January 5, 2022• byMichael Strangeways

Logan Lynn in animation form for his new single/video of “Baby Britain” from his album New Money out on January 21st via Kill Rock Stars

Portland’s own gay balladeer Logan Lynn has a great new cover out of Elliott Smith’s song “Baby Britain”. It’s the latest single from Logan’s new album, New Money which drops later this month. AND, to make things even more fun, Logan teamed up with Seattle area artists to make the video for the song.
Our own Clyde Petersen made the video using Clyde’s familiar style of animation known to most of us via his great films including Torrey Pines along with Seattle area animator/puppetmaster Chris Looney. The video features Logan in animated paper puppet form along with a familiar setting….Seattle gay bar CHANGES, located at 2103 N 45th Street in the Wallingford neighborhood serves as the setting for the video and its familar street front location is prominently on view.
Check it out!

More info on the song and video down below:

Today, Portland’s iconic songwriter, producer, filmmaker, television personality, award-winning activist, and now Out100 honoreeLogan Lynn shared his newest single + animated video off his upcoming album New Money, out January 21 via Kill Rock Stars; a bouncy, electro-popified rendition of Elliott Smith’s “Baby Britain.” Following two upbeat bangers, “Eat&Drink&Smoke&Shop&Fuck” and “Rich And Beautiful,” as well as the empowering anthem “Here’s To Us,” today’s track appropriately pays homage to the classic energy of Smith’s original, while also giving it a fresh and edgy spin.

Logan explains, “This song has always meant a lot to me, as does the man who wrote it. Elliott’s pop sensibility is unmatched, as far as I’m concerned – but that’s often not what people hear first when they listen to his songs. Gino and I tried to bring that out in this cover, and my hope is always just that more people will discover Elliott Smith records and celebrate his life, his work, and everything he has inspired. This cover is a love letter.” Partnering with filmmaker Clyde Petersen and animator/puppetmaster Chris Looney for the creation of the accompanying video, it takes audiences on an animated journey into gay bar iconography and a celebration of all those places where LGBTQ+ people used to find each other, back before there were so many ways to do so online today.

“Baby Britain”: Watch / Listen
Pre-order: New Money

(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today)

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.