The photography and fashions are wildly fresh, but the song’s processed vocals not so much. Released in 2010, ‘Get Away with Murder’ and ‘Beauty Killer’ are ultra-slick videos reflecting the world of a very bad girlyboy in her “strawberry youth,” a world ruled by vanity and lite sadism.įor 2012’s ‘Prom Night’, the pink-schemed video is a mashup allusion to the stalker movie Prom Night and Julie Brown’s song ‘Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun’. Though twenty years younger and on the opposite coast, Jeffree Star is similar to Aviance in avant-garde androgyny, deep voice, and hard beats. Aviance’s most political release, in 1999, is a cover of Nitzer Ebb’s angry ‘Join in the Chant’, its video dedicated to hate-crime victim Matthew Shepard and the activists who marched in response to his death.Īviance was fortunate to have survived a gay-bashing several years later, attacked outside a Manhattan gay bar by seven men shouting “fag,” etc., and only four were tried and convicted. Looking in the video like a cross between Grace Jones and the Mad Hatter, Aviance poses on a giant drum while singing machinegun be-bop to the fervent beat.Įven when covering Britney Spears’s ‘Gimme More’, both the song and its video are concerned only with reinterpreting-not parodying. And ‘Din Daa Daa’ is a throw-down remake of the club classic with not a drop of parody. Bald-headed and titless with a deep voice, Aviance brings drag ball realness to the video for 1996’s ‘Cunty (The Feeling)’. Watching music videos by Kevin Aviance and Jeffree Star, their talent and their uniqueness cannot be separated. Just as it’s tempting to rank a drag performer using her own voice above the lip-syncers, so it is with serious remakes and original songs over parodies. The third part looks at the drag queens who sing their own original songs, as well as the future of the DIY YouTube video. Loudermilk writes about the drag queen YouTube videos that are as transgressive as they are outrageous. Part 3: The Original Singers, the Original Songs, and the Future of YouTube Drag In this 3-part series, A.
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