how very CRASS
So today's banner bites the design style of a band that probably 98% of my readers have no clue about. Well, it'll be worth it for that 2%.
"Do they owe us a shagging
Of course they do of course they do
Owe us a shagging
Course they fucking do!"
I've been thinking about a song called "Bata Motel" off the Penis Envy album. I was probably 15 or 16 when I first heard this track. It has great lyrics. Some of the words are pretty dark, and back then I understood it as a feminist protest against the "rituals of repression."
I've got 54321,
Come on my love, I know you're strong,
Push me hard, make me stagger,
The pain in my back just doesn't matter
But even then, I got kind of an erotic charge from that song. It might have something to do with Eve Libertine's vocals, which I remember as having an almost perky, breathless quality.
Maybe I'm upholding the privilege of the patriarchy by getting all horned up by a Crass song...
Drive me fast and crash me crazy,
I'll rise from the wreckage as fresh as a daisy
I'd be curious to find out what you think.
Comments
Okay, here's my take as a meta-radical-post-third-wave-haha feminist of a certain age:
Male dominance happens in two places. When it happens in consensual sex, it's so fucking hot I can't stand it. I want to take it every which way I can.
When it happens anywhere else, it's so fucking wrong I can't stand it. I want to resist it every which way I can.
So I read the lyrics of Bata Motel from two angles. From one of those angles, it's a protest song. From the other angle, yes, baby, it gets me all horny too.
Posted by: DirtyTalkinGirl | March 22, 2004 10:48 AM
my reaction is quite like that of D.T.G.
the best art (in my oppinion), pushes you in various directions.
pulls your political apendages apart.
metaphor?
Posted by: LauraT | March 23, 2004 09:07 PM