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About a month ago I encountered Liz Phair's "Flower". I always put off obtaining this record during high school, I knew it was something I ought to get into but never made it. It caught up with me.
Having been studying Apollonia 6's raunchy repertoire for the past month or two, this is really striking a chord or two, but for very different reasons. A6 are at the mercy of Prince and deliver complex, fascinating, but pretty dumb sentiments over sophisticated, simple music. This is a totally different kind of creative agency and the sexual agency is just on a whole other level. What I keep coming back to is that the words in this song are so beautiful, specifically it's making use of beauties of colloquial American English like few other songs do.
"...everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you and your minions, too...
You're probably shy and introspective
That's not part of my objective
I just want your fresh, young jimmy
Jamming, slamming, ramming in me"
The rhymes are not stretches, they're very comfortable together, and delivered at the steady pulse at which they're delivered, more or less eight syllables a line, it's exciting/surprising as the details unfold. But there they are. What more could you ask for?
Other things you get:
You get the nice interplay with the bridge melody of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", maybe an accident, maybe intentional; either way juxtaposing sweet Dorothy with this singer.
You get the guy having minions! Acting 14! With a blue dick! Complex! Scathing!
You get the singer having it both ways: mocking the men (the Rolling Stones?) who want this to be true about her and asserting that this could be a truthful account at the same time. It's a statement that is completely true in its context as rock rebuttal and Liz Phair's singing it allows her to position herself anywhere along a spectrum of "my sexuality could be anywhere". To be totally responsible, I would go on at length about this, but I've got to finish an externally assigned 20 pager in the next few days and start another, so I'd best end it there. But huh, what a good song!
Click to viewHaving been studying Apollonia 6's raunchy repertoire for the past month or two, this is really striking a chord or two, but for very different reasons. A6 are at the mercy of Prince and deliver complex, fascinating, but pretty dumb sentiments over sophisticated, simple music. This is a totally different kind of creative agency and the sexual agency is just on a whole other level. What I keep coming back to is that the words in this song are so beautiful, specifically it's making use of beauties of colloquial American English like few other songs do.
"...everything I'll do to you
I'll fuck you and your minions, too...
You're probably shy and introspective
That's not part of my objective
I just want your fresh, young jimmy
Jamming, slamming, ramming in me"
The rhymes are not stretches, they're very comfortable together, and delivered at the steady pulse at which they're delivered, more or less eight syllables a line, it's exciting/surprising as the details unfold. But there they are. What more could you ask for?
Other things you get:
You get the nice interplay with the bridge melody of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", maybe an accident, maybe intentional; either way juxtaposing sweet Dorothy with this singer.
You get the guy having minions! Acting 14! With a blue dick! Complex! Scathing!
You get the singer having it both ways: mocking the men (the Rolling Stones?) who want this to be true about her and asserting that this could be a truthful account at the same time. It's a statement that is completely true in its context as rock rebuttal and Liz Phair's singing it allows her to position herself anywhere along a spectrum of "my sexuality could be anywhere". To be totally responsible, I would go on at length about this, but I've got to finish an externally assigned 20 pager in the next few days and start another, so I'd best end it there. But huh, what a good song!