Posts Tagged: the woman question


25
Sep 09

Here come the lesbians, the leaping lesbians

The Internet Archive amazes me with its continual ability to provide the things I have long been seeking. The most recent case in point:

Lesbian Concentrate

Lesbian Concentrate, a 1977 anthology of songs by and about lesbians, published by the feminist label Olivia Records.  It was released partly as a reaction to Anita Bryant’s crazy crazytalk, and partly because the world can always use another lesbian anthology. Excuse me, lesbianthology. It’s one word now.

The reason I’d been looking so long and hard for it was to find the track by Sue Fink, titled “Leaping Lesbians”:


Sue Fink – “Leaping Lesbians”

It’s sort of a lesbian funhouse horror song. My greatest wish in the world at this moment is that I could say there were other songs in this genre. To compensate, please memorize this one and sing it every chance you get: “We’re gonna please you, tease you, hypnotize and tightly squeeze you, we’re gonna get if you we can (Here come the lesbians)! Don’t go and try to fight it, run away or try to hide it, we want your lovin’, that’s our plan!”


2
Sep 09

Big Girls vs. Fatties vs. Ambiguously Gay Male Pop Stars

One of my favorite figures of speech is describing something as being like “the love child of ___ and ___.” As in, “Have you seen Pan’s Labyrinth? It’s like the love child of The Pianist and the actual Labyrinth!” Or “Hey! Look at that guy over there! He looks like the love child of David Bowie and Bob Barker!” (How terrifying would that be? Actually, how terrifying was Pan’s Labyrinth?)

What would happen if two songs had a baby?

Freddie Mercury & Morrissey

Freddie Mercury & Morrissey

If songs look anything like their singers, it would look like this: Continue reading →