{"id":66708,"date":"2018-04-02T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/matt-wilkas-is-a-gay-new-yorker-searching-for-answers-to-an-empty-life-in-natti-vogels-brown-rice-watch\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T18:25:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:25:32","slug":"matt-wilkas-is-a-gay-new-yorker-searching-for-answers-to-an-empty-life-in-natti-vogels-brown-rice-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/matt-wilkas-is-a-gay-new-yorker-searching-for-answers-to-an-empty-life-in-natti-vogels-brown-rice-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Wilkas is a Gay New Yorker Searching for Answers to an Empty Life in Natti Vogel\u2019s \u2018Brown Rice\u2019 \u2013 WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Wilkas is a Gay New Yorker Searching for Answers to an Empty Life in Natti Vogel\u2019s \u2018Brown Rice\u2019 \u2013 WATCH<\/b>
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Body image, mental health, drug use, toxic masculinity, narcissistic social media thirst, beauty standards, casual sex<\/a> hook-ups, and alienation are explored in the video<\/a> for \u201cBrown Rice\u201d, the new single from Natti Vogel which stars Matt Wilkas as a gay<\/a> New Yorker searching for personal answers to the emptiness in his life.<\/p>\n

Watch the wk-unfriendly video<\/a> above.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll recognize Wilkas from his new web series Matt & Da<\/a>n, and also because he made international headlines by kissing boyfriend Gus Kenworthy at the Winter Olympics<\/a> in Pyeongchang.<\/p>\n

Vogel spoke about the video<\/a> with Billboard<\/em><\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI just began to feel how much untapped emotional and psychic intensity there is behind body transformation.\u00a0I\u2019m coming from a place of having been a fat kid and our executive producer is coming from a place of having been a top male<\/a> model. And yet a bunch of very different bodies seem to relate to this song, from my healthy fat friends to my thin friends who openly struggle with eating disorders. It makes me feel like I did something right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title of the song came from a story about Ryan Reynolds\u2019 training regimen on an entertainment site. Apparently Reynolds told the site he ate brown rice but only before 8 pm at night.<\/p>\n

The clip, directed by Eamon Foley, also features Vogel at the piano, adult film actor Tegan Zayne, and dancers Amos Oliver III, Marquis Floyd, and\u00a0Sebastian Abarbanell.<\/p>\n

Vogel\u2019s EP Serving Body is out now on Spotify<\/a>, iTunes, Apple Music, and other services.<\/p>\n

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Matt Wilkas is a Gay New Yorker Searching for Answers to an Empty Life in Natti Vogel’s ‘Brown Rice’ – WATCH<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n