3. 3 KimNo Gravatar

    Except Intruder Blonde from BB, I don’t want to admit her to any club that I’m a member of. I actually felt for Dean tonight!

  4. 4 MarkNo Gravatar

    I’m liking Dean more since he’s the cover boy for a brisvegas gay rag.

  5. 5 KateNo Gravatar

    I actually just watched that BB episode tonight (we’re a bit behind over here in WA) and what’s with the dummies? And the dancing? And that blonde girl with too much fake tan? It’s so… so… horrible. I feel kind of depressed and lonely after watching it. IS this the desired effect?

  6. 6 MarkNo Gravatar

    Kate, to immediately cheer yourself up, visit Ausculture Jess for her take. The whole point of the show is to inspire gossip, make phone companies rich because everyone texts all their friends during episodes, and to start discussion on blogs. The blonde girl is Intruder #1 that Kim’s talking about - Jess has all the good oil on the spokesmodel for fake tan.

    It’s the po/mo equivalent of dissing your neighbour or the happily eccentric folk in Seachangeville where everyone knows everyone else’s name.

    Oh, and from my past experience, BB gossip is a great way to fast forward that flirtation with a special someone into relationship territory (and then to produce relationship anxiety as the final ep approaches!)…

  7. 7 hayleeNo Gravatar

    i think missy higgins is a LESBIAN i h8 her she cant even sing

  8. 8 hAyLeENo Gravatar

    All my friends at school think she is a lesbian we want 2 know cause we bet about it (we bet in slices) every1 in my grade finks she iz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    if u listen 2 her song special tune listen 2 the lyrics closley!!!!!!!!

    we have this thing about is missy higgins a lezo i rekon dhe is bubi xxxxxx

  9. 9 MarkNo Gravatar

    Sorry, Haylee, can’t help you there. No new hot goss here.

  10. 10 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    …reaching a new demographic Mark?

  11. 11 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    You’re so f*cked Lefty Elitist. You’re discriminating on the basis of age and literacy, and I think you’re a latent chauvinist at that. Why, you’re casting aspersions on the future of our nation, the Missy-Higgins-sexuality-questioning-and-then-despising YOUTH.

    So where’s that gravatar of yours? Have you decided between an image of Pajero (heh) car keys and a Greens how-to-vote card?

  12. 12 MarkNo Gravatar

    I am inclined to agree with Haylee that Missy Higgins is vastly overrated as a singer.

  13. 13 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    well at least I’m out of the closet Liam ;0

    Alas, been to busy for my gravatar project - but believe me, its top of my list (just as soon as I’ve ragged on some more semi-literate dyke-hating scrubbers from East Bogan High). I like the Pajero keys idea - but am leaning towards a chardonnay glass / french clock ensemble piece….

  14. 14 MarkNo Gravatar

    Pinot is the new chardonnay, Lefty E.

  15. 15 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    we have this thing about is missy higgins a lezo i rekon dhe is bubi xxxxxx

    <chaser>These People Vote!&lt/chaser>

  16. 16 the saintly alan greenspanNo Gravatar

    Does anyone else think that Ms. Higgins looks rather like Lyndie England? OK, then.

  17. 17 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Im thinking of leading a movement back to Rose, Mark. Tres Fabian.

  18. 18 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Dunno, Saint, lets get her to leash someone nude and see. Volunteers? Perhaps Tim Rogers would me the man fo the job.

  19. 19 Jason SoonNo Gravatar

    I don’t know who Missy Higgins is but as for lesbianism, I highly recommend that connoisseurs of fine cinema should rent the 1983 film The Hunger starring David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve. It’s not every vampire film where you get to see Susan Sarandon get it on with Catherine Deneuve.

  20. 20 KimNo Gravatar

    Soundtrack is good too! It’s all round an excellent film.

  21. 21 KimNo Gravatar
  22. 22 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    We are legion…. and we are international. Join us. Fear not the populist fatwa! Rejoice!

    http://www.cafepress.com/liberalelitist

    Throw off your faux-suburbanism, refine your pursuits, you have nothing to lose but your nation!

  23. 23 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    I want one of those. A shirt like that’ll show off my wimpy left-wing lack of upper-body strength.

  24. 24 MarkNo Gravatar

    Right, where’s that credit card?

  25. 25 KimNo Gravatar

    For my amputee pride moments, I recommend this t-shirt.

  26. 26 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Nice, Kim. I like to see myself as participating in a Pride Movement too.

