Shane Drake


Shane C. Drake is an American music video director and producer originally from Redding, California. He has directed videos for many artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Avril Lavigne, Trivium, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Flo Rida, Timbaland, Blindside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Almost, Hawthorne Heights, Subseven, and AJR. He is best known for Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies, Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift: Highway Don't Care and Paramore: Misery Business.

Early career

Early in his career, Drake spent time working as an editor and cinematographer with such bands as Poison the Well, Deftones, Thursday and many more. He now spends most of his time directing. As of 2006, Drake has directed more than 50 music videos and co-produced three films. He owns Say So Pictures, a California-based production company.

Awards

In 2006 Drake was awarded the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for Panic! at the Disco's "I Write Sins Not Tragedies".
In 2007 Drake was nominated for the MTV Monster Single of the Year for his video for Timbaland's "The Way I Are". In 2008, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction and MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video with Panic! at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" and MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video with Paramore's "Crushcrushcrush" and also Fall Out Boy's cover of "Beat It". In 2009 Drake was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for his video for Paramore's "Decode" from the Twilight film soundtrack album. In 2012, he was nominated for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message for Kelly Clarkson's "Dark Side".

Music videography

YearArtistVideo
2001Subseven"Emotion"
2002mewithoutYou"Bullet To Binary"
2004Fall Out Boy"Saturday"
2004Hawthorne Heights"Ohio Is For Lovers"
2004mewithoutYou"January 1979"
2004Silverstein"Smashed Into Pieces"
2004The Beautiful Mistake"This Is Who You Are"
2005Paramore"Pressure"
2005My American Heart"The Process"
2005Blindside"Fell In Love With The Game"
2005Trivium"A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation"
2005Still Remains"The Worst Is Yet To Come"
2005The Audition"You've Made Us Conscious"
2005June"Patrick"
2005Between The Buried And Me"Alaska"
2005Armor for Sleep"Car Underwater"
2006Showbread"Oh! Emetophobia!"
2006Mewithoutyou"Nice And Blue "
2006Gia Farrell"Hit Me Up"
2006Trick Daddy feat. Chamillionaire"Bet That"
2006Head Automatica"Lying Through Your Teeth"
2006Less Than Jake"The Rest Of My Life"
2006Gym Class Heroes"The Queen And I"
2006Paramore"Emergency"
2006An Angle"Green Water"
2006Moneen"If Tragedy's Appealing, Then Disaster's An Addiction"
2006Needtobreathe"You Are Here"
2006Panic! at the Disco"But It's Better If You Do"
2006Panic! at the Disco"I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
2006Jonezetta"Get Ready "
2007The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus"False Pretense"
2007The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus"Your Guardian Angel"
2007Paramore"Misery Business"
2007Paramore"crushcrushcrush"
2007The Almost"Southern Weather"
2007The Rocket Summer"So Much Love"
2007Say Anything"Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too"
2007The Almost"Say This Sooner"
2007The Higher"Insurance?"
2007The Cheetah Girls"So This Is Love"
2007New Years Day"I Was Right"
2007Timbaland feat. D.O.E & Keri Hilson"The Way I Are"
2007Angels & Airwaves"Everything's Magic"
2007Plain White T's"Our Time Now"
2007Paul Van Dyk"Let Go"
2008Panic! at the Disco"Nine in the Afternoon"
2008Forever the Sickest Kids"Whoa Oh! "
2008Fall Out Boy feat. John Mayer"Beat It"
2008Flo Rida feat. will.i.am"In The Ayer"
2008Shwayze"Corona & Lime"
2008Plain White T's starring Tiffany Dupont"Natural Disaster"
2008Paramore"Decode"
2009Madina Lake"Never Take Us Alive"
2009Flo Rida feat. Wynter Gordon"Sugar"
2009Darius Rucker"History in the Making"
2009The Almost"Lonely Wheel"
2009The Almost"Hands"
2009Honor Society"Over You"
2010Laura Bell Bundy"Giddy On Up"
2010Papa Roach"Kick in the Teeth"
2010Panic! At The Disco"The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
2010Panic! At The Disco"The Overture"
2011Avril Lavigne"Smile"
2011Panic! At the Disco"Ready to Go "
2011Brantley Gilbert"Country Must Be Country Wide"
2011Paramore"Monster"
2011Dappy"No Regrets"
2011Scotty McCreery"I Love You This Big"
2011Justin Moore"Bait a Hook"
2011Drive A"Let's Have a Wreck "
2011Kelly Clarkson"Stronger "
2012Daughtry"Outta My Head"
2012Kelly Clarkson"Dark Side"
2012Three Days Grace"Chalk Outline"
2012Little Big Town"Tornado"
2012Brantley Gilbert"More Than Miles"
2012L.P."Into the Wild"
2013Lawson"Learn to Love Again"
2013Tegan and Sara"I Was a Fool"
2013Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban"Highway Don't Care"
2013The Wanted"Walks Like Rihanna"
2013Avril Lavigne"Here's To Never Growing Up"
2013Tim McGraw"Southern Girl"
2013Danielle Bradbery"The Heart of Dixie"
2013Daughtry"Waiting for Superman"
2013Hunter Hayes feat. Jason Mraz"Everybody's Got Somebody but Me"
2013Brantley Gilbert"Bottoms Up"
2013The Cadillac Three"The South"
2014Brett Eldredge"Beat of the Music"
2014Haley & Michaels"Just Another Love Song"
2014Danielle Bradbery"Young in America"
2014A Day To Remember"End of Me"
2014Lady Antebellum"Bartender"
2014Tim McGraw feat. Faith Hill"Meanwhile Back at Mama's"
2014Dustin Lynch"Where It's At "
2014Justin Moore feat. Vince Neil"Home Sweet Home"
2014Brantley Gilbert feat. Justin Moore & Thomas Rhett"Small Town Throwdown"
2014Brett Eldredge"Mean to Me"
2015Brantley Gilbert"One Hell of an Amen"
2015Keith Urban""
2015Brantley Gilbert"Stone Cold Sober"
2015G.E.M."Goodbye"
2016Justin Moore"You Look Like I Need a Drink"
2016Brett Young"Sleep Without You"
2016Colette Carr"Play House"
2016Hillary Scott & the Scott Family"Thy Will"
2016Luke Bryan"Move"
2016Carrie Underwood"Dirty Laundry"
2017AJR"Weak"
2018Ella Mai"Trip"