Amanda Lepore and Cazwell

You've seen her starring in videos for everyone one else–Tiga, The Dandy Warhols, Girl In A Coma and David LaChapelle–now Amanda Lepore has her very own solo video, Cotton Candy. I love her old Hollywood looks throughout the video and her cartoonish looks. She is just fabulous!


Directed by Bec Stupak and guest starring Cazwell, this is the first single from Amanda Lepore's full-length album "I...Amanda Lepore". "Cotton Candy" was written by Cazwell and produced by Goodandevil. This was written of her by Michael Musto.

AMANDA LEPORE by MICHAEL MUSTO

The world’s most famous transsexual and an effervescent fixture on the New York scene, Amanda Lepore has been at the cutting edge of culture since the club kid era, breaking and re-making the rules for music, marketing, and gender. Her new album, I…Amanda Lepore, is the culmination of her long reign as the queen of Gotham’s button pushing (and button popping) carnival, cementing her status as the most prevalent risk taking creative artist and good-time gal after dark.

A sort of woozy inflatable doll, Amanda comes off like a Jeff Koons statue of Marilyn Monroe, a walking work in progress whose nonstop array of surgeries have made her a unique comment on womanhood, and every inch a dame. In New York, she gets paid to enter a room, lips first. It’s not a party until her benevolent presence is spotted on a banquette, like a space alien sex goddess crossed with a curvy Disney goldfish, doling out insights, giggles, and occasionally free drink tickets. A dominatrix and a regular member of Michael Alig’s clubland circus at Limelight’s weekly Disco 2000 in the early ‘90s, Amanda went on to work Patricia Field’s makeup counter while finding her constantly changing face the most marketable object in town. It’s been used to promote Heatherette, M.A.C., and Swatch, to name just three trendy brands But who is Amanda Lepore? is an often overheard remark, second only to “But WHAT is Amanda Lepore?” Well, back in the ‘90s, a newspaper column blithely called Amanda a drag queen, so she mailed them a Polaroid of herself giving them the finger with no clothes on, by the way. “I’m a transsexual, I have a vagina!” She ended up dating a surgeon who gave her a free nose job, a later boyfriend paying for her sexual reassignment. Who needs nationalized health care when you can just marry well?)