    Yes, bugger you, Howard battlers, you self-negating bunch of masochists, hear Lefty Elitist proudly raise his wine glass and quote our national bard, Henry Lawson.

    Now salute this … or Ill have you reported as un-Orstrayan

    They work scab, and vote Tory,
    they are truly the deserving poor.

    and another pithy line, still relevant 100 years on

    “I’m in favour of the war, and of half-a-dozen more!”

  27. 27 KimNo Gravatar

    Hmmm, I can do lefty elitist pride, single leg amputee pride, American citizen pride (doesn’t come in handy that much these days), Sephardic Jewish ancestry pride, lesbian identified bisexual pride, and no doubt a few others. Ain’t identity grand?

  28. 28 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    I’ve told you about my historian mate’s karaoke song, though, haven’t I Kim?

    I’ve been to identity politics…
    but I’ve never been to Me.

  29. 29 KimNo Gravatar

    And I think I’ve mentioned I’m actually pretty anti-identity politics, Liam. Still, useful to have a number of available identities.

    Good tune!

  30. 30 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    Still, useful to have a number of available identities.

    As a lot of Chinese diplomats are currently discovering right now, I imagine.

  31. 31 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Dont know Kim. Identity is largely voluntarist for a white, male, middle class, lefty elitist like me. Not even particularly gay. Hopeless!

  32. 32 KimNo Gravatar

    But that’s what makes you an elite, Lefty E!

    Off to Hammer the Horror - c ya!

  33. 33 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Indeed Kim, out and proud. Now, I have a date with Proust in my Boudoir.

    But DO give me a yell if anyone farts or scratches their a*se live on BB.

  34. 34 harryNo Gravatar

    Yeah, her singing’s alright. I think she’s a pretty good lyricist - definately above average.
    But the best thing about is that she’s not bloody Delta, and she’s taking all the air time devoted to ‘chick with piano’.
    Good work I say.

  35. 35 Paul NortonNo Gravatar

    So Josh Cunningham isn’t the real reason she hangs out with The Waifs. . .

  36. 36 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    Lefty Elitist. I don’t know whether you’re still around of if you’ve gone off to the Megalong Valley for a long long weekend away. Here’s a suggested gravatar image, 80px2 should you want it:

  37. 37 liam hoganNo Gravatar
  38. 38 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    hehe. Je suis le elite?

  39. 39 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    Mais non. “L’etat” c’etait le Roi Soleil, apr√®s Bonaparte. La monarchie c’est simplement ‘Unrepresentative Swill’.

  40. 40 FyodorNo Gravatar

    Avant Bonaparte, M .Tête de Patate.

  41. 41 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    Before, after, whatever. It’s all a bunch of privileged ruling-class historical constructs embedded in language anyway.
    I’ll stick to Spanish.

  42. 42 harryNo Gravatar

    I am France, and France is me!
    Now, die for me.. err, I mean France.

  43. 43 sammi sweetieNo Gravatar

    i don’t care if she’s gay…maybe it’d be good, it could inspire people if she was forward about it, people would accept it

  44. 44 aUsSiENo Gravatar

    I dont really like missy higgins, i think that she is sort of doing a repeat of what T.a.T.u did, and i hated that because it was stupid. So basically I think Missy Higgins is a phony.

  45. 45 KimNo Gravatar

    I’m starting to feel like I want to share some of the Missy Higgins love.

  46. 46 William WallaceNo Gravatar

    Missy Higgins is excellent. Her ‘Sound of White’ CD is one of the best australian albums in years. She is a very talanted singer/songwriter and a great live performer. I first heard her at the Tsumai ‘wave aid’ concert in Sydney earlier this year and am now a dedicated fan (despite being a 45 year old who grew up in the era of hard rock and likes his music loud).

    To those sad individuals out there who are attacking her you are ‘not worth pissing on’ in my opinion. Go get a life!

  47. 47 elle and jenNo Gravatar

    can someone find this out IS MISSY HIGGINS A LESBIAN?? i am currently sitting in history on the computer and i am overly board.. plese

  48. 48 harryNo Gravatar

    She’s bi.
    Chill.

  49. 49 dracNo Gravatar

    I hope she is bi, I would let her have it! HOT

  50. 50 SachmoNo Gravatar

    I don’t care. But I do like her hair.

  51. 51 MarkNo Gravatar

    Sarah Blasko is much cooler than Missy Higgins. And she looks like my friend E.

  52. 52 MarkNo Gravatar

    It’s better to look like Sarah Blasko than to resemble Popper, on the whole.

