Michael Love Michael - Mother’s Day

What this video is

Released in 2020 alongside Michael Love Michael's self-released debut album XO, 'Mother's Day' emerged during a watershed moment for Black trans and queer visibility in independent music. The video, shot on-location in Hollywood, casts Michael in a 'hooker murderess' alter ego — a provocative subversion of maternal archetypes that intersects true crime aesthetics with camp theatricality. The song itself, as Michael…

Why it matters

As a track on XO — an album MTV described as rejecting 'easy categorization' — 'Mother's Day' exemplifies the album's genre-fluid approach, blending what Michael described as a 'St. Vincent, Brian Eno vibe' with 'stompy, crunchy, stadium rock.' The video extends this into a cinematic language,…

The director

Ross Days (@rossthedays_) is described in a published interview with Michael Love Michael as a rising filmmaker and actor, and a close friend of the artist who wrote the video treatment for 'Mother's Day' due to their deep connection with the song. Days is…