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