  53. 53 LukeNo Gravatar

    Pardon my observation, but the title of this postis the most irrelvant question I’ve ever seen.

    Right on a par with “what shape is yellow?”

  54. 54 Russell AllenNo Gravatar

    Banana-shaped

  55. 55 KimNo Gravatar

    Is Sarah Blasko lesbian?

  56. 56 MarkNo Gravatar

    I don’t know, Kim. Perhaps we could ask her when she plays Brisvegas next month.

    In other music news, the Bowery has some excellent lounge organ jazz with the Hammond Trio on Wednesday nights. And I think the fillin Friday night DJ, Jane Grigg, is someone I went to uni with. (Brisvegas half a degree of separation syndrome predicts that she is).

  57. 57 KimNo Gravatar

    Kewl!

  58. 58 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Cripes…. Did Sarah Blasko just catch the last bus in from Babe City or wot? Any good musically?

  59. 59 MarkNo Gravatar

    Very good musically!

  60. 60 MarkNo Gravatar

    And she is definitely the musical hotness.

  61. 61 jordanNo Gravatar

    Just visiting. What’s the big deal? Umm Missy Higgins ….is a young woman who either enjoys intimacy with men or women or both…so what?

  62. 62 taraleeNo Gravatar

    omg..missy higgins rocks..i love her..she is so not a lesbian!!

  63. 63 Brash KoalaNo Gravatar

    WTF? Missy Higgins is lesbian?!!! No way!

  64. 64 BrookieNo Gravatar

    Missy is Bi…thats 100% true guys ok..shes awesome, get off the topic..

  65. 65 SquealerNo Gravatar

    Brash Koala ,

    Well think about it she’s got short hair. Maybe she’s into sport too?

  66. 66 Buck NekkidNo Gravatar

    She probably plays cricket and listens to Indigo Girls.

  67. 67 armaniacNo Gravatar

    Your headline alone gave me imagery that only a moment’s privacy can remove.

  68. 68 KimNo Gravatar

    I’m bisexual. Just saying… Who wants to get nekkid?

  69. 69 MarkNo Gravatar

    Ha! Kim, Homer could learn something about subtlety and puns!

  70. 70 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Ok, Ill bite after all this hoo-ha:

    Who’s Missy Higgins?

  71. 71 KimNo Gravatar

    She’s a singer, Lefty E. Pretty over-rated in my view, folksy pop, discovered by JJJ, now topping charts everywhere etc.

  72. 72 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    thanks Kim… My apologies, I do know about Ms. Missy…. Just taking out my elitist aesthete persona out for a stroll by feigning ignorance of popular phenomena again.

    Tedious of me, I know, but its be so long since I got to not watch BB.

  73. 73 ZoeNo Gravatar

    You can not watch “Inside Idol” tonight Lefty. I’ll join you.

  74. 74 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Excellent Zoe, you’re on. Thats’s one of fave avoids.

  75. 75 i like decent musicNo Gravatar

    Missy Higgins has the most annoying voice I have ever heard. Her songwriting is poor, as are her lyrics. She is way too overrated. It seems that all it takes for a female singer to be ‘talented’ nowadays is to have a boy’s haircut and belt out a load of contrived nonsense while strumming a few simple guitar chords. All her songs sound the same…can this girl only write in a major key? She reeks of Dawson’s Creek.

  76. 76 I like short shortsNo Gravatar

    “She reeks of Dawson‚Äôs Creek.”

    Sheesh. You say that like it’s a bad thing. Besides, sexual ambiguity is apparently the new hotness. Still don’t know if Sarah Blasko is lesbian, however.

  77. 77 SnowballNo Gravatar

    “all it takes for a female singer to be ‘talented‚Äô nowadays is to have a boy‚Äôs haircut and belt out a load of contrived nonsense”

    Sure ILDM, you just don’t like her cause she’s a lesbian, or bisexual or something. They wouldn’t player her on the radio so much if she wasn’t good!

  78. 78 Mambo #5No Gravatar

    “They wouldn‚Äôt player her on the radio so much if she wasn‚Äôt good!”

    Au contraire, boule de neige. They play Ben Lee on the radio, and that’s the way I don’t like it, ‘cos he sure isn’t good.

  79. 79 NabakovNo Gravatar

    Arrgh, you can keep all your Huggi Blasko alt.country “n’ moan chickadees.

    Me, I’m quite happy with the classics.
    http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/index.cfm?articleid=6028
    http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/2005/09/bush-2005.html
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15922267&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=wow–bush-is-back–name_page.html

    47 years old and still with far more va-va-voom than all these Missy hussies.

