{"id":2446147,"date":"2019-07-09T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=856982"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:26:58","slug":"jana-hunter-dresses-in-new-wave-chic-in-lower-dens-i-drive-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/jana-hunter-dresses-in-new-wave-chic-in-lower-dens-i-drive-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Hunter Dresses in New Wave Chic in Lower Dens\u2019 \u2018I Drive\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/teeth.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lower-dens\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lower-dens\" data-tag=\"lower-dens\">Lower Dens<\/a>\u2019 singer Jana Hunter brushes his teeth in a snazzy suit and grooves alongside dancers in the indie pop band\u2019s new video for \u201cI Drive.\u201d The track is the second single off their upcoming album <em>The Competition<\/em>, out September 6th via Ribbon Music.<\/p>\n<p>Shot in monochrome and directed by Jason Nocito, the video features dancers Stephannie Henriquez and Steven Jeltsch surrounding Hunter in a synth-pop haze. \u201cWe had streets,\u201d he sings, snapping his fingers and staring into the camera through mysterious shades. \u201cBut now there\u2019s just police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike a lot of queer and trans people, I\u2019ve learned that real family is made, and it isn\u2019t necessarily blood,\u201d Hunter said of the track in a statement. \u201cEven my blood relatives, we work for that familial connection and trust. This song is about leaving behind obligations to people who don\u2019t love or care about you, being with and about people who do. It\u2019s a feeling so strong it\u2019s driving me. That\u2019s the driving I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Competition<\/em> is Lower Dens\u2019 fourth album \u2014 its predecessor, <em>Escape from Evil<\/em>, was released in 2015. The band released their first single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lower-dens-young-republicans-music-video-842032\/\">\u201cYoung Republicans\u201d<\/a> last May. \u201cThe issues that have shaped my life, for better or for worse, have to do with coming from a family and a culture that totally bought into this competitive mindset,\u201d Hunter says of the new record and the theme of competition. \u201cI was wild and in a lot of pain as a kid; home life was very bleak, and pop songs were a guaranteed escape to a mental space where beauty, wonder, and love were possible. I wanted to write songs that might have the potential to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jana-hunter-i-drive-video-856982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Dens\u2019 singer Jana Hunter brushes his teeth in a snazzy suit and grooves alongside dancers in the indie pop band\u2019s new video for \u201cI Drive.\u201d The track is the second single off their upcoming album The Competition, out September 6th via Ribbon Music. Shot in monochrome and directed by Jason Nocito, the video features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 03:17:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}