O’DANIEL O’DANIEL

CINEMATIC ART-POP | MUSIC | MOVING IMAGE

Vulnerability is the architecture.

Emotion is the light.

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LATEST RELEASE

Backlot City

NEW SINGLE | OUT NOW

A love letter to the beautiful fiction of modern life. Backlot City explores the space between who we are and who we perform to be - a cinematic art-pop single about identity, illusion, and the search for something real.

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ABOUT THE WORK

Songs, images, and stories from the same universe.

O’DANIEL O’DANIEL is the musical and visual world of Joshua Denning - a space for emotional truth, cinematic storytelling, and human contradiction. The project blends songwriting, film, and visual art to explore identity, longing, and what it means to feel things deeply in a noisy world.

It’s intimate. It’s visual. It’s real. And it’s only the beginning.

MUSIC FILMS

THE PROJECT

AN ARTIST WORLD, BUILT FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

Music. Moving image. Visual Identity. Campaigns. O’DANIEL O’DANIEL is a fully realized creative world - where every element serves the same truth: higher feeling, deeper meaning, stronger connection.

Occasionally, the sunglasses come off.
I was told to take a seat.
outtakes from a life i haven’t lived yet, iv. light remembers me differently.
outtakes from a life i haven’t lived yet, iii. heat signature.
outtakes from a life i haven’t lived yet, i. the future wore my face.
BACKLOT CITY — the music film now playing on YouTube. a city built from façades. a body learning what survives beneath them. watch the full film at the link in bio. O’DANIEL O’DANIEL #BacklotCity #ODanielODaniel #QueerPo
BACKLOT CITY is out now. Every bed’s a set. Every moan’s a line. Every love a borrowed fling. Listen now at the link in bio. Music film tomorrow. #BacklotCity #ODanielODaniel #CinematicPop #NewMusicFriday
Every window has an angle. Every gesture has a mark. Every intimate moment risks becoming another performance. I built “Backlot City” around a world of façades: beautiful from the street, hollow once you step inside. The film turn

MUSIC | MOVING IMAGE | VISUAL IDENTITY | CAMPAIGNS

A GROWING CATALOGUE OF SONGS AND STORIES

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MIDNIGHT

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ANTI-GRAVITY

A man with sunglasses, a beard, and short hair walking through an underground tunnel with fluorescent lighting.

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