Honey Dijon is finally (finally!) getting her flowers
heard of Honey Dijon. The groundbreaking electronic music producer was recruited to make a special contribution to Madonna’s Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones album—remixing “I Don’t Search I Find” from 2019’s Madame X—and she also had a hand in mixing two of the most popular tracks from Beyoncé’s Renaissance album, “Alien Superstar” and “Cozy.” And that’s only in the last few years!Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.Dijon has released two albums, 2017’s The Best of Both Worlds and 2022’s Black Girl Magic, as well as remixed songs for Christine and the Queens, Cakes da Killa, Lady Gaga, Jessie Ware, and even David Bowie.Yet even as Dijon’s notoriety and star as a nightlife fixture across queer and alternative spaces has continued to rise, she has managed to keep it all about music above all else, using her producing talents as a tool for liberation.“I feel like a lot of sexuality and sensuality is missing from dance culture,” Dijon told an audience during a lecture hosted by the Boiler Room in Santiago, Chile.
About how the focus of electronic music has changed, “When I was growing up, you actually couldn’t see the DJ. The music was the star,” she explained. “So people actually danced with each other instead of side by side.”She added, “And to me you can’t have sexual energy if you’re shoulder-to-shoulder.
You need to be body-to-body.”A post shared by Honey Dijon (@honeydijon)Dijon likes to say she was born in Chicago but raised in New York City—after all, NYC is where she decided that she wanted to become a DJ, beginning in 1998.“I was just really, really lucky to be born at a time and place at the beginning of this subculture that was created by queer people of color and women,” she explained in the same lecture.“And I try to continue to carry that information with me today because I feel like dance music has been so commodified and colonized, and.
