Honey Dijon & Jacob Lusk, Satisfied | Beaming with Pride

In the 39^th edition of Beaming with Pride (2026), we highlight “Satisfied” performed by Honey Dijon and Jacob Lusk.

Are you ready to beam with P-R-I-D-E? Beaming with Pride highlights songs by LGBTQ musicians and allies, offering background, analysis, and discussion of the decadent bops served up. All genres are welcome, and both classics and new songs are recognized. So, without further ado, in the 39^th  edition of Beaming with Pride (2026), we highlight “Satisfied” performed by Honey Dijon and Jacob Lusk.

DJ, producer, and electronic musician Honey Dijon (Honey Redmond) and Jacob Lusk (he/him) cooked up something incredibly satisfying on “Satisfied”. “Satisfied” appears as the 11^th track on Dijon’s 2026 album, The Nightlife.  She wrote and produced the track. It commences with a sampled, captivating spoken word introduction with applause that’s accompanied by a jazzy bass line (think jazz rap). The sample, You So Black from the 2019 Bounce Trumpet Awards, performed by Theresa Tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D., references being unapologetically black and proud

“I’m black like my granddaddy and my great-great-great-great-grandmother

Black is that lift every voice and sing

Black is that letting your freedom ring and resound

Black is adjective, adverb, color, and noun.”

Just as this speech did in 2019, it gets the listeners hyped up on “Satisfied,” establishing a satisfying listening experience.

With the tone set, an electrifying percussive groove.  Do you know what else kicks in? The high-flying vocals by the incredibly gifted Jacob Lusk. Did you hear the former American Idol contestant pay tribute to Elton John? Lusk’s falsetto is utterly sublime.  He marvelously performs the smooth, tuneful, and rhythmic melodies. The chorus, excerpted earlier, is incredibly memorable. Beyond the chorus, I adore the unapologetic post-chorus, which features more synths and some timely f-bombs. “I ain’t the one to play with, don’t you fuck with me now,” he sings, and continues, “Don’t you play with me, don’t you fuck with me now.” There is also an entertaining spoken-word/rapped second verse, backed by the jazz-rap backdrop (“I’m in need of satisfaction, talking about word and action / Leave it all on the floor, drippin’ head to toe with hella passion”).  As “Satisfied” progresses, it only grows more satisfying.  There are additional instruments, riffs, ideas, etc. Honey Dijon, assisted by Lusk, throws the whole kitchen sink into “Satisfied”, recording a bop that NEVER fails to satisfy the ears.

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Honey Dijon » The Nightlife » SOS » 2026

Honey Dijon & Jacob Lusk, Satisfied: Beaming with Pride No. 39 (2026) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; SOS; Cristyan Bohn, Ketut Subiyanto, Luis Morales Torres, SHVETS production, Uriel Mont from Pexels; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Gordon Johnson, Wolfgang Eckert from Pixabay]

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