Recent Song
Hole – “Boys on the Radio”
Finding a great track on an album you’ve owned for over a decade – moreover, an album you’ve all but discounted (in fact I sold my CD of “Celebrity Skin” a couple years ago but uploaded it to iTunes beforehand – pretty much the only reason I listened to it, otherwise the CD would be languishing in my collection). It’s funny because this album seemed so cynical at the time with its anti-Hollywood lyrical content while Courtney Love was all dolled up in plastic body parts and revealing clothes. Set next to what women pop artists produce currently, it feels practically revolutionary – actual feminism, I almost forgot what it looked like. Besides all that it’s a perfect alt-rock studio song, on an album that happens to be filled with them – truly underrated.
3 Comments
Jun 12, 2011 @ 05:52:49
yes ‘actual feminism’ doesn’t exist anymore. This is Feminism 2.0
Jun 14, 2011 @ 18:04:58
Oh riot grrl feminism, I remember you so fondly. Nowadays girls are growing up in a world where it’s perfectly normal to hear Rihanna singing about whips and chains and Katy Perry getting probed by an alien on pop radio and idolize Kim Kardashian whose only real claim to fame is a sex tape but it’s NOT unacceptable to talk about condoms and birth control in high school health class. What?! Also, talking about Feminism 2.0, I read an interesting book about the history of Nancy Drew that talked about how this has been a historical issue for women – one generation would make great strides for their gender and the next would flush it all down the drain – apparently the suffragettes were NOT so keen on the 1920 flapper girls that came after them. 🙂 Sorry I went off on a completely unrelated tangent there, but yes, thanks for bringing up this song!
Jun 18, 2011 @ 08:49:21
I love the 1920s flapper girls! I think they were riot grrl in their own way, as is Rihanna.
But it is all individuated now I think. Each girl for him or herself!