.Jensen_McRae wrote 'White Boy' to process a racist microaggression and the music video is POWERFUL.
. So, it's no surprise to hear that she not only wrote"White Boy," the song she's premiering with Refinery29, but she developed and wrote the video treatment as well.On both fronts, her work is ambitious. McRae wanted to start a discourse among women of color about their marginalization and racist microaggressions.
Ahead, McRae talks to Refinery29 about the college party that inspired everything, learning to listen to her instincts, and being aJensen McRae:"My junior year of college, I was at a party and I didn't know anyone except the girl who invited me and my friend. The girl who was hosting it introduced me and my friend, who happens to be white, to this guy, who was also white.
"The whole way home, I thought about how for my whole life I've been a brown girl in predominately white environments. I was trying to figure out, in all these interactions I've had in my life, was there a racial undertone or was I imagining things? That I even had to ask that question is so problematic, complicated, and nuanced. Then I started writing the song right away.""It was a delayed reaction.
"Part of what I want to accomplish as an artist is showing that Black women experience a full range of emotions. In addition to being engaged in political topics, we're also engaged with romantic love, mental illness, adolescence, and adulthood. It's been mostly supportive [reactions], though some people have felt it was a little too frivolous. To those people I say, I have a lot more to say.
"I wanted a lot of natural light. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I didn't want it to look like a [typical] music video. I didn't want it to be fluorescent or super harsh; I wanted a good amount of darkness and for it to be more cinematic.
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