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When we last heard from Electric Street Queens, the band was reeling in the V-Day thrill of “Reba’s Goin’ Out”. But the seasons have changed — and so have the band’s leisure activities.
ESQ have always been able to squash an ample amount of sass into their tunes, but this time around, the Boston punk group gets an extra dose of it as they sweat through summer with iconic drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova in their new video “Hot Cream.”
The persona of Massachusetts’ own Brian Joseph McCook, Katya is one of guitarist Bobby Abraham’s “bestest friends,” and actually works on all the content for Katya’s Youtube channel.
“I produce/direct all the videos for his youtube channel and we’ve worked on many creative projects together, and I actually made all his submission videos to RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Abraham (real name: Avi Paul Weinstein) tells Vanyaland. “We all first met at MassArt when Brian, Coco [lead singer], and I were in the SIM (Studio For Interrelated Media) together.”
Despite being on opposite coasts, ESQ and Katya tag-teamed on the video by having Katya do his own poolside thang in Los Angeles, and sewing his dance shots into the video remotely.
“Electric Street Queens worked with Katya on our previous music video for Thigh High, which Vanyaland was generous enough to do a write up on,” Weinstein adds. “This time I asked Brian/Katya to showcase his ‘interpretive dance skills’ while in boy drag (Katya was still kinda on hiatus and I thought boy drag would work better for the song anyway). He shot his scene in LA and sent me the footage, so this was a fun way to still work together even though we are on opposite coasts now.”
As always with ESQ, the results are equal parts seductive, scandalous, and sweaty. Get drenched in the sweltering goodness below.