Heaven Is...

Aug 20, 2006 23:05

...the state of mind reached when you get back in from seeing The Notorious Bettie Page and put on the first album by Kenickie, In The Club. And as you listen and pick apart all the strange, half-buried references to sleazy perversity and violence buried in these shiny, noisy pop songs and jig around the room to 'Come Out 2 Nite', you realize that when you were a teenager, being sad was kind of fun.

"It's dark, and it's savage, but it's only in neon, so come out and grab it." How someone who could write so well when she was only 16 could end up presenting crap pop shows rather than refining her violent and beautiful muse will one day be one of the world's great unsolved mysteries.

the notorious bettie page, kenickie, nostalgia, punk rock, lauren laverne

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