So-called ‘Art-Punk” rocksters, THE GO NATURALS have released their debut single, “Stormy”, a blundering misogynistic take on “London’s Indie Princesses” who hang around at gigs, wearing tight jeans (Oh the calamity!), flirting with the boys and leading them on a bit. Obviously they aren't getting any action - why else the vitriol?
“A Koko Rockette in the shades and the tight jeans… /Not a slag or nothing, I just keep them guessing/ And little do they know I’m just an innocent schoolgirl…”
Of course, I get it! Cause the whole point for boys like these is to create awesomely ground-breaking music, and keep it pure - i.e. away from those pesky, stupid, immature girls who are only there to wear nice clothes and look pretty for the geezers – clearly they won’t know the first thing about music, that would be ridiculous!
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Sorry, as light-hearted as this single is supposed to be, it just coins the attitude endemic in the music scene and industry, that alternative music is for boys, and pop music is for little girls. What's left in-between is (often boring) ernest singer/songwriters for the Women. Nice as pie. Which in reality is utter drivel.
If The Go Betweens were singing this track about Muslims/Jews/Homosexuals then they’d be castigated. As it is, they’re only harping on about women (actually, as they put it “girls”, these boys obviously wouldn’t know a real live woman if they fell over one), so it must be ok.
Crap on toast, the lot of it.
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