Frank Ocean releases “In My Room” lyric video
Frank Ocean has released a lyric video for his new single “In My Room,” coinciding with the track’s digital release. The background visuals feature the same vintage disco ball used to light the dance floor at his recent club night events, PrEP+.
The disco ball is seen spinning above Justice as he plays his remix of “Dear April” during Frank Ocean’s first PrEP+ club night, held at BASEMENT at Knockdown Center in NYC on October 17, 2019.
Ocean described his inspirations for the series and its disco decor in a Tumblr post after night 1 on October 17:
Club culture around late 70s and 80s nightlife in NYC was a special, much-talked-about and written-about thing. From the star-studded midtown clubs like Studio 54 and the first danceteria to the downtown clubs like Mudd + Paradise Garage. The figures, the music, the looks, the lack of regulation, haha. I recognize NY wasn’t all lasers and disco lighting, and that simultaneously, there was a lot of crime and poverty, and that a huge part of club culture, the gay community, at that time were being wiped out by HIV + AIDS. Now in 2019, there’s a pill you can take every day that will, at a better than 90% chance, prevent you from contracting HIV. This pill was approved by the FDA in 2012. The pricing strategy behind it is malicious, in my opinion, and so its public perception is marred and rightfully so. But the fact remains that, despite price being a very real barrier to this potentially life-saving drug for some, the other very real barrier is awareness. I decided to name what was otherwise going to be a night of lights and music inspired by an era of clubbing that I loved “PrEP+” because while designing the club—which is inside of an old glass factory basement in Queens (shoutout to the BASEMENT that runs a very awesome techno night on Fridays after us)—I started to imagine in an era where so many lives were lost and so much promise was lost forever along with them, what would it have been like if something, anything had existed that in all probability would’ve saved thousands and thousands of lives. I’m an artist; it’s core to my job to imagine realities that don’t necessarily exist, and it’s a joy to. […]
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