.joyoladokun celebrates both the joy and fear of coming out in Sunday video
The lyrics point to a feeling of guilt that comes with coming out as a young person, specifically as a young religious person. “Sunday, bury me/ under the weight of who you need me to be,” Oladokun sings.
But with her new video for the track, Oladokun is celebrating nothing but pure queer joy. In the video, released on Wednesday, Oladokun shows multiple different LGBTQ couples going about their happy day-to-day lives. Along with these uplifting clips, the video both opens and closes with personal testimonials from the queer people in the video about what coming out meant for them.
It helps that the team behind the camera, including director Sami Barron, was almost entirely made up of queer people, something that Oladokun says wasn’t even intentional. “We just kind of looked up in the midst of the shoot realized it, and said 'cool.' Then we went back into the work,” she says. But one scene of the shoot proved to be a cathartic moment for Oladokun -- throughout the clip, two dancers on a beach put on a beautifully intricate performance to the song. “It felt, to me, like such a final blow to the years I've spent closeted and afraid that I would never be happy or loved properly,” she says. “That's the biggest lie we LGBTQIA people get told, that our love is less than or deficient. It's not.
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