Bitching...

Wednesday night we drove all the way out to some dodgy pub in the eastern 'burbs to witness one of my favourite local bands Little Birdy - a tad disappointing considering they only played for an hour. But, they played well and belted out their well-known singles (This is a love song, Baby blue etc)  that made it into the JJJ Hot 100 last year, as well as some of their newer tracks. Rumour has it they are about to release an album in August, which I can't wait for! The singer, Katy Steele, has this sexy Chrissie Amphlett thing going on with that hair. And any girl that wears a mini-skirt with red patent high heels while playing guitar gets a gold star in my books!

Have spent today reading and taking notes from The Good, The Bad and The Gorgeous: Popular Culture's Romance With Lesbianism. It has a particularly interesting chapter on Madonna - interesting to me because I've never liked her and think she has been over-analysed as a 'dyke icon'. I think she's given way too much credit and particularly disagreed with the statement "Nothing can be said