When Julia Fox debuted her single “Down the Drain” on Charli XCX's Boiler Room DJ set last February, there were basically two reactions: 1) Wait, Julia Fox now? Are you making music? 2) Of course Julia Fox is making music now.
Julia Fox isn't just making music right now (and not only is it kind of killer), she's also released the video for “Down the Drain,” which debuts exclusively in Rolling Stone . Directed by her co-writer and producer Ben Draghi, the video explores every aspect of Foxx's persona, from actress to designer to memoirist to muse to her mother (both literal and figurative). It is intended to be introduced.
Contains latex. There's leather. There's a whip. There are chains. A scary submarine wearing boxer briefs is tied to a wall, stuffing apples into its mouth like a Christmas pig. There's a kidnapping subplot featuring Fox's longtime best friend and collaborator Richie Shazam, and a kidnapping subplot featuring Fox and two attractive dom-cum-superheroes (Fox's friend and fellow Downtowner Sarah Apple). Maliki (played by Alexandra Harris). The film begins with Fox, wearing a baseball cap and rhinestone sunglasses, dropping off his angelic 3-year-old son, Valentino, at school.
BDSM, boxing with tattooed behemoths in thongs, running around the tri-state area wearing a Power Rangers mask, it's all just another day in the life for the multihyphenate and Anka Jamz muse. Not too much. “For me, videos are like a mirror of my life,” Foxx told Rolling Stone. “I drop my son off in the morning, live a thousand lives until it's time to pick him up again, and then I'm 'mommy' again.” I think you can relate.”
Fox said that in many ways, the single and accompanying video can be seen as a companion to her memoir, also titled Down the Drain. The book, which was released last October, describes her on-again, off-again childhood spent on Manhattan's Upper East Side, her history of substance abuse, her struggles with mental illness, and her experiences with dominant figures, including most famously Kanye West. Records of relationships with men. Simply put, it's a date of January 2022 (who is referred to as an “artist” in the book).
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The “Down the Drain” video was shot in the dungeon of Mistress, where she worked early in her career, a period she chronicles in detail in her memoir. “I spent a lot of time there, I grew up there, and it laid the foundation for who I am today, so it's only right that I pay homage to that,” she says. “I accept my past. I'm not ashamed because that's why I'm here. [And] A big theme of my book is that you can be who you want to be, and you can always change your mind and become a completely different person. ”
With a droning, trance-like spoken word refrain of “I'm a bitch, I'm a girl, I'm a mother, I'm a whore,” Foxx's first foray into pop music was partly in Crystal Castle. Yes, and some are Countess Luann from RHONY — not that there's anything wrong with that. “I don't want to be a pop star. I'm a pop (culture) star,” Fox says. “To tell you the truth, music is my first love and I have always wanted to do music, but my mother discouraged me when I was young, so now I am trying to heal from my childhood wounds and pursue my lifelong dream.'' We are trying to make this happen. [I’m] I'm not trying to get rich or win a Grammy through music. I have realistic expectations. ”
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Even if pop stardom doesn't work out, Foxx is very busy. She is currently working on a TV series adaptation of Down the Drain with writer/director Joey Soloway, and is currently in New Mexico working on a soccer film directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele. He is currently filming an untitled psychological thriller. She is also co-writing a movie about two college girls who accidentally kill their sugar daddies, which is expected to begin filming in the fall. She is working on an unspecified project with TikTok star turned pop girl Addison Rae, who also appeared at a Boiler Room event.
“I love her. She's such a pure, real soul. She inspires me. She's my muse right now,” Foxx says of Ray. “I'm working on something with her, but I can't say yet. But I would say this is going to be a cultural moment for her story book.”