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. ❤️

Happy 18th birthday to the Feed Me To The Wolves EP, released on this day in 2007 alongside the music video, which premiered on Logo TV and turned me into a cable TV gay for the next 5 years.

Forever grateful to MTV for believing in me back then! The video played across all of their channels for the better part of a year and it absolutely changed my entire life.