As we close out pride month we felt it would be appropriate to feature the latest music from our friend, and client, Drake Jensen. We were introduced to Ottawa based country artist Drake Jensen through one of our photographers and started working with Drake to help promote the release of his latest single “Burn The Floor”. Drake has been receiving praise from around the world for the video that accompanies the single critics calling it a pure celebration of queer identity. Billboard Magazine said “If you thought that modern country and queer clubbing don’t go together, you thought wrong. In his new video for “Burn the Floor,” Canadian country singer Drake Jensen chooses a seemingly typical country bar as the backdrop to his country-twinged song, but with various members of the LGBTQ club community taking over to have the night of their lives and, yes, “Burn the Floor.”
Instruments of Change: An Editorial About Why You Can Always Sit With Me And Why I Will Always Sing For You
The times may be a’ changing, but not quite fast enough.
Before Green Day won Grammies for singing of an American idiot, and Rage Against the Machine urged us to take the power back, The Clash wrote intricate songs about isolation, poverty, utilitarianism, and cultural upheaval. Before Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature, his songs were recited and replayed over and over at picket lines across the United States when citizens took to the streets to protest the Vietnam War. Before Dr. Dre was selling his headphones to Apple and being treated like hip hop’s elder statesman and Ice Cube was making movies about barbershops and Jump Street, the “Niggaz With Attitude” were challenging police corruption and slapping us unapologetic-ally with a lyrical portrait of their realities in South Central, Los Angeles.
