By Anthony Mclaude, Rock At Night Philadelphia
Review: Antiboy’s single “Insanity” – Release date February 9, 2022
Two years after exiting Earth, ANTIBOY, a transcendent, godlike androgyny and genderfluid moniker he’d compose as binary-shattering musical personae of the late Harry Haines. While he is no longer here, he still lives on and leaves behind an unfinished legacy of a label-less world through family, friends and kindred spirits, including his mother, actress and ‘80s sci-fi icon, Jane Badler, who knew earthly concerns weren’t finished experiencing his vision of pushing against boundaries and binaries to find much to our relief, inclusiveness, compassion, and equality.
The deepest, most extraordinary celestial star known as ANTIBOY, American Horror Story actor, has not once lost his shine. On February 9th, 2022, a voice that transcended, reminiscent of his Ziggy Stardust appearance of poeticism, is set to release posthumously delivered by Badler, a self-inflicted and self-destructive, yet puissant music video titled, ‘Insanity.’
Insanity as a conflicted-dualing diary through Leah Marojević’s evocative movement and frenzied dancing in an isolation laboratory, which offered little comfort in the empty void, soundless, and thus, showcasing the heaviness of one’s heart in performance art. A reject opus, paralyzed by others judgments in this game of labels, ANTIBOY, having suffered, sustained, and undergone an exacerbated COVID-19 pandemic whilst remaining enjoyable, the boy who feared nothing continued to commit his vision.
Now unburdened from social constructs, the glitch in paradise, Harry Haines, flaunts from the stratosphere; no boundaries, a “presence that lingers beyond mind, beyond body because that presence has seeped into being.” This being, much like his earthly presence, glamorous, gorgeous and beautiful, his message, still afresh of acceptance, was needed in the world today. Through his music, he will live on to teach us the story of love, and that all the things we’ve been taught to believe in are an illusion.
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Growing up as a child in a Christian household raised by a single mother and grandmother during the 1990s was such an awe-inspiring adventure. In his Elementary School days, he took a feeling of attraction towards rock ‘n’ roll music as he heard "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones, and "Don’t Let Me Down" by The Beatles playing from his uncle’s 1970 Chevy Malibu garage. Records by Madonna, Alanis Morissette, the Fugees, and Lil Suzy were also being played throughout the house by his mother, dressed in a black leather biker jacket and who would occasionally put the radio on blast.
In 7th grade back in 2002/2003 school year, Mclaude had written the number-one narrative story amongst the class and caught the attention of his then teacher, Mrs. DeFeo as she called him upfront and said “Anthony, your story on ‘The Volcano King’ is incredible. You should be a writer.” Ever since that day, Mclaude in his rebel without a cause era has always kept those words in mind as a way to keep pushing himself past the limits. As fifteen years past, he enrolled himself in Cumberland County College studying journalism and wrote for the university’s Award-Winning Newspaper, The Voice as he grew as a creative and tenacious reporter with a nose for news, and a passion for community journalism. In spite of the blessings outshining the hard times, he received the opportunity to be a staff writer for a local news outlet, The People’s Press of Millville, where he has written five articles, two press releases, page growth, and has received encouraging feedback from the community.
Today he is currently working for the magazines of Eclectic Shades and Rock at Night.
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