Taste Test: Jake Frost goes ‘Undercover’ in new video
The pop arrival frames fluid movements as a metaphor for the queer battle in his new video.
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Queer folk fight a daily battle to be heard. While the landscape has certainly shifted since the events of Stonewall Inn back in the late ’60s, we’ve got a long way to go…still. Feeling the fire fill his lungs, New York’s queer-pop singer-songwriter Jake Frost bulldozes down the barriers with his cataclysmic visual for “Undercover,” choreographed by fellow dancer Marquise Hitchcock and directed by Razieme Iborra. The abandoned warehouse looms as an imposing figure, a bigoted system perhaps, but the provocative movement piece, highlighting Frost’s fluid motions while giving him new wings with which to soar and float outside of himself, seeks to deconstruct such seemingly insurmountable formations. “Nowhere to run / Sending me off my wire / Stole my tongue / Every time he lingers / No one around / Waiting for my answer,” sings Frost, allowing the heaviness to rise as smoke rings into the sky. There’s a stunning rebirth to be cherished here, and Frost is a marvel onscreen.
“Undercover” is lifted from Frost’s 2018 EP, Loveless.
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