DEBBY FRIDAY — All I Wanna Do Is Party

JUL 01 2025 · 12:00

DEBBY FRIDAY — All I Wanna Do Is Party (2025) Director: Kevan Funk & Debby Friday (co-directors) Era: Post-Hyperpop Electro-Club Era (2025) - Canadian experimental dance-pop vanguard; hyperpop and trance aesthetics merge with disciplinarian conceptual art-pop on Sub Pop's international roster High curatorial value as a document of one of Canadian experimental pop's most critically celebrated artists at a pivotal career moment — the post-Polaris Prize sophomore statement. The video's fusion of institutional choreography, celestial mythology, and rapid kinetic editing makes it a significant artifact of 2025 art-pop visual culture, and its co-directorial authorship model reflects evolving norms in artist-driven music video production. Recommended for preservation as a primary visual document of the Sub Pop / Royal Mountain Toronto experimental pop scene. Context: Released April 30, 2025 as the second single from Debby Friday's sophomore album The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life (Sub Pop / Royal Mountain Records, August 1, 2025), following her 2023 Polaris Prize-winning debut GOOD LUCK. The video arrives at a moment when Canadian experimental electronic artists are receiving significant international critical attention, with Friday positioned as one of the most distinctive voices in the post-hyperpop, electro-club space. The dance-class setting encodes a tension between institutional discipline and individual transcendence — a metaphor for navigating fame, craft, and artistic identity post-Polaris. The album's Babylonian/Vega astrology concept and the star imagery in this video situate it within a broader 2020s trend of art-pop artists using cosmic, mythological frameworks to interrogate celebrity, ambition, and selfhood. Director notes: The video is set in a dance studio and co-directed by Debby Friday and Kevan Funk, who are described across multiple sources as frequent collaborators. Cinematography by Shady Hanna; produced by Maya Gelfand; executive produced by MERCHANT; 3D animation by Jovy Bergen; color by Kassi Bellamy; costume design by Maria Katarina; steadicam by Mike DiStefano. The video's central concept, per Friday's own statement, is about 'discipline and craft' and 'the transformations that happen when you devote yourself to a process over time,' with celestial star imagery appearing on dancers towards the video's climax as a literal visualization of the album's Vega/starrr mythology. Debby Friday also served as editor and titles designer on this video.