Please join me in welcoming Brendan Maclean to the Music in Demand roster!

Brendan Maclean is an Australian pop artist and LGBTQIA+ icon—an award-winning singer-songwriter and acclaimed stage and screen performer known for powerhouse vocals, theatrical flair, and unforgettable live shows.

In 2017, Maclean made queer-culture history with his now-infamous music video “House of Air.” Shot in London on film and inspired by Hal Fischer’s 1966 essay Gay Semiotics, the video’s explicit, unfiltered celebration of homoerotic subculture saw it banned from YouTube—yet it has gone on to exceed 7.5 million views as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Read the rest of this entry »

Happy sweet 16 to the song and video that single-handedly tanked my major label debut!

Somebody at EMI Records / Caroline Music (or maybe it was John McCain’s daughter, who was on my team at the time lol) decided that Bottom Your Way To The Top was what the mainstream was ready for in 2009, so we led with that.

Reader: Bottom Your Way To The Top was not what the mainstream was ready for.

Anyway, I’m proud that I took this level of f-slur swing way back then, and that this video aired on MTV, VH1, Logo TV and a bunch of other spots. It was controversial at the time, had one hell of a journey getting past the TV censors, and def was a career killer — but we been dancing on her grave ever since! All’s well that ends well. ❤️