  80. 80 NapoleonNo Gravatar

    Just ‘cos you don’t like Ben Lee M5, doesn’t mean he’s not good. That’s just your opinion, and they play him and Missy on jjj so its not like its just commercial stations. I think you are all jealous because they are young an v. talented.

  81. 81 The Man with the Child in his EyesNo Gravatar

    Well, Bony, you’re right about the jealousy of youth. The talent bit is hard to stomach. WTF is the sound of white, anyway? Something like this?

    Oh, yeah, what Nabsy said. Bring it on, Babushka.

  82. 82 KateNo Gravatar

    OMG I can’t believe you just said that. Missy Higgens is the best not-very-talented singer songwriter since Joni Mitchell!!!!

    You guys r juz jealous becuz you don’t get all the hottt girl on girl action like Missy duz!

    (Somebody kill this thread now.)

  83. 83 armaniacNo Gravatar

    There’s definitely an air of “oh, our crap pop idols were deeper than yours man” about some of these discussions.

    Higgins is no Dylan (hat tip CS et al) but she is very good at what she does and holds herself out as nothing more, as far as I can see. Ben Lee struggles, and labours under FIGJAM syndrome to excess, but anyone who’s dated, then lost, Clare Danes deserves some support.

  84. 84 MarkNo Gravatar

    Has Missy Higgins dated Clare Danes? I’m jealous!

  85. 85 ElizajoeyNo Gravatar

    Whatever you think about Missy Higgins, least she does all of us a global service by getting fucking Delta Goodrem out of the spotlight!

  86. 86 MarkNo Gravatar

    That is soooooooooooooo true, Elizajoey!

  87. 87 shellyNo Gravatar

    i think missy higgins is a lesbian and a lipsniger at that bye

  88. 88 Don't call me ShirleyNo Gravatar

    WTF? R u sre she is a lipsniger?! No waaay!!!

    Actually, I now can’t stop thinking about fucking Delta Goodrem. Thanks, kids.

    /sniggers

  89. 89 MinimusNo Gravatar

    What’s wrong with a tallented young girl being a lipsniger! Leave missy alone and enjoy the music cya!

  90. 90 blahblahNo Gravatar

    Kim,
    Fenella Kernebone is a lesbo. A friend who used to work for ABC confirmed it. Not only that, i saw her at the last sydney film festival afterparty all dressed up in a femme tux - not many breeders would do that!

  91. 91 harryNo Gravatar

    Why.
    Does.
    This.
    Thread,
    Not.
    Die?!

    Maybe Missy Higgins is a zombie.

  92. 92 hersNo Gravatar

    WTF is is a lipsniger? Hmm google doesn’t bring it up, except for here, which must means that some idiot brought up the word and the rest of you followed.

    FFS …

  93. 93 MarkNo Gravatar

    Harry, imagine what will happen to the slumbering corpse of this thread when stimulated by Aria voodoo!

  94. 94 veeNo Gravatar

    okay, I’ve left this for long enough

    shouldn’t the question be - “can missy higgins sing?”

  95. 95 DarleneNo Gravatar

    This post seems to have lasted the distance.

    If you are that interested, why don’t you just ask?

    Missy Higgins is a good singer.

    These days you can fall in love with whatever consenting adult you want to and not define yourself by a label.

  96. 96 Evil PunditNo Gravatar

    Hers, your post is offensive to the lipsniger community. You need some sensitivity training.

  97. 97 MarkNo Gravatar

    Lipsnigers r da bomb!!

  98. 98 KimNo Gravatar

    Thanks, blahblah for that info - next question - can anyone suggest a way of letting Fenella know I think she’s the filmy hotness and would like to hook up - I mean, without representing me as a crazed stalker?

  99. 99 KateNo Gravatar

    You could make a film, Kim, and enter it into Tropfest…

    Of course, that’s taking a long-term view.

  100. 100 harryNo Gravatar

    “You could make a film, Kim, and enter it into Tropfest”
    That’s genius!
    “without representing me as a crazed stalker?”
    Represent yourself as the ultimate fish-out-of-water: it’s such a strong meme to play to filmwise, and allows you to be infinitely interesting that people will simply be falling over themselves to buy you drinks in the hobnob tent. _then_ let the crazed stalker out in triumph.

    I thought this years finalists weren’t a patch on last years.

  101. 101 ZarquonNo Gravatar

    Arrr, be Missy Higgins a pirate, yo-ho-ho and chest full o’ booty?

  102. 102 KimNo Gravatar

    Thanks, Kate and Harry!

    Perhaps I could play a pirate - if I can get a wooden leg from somewhere!

  103. 103 NabakovNo Gravatar

    Frankly it’s beneath my dignity to indulge in displays of cod slang simply because some scurvy drivelswigger decreed today be the day for such blog banyanin’.

    Oh OK then, since you asked for it. The final lines of the first grown up book (ie: “no pictures”) I read (and still have the original weatherbeaten clothbound copy) - “Treasure Island”.

    “The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: ‘Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!‚Äô”

    And I first read that while listening to the surf booming out on the reefs. Arrgh!

    Oh yeah, Missy Higgins? Never heard her. And from what I’ve heard of her, I have no desire to hear her.

  104. 104 NabakovNo Gravatar

    “Your comment is awaiting moderation.”

    Oh for fuck’s sake! All I did was quote a little RL Stevenson. There’s a blog template engineer out there that could use a little keelhaulin’.

  105. 105 NabakovNo Gravatar

    Oh right?. OK.

    Incidentally the funniest pirate book I’ve read is George MacDonald (”Flashman” & the screenplays for Dick Lester’s Musketeer fillums) Frazer’s “The Pyrates”. Do yerself a favour, etc.

    I suspect Elliott & Rossio borrowed from it for “Pirates of The Carribean” far more than they could consciously admit.

  106. 106 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Speaking of lesbian lipsnigers, did anyone ever read ‘Coral Island’ as a wee Pirate? I think it were me fav’rit, n’aaaar.

  107. 107 NabakovNo Gravatar

    “…did anyone ever read ‘Coral Island‚Äô as a wee Pirate?”

    No.

    Why?

  108. 108 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Good book. Of the treasure island variety, but better IMH ex-O as a wee pirate. cant remember the author. Maybe Ill google.

  109. 109 FyodorNo Gravatar

    Given your fondness for Tim Powers, Cap’n Nabsy, I’m nore than a little surprised you haven’t mentioned his voodoo pirate novel, “On Stranger Tides”. Cap’n Teach was a bad man in many ways…

    Harry, you scurvy seadog, do you remember this thread? Absolument bizarre, n’est-ce pas?

    I think we need to make the “Kimberella, Queen of the Pyrates” movie right fecking NOW. You can write the screenplay and Nabsy should direct. Her Hotnessness will play herself, natch, and we’ll persuade Haiku Hoges to be her cabin boy, or somesuch. I’ll do something unproductive like produce, and get to collect the Troppo award off La Kernebone for me trouble.

  110. 110 Lefty ElitistNo Gravatar

    Thats it - by RM Ballantyne. The boys own novel that inspired Lord of the Flies. Fantastic.

  111. 111 NabakovNo Gravatar

    How could I not do this.
    I ran “Smoke on The Water” through a Pirate translator.

    ” Aye, we all came out t’ montreux On the lake gene’a shoreline T’ make records with a mobile.

    We didn’t have much time, Frank zappa and the mothers ‘o’ War at the best place around.

    But some daft with a flare gun burned the place t’ the ground.

    Smoke on the water, pillage for what li’l booty thar may be in the sky. They burned down the gamblin’ house. It died with an awful sound.
    Funky claude was runnin’ in and out. Pullin’ kids out the ground. When all was o’er ,We had t’ find another place. but swiss time was runnin’ ou, iIt seemed that we would lose the race.

    Smoke on the water, maroon on the next patch o’ desolate hell we see’ in the sky.

    We ended up at the grand hotel It was empty cold and bare, but with the rollin’ truck stones thin’ just outside.

    Makin’ our music thar, with a few red lights and a few old beds, ee make a place t’ sweat No matter what we get out o’ this I know we’ll ne’er forget Smoke on the water, keelhaul at noon in the sky,

    A pence for an old man o’de sea?”

    Arrrgh!!?!?!

  112. 112 liam hoganNo Gravatar

    I can see your producer values now, Fyodor. Is the order of the day to be “Never put your own money into a show”?

    Cabin boy nothing. I demand a decent part as either a second-rate villain or victim. Either way, I want the chance for decent overacting, to do a bit of fencing and get a good long death scream.

  113. 113 NabakovNo Gravatar

    Oh yes, “On Stranger Tides” is a funky rum buckler of a book.

    Elliot & Russio could not have come up with the underwater zombie pirate marching scene in PiraCarib without absorbing Tim Powers, RL Stevenson and Jacques Tourneur - directly or/and through a funky Jungingly psychic story telling fog.

  114. 114 Nabakov