DEBBY FRIDAY - Lipsync

What this video is

Released June 12, 2025, as a single from Debby Friday's sophomore album The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life (Sub Pop / Royal Mountain Records, August 1, 2025), Lipsync arrives in the wake of Friday's Polaris Music Prize win for her 2023 debut Good Luck. The video reflects a wider 2020s movement of Black and diasporic artists using the Canadian indie infrastructure (Sub Pop deals, TIFF-adjacent filmmakers) to produce…

Why it matters

Lipsync is a defining document of mid-2020s electro-rap's intersection with avant-club and hyperpop aesthetics within the Canadian underground. Its rapid-fire editing (0.54s avg. shot length), industrial production palette, and Sub Pop institutional backing mark it as a significant artifact of how…

The director

Kevan Funk is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and editor, originally from British Columbia, and a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His debut feature Hello Destroyer premiered at TIFF 2016 and earned Canadian Screen Award…