Janette King - You Don't Love Me Prod. Jonny Tobin

What this video is

Released May 7, 2021, during the tail end of pandemic-era lockdowns, 'You Don't Love Me' draws from the sonic and visual vocabulary of late-90s/early-2000s Black American cinema and R&B — a period marked by films like Love & Basketball and Poetic Justice. As a Caribbean-Canadian artist on an independent Montreal label (Hot Tramp Records), King situates herself within a growing wave of Black Canadian musicians…

Why it matters

The track and video are significant markers of the 2020s alt-R&B revival in Canada, channeling 90s funk-soul production (Jonny Tobin) and nostalgia-coded visuals into a contemporary independent framework. Critically likened to Alicia Keys and carrying echoes of Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill, the…

The director

Janette King is a Caribbean-Canadian alternative R&B artist and producer based in Montréal, QC. She released her debut LP What We Lost (2021) on Hot Tramp Records, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and SOCAN. Her work spans R&B, house, pop, and…