He starts out in an anteroom where his many awards sit in trophy cases through the door, a painting of China's Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol, the art world's most legendary skewed socialite, hangs on the wall.
His journey reenacts the past month's all-too-common transition from public to private.
Public spectacle full#
The photos were taken by the cutting-edge fine artist Catherine Opie.) There is no party, needless to say: Drake strolls his manse alone, clad in the full face mask, gloves and camo jacket of someone trying to dodge whatever's in the air. (Drake also released the first official portraits of Adonis, the toddler son he has mostly sequestered in privacy, this week. He wanders through mostly empty rooms, occasionally demonstrating the song's titular footwork with the goofy charm of a dad feeling casual at a party. The video, which accompanied the entire song's release last night, shows the hip-hop superstar pivoting away from a simple social media challenge to engage with the current moment in typical Drake fashion - it's obvious, artful and, despite its maker's determination to keep things light, sneakily profound.ĭirected by longtime Drake associate Theo Skudra, the video pans through Drake's Toronto home, following the rapper-singer as he opulently self-isolates. Toosie's short clip set off a dance challenge that continues to blaze across TikTok, where teens and others are offering variations on the Cupid Shuffle-like dance. Yet musicians and other artists serve the collective psyche by engaging serious subjects with a playful imagination, and Drake, the master of inserting himself into music's Web-driven conversations, seizes that opportunity with his new video for " Toosie Slide." The song is a seductive confection engineered to cause an Internet stir - which it did after the Atlanta dancer for which it's named ( Toosie, i.e. Nothing in the world is more serious right now than social distancing. In his "Toosie Slide" video, a masked and gloved Drake social-distances in style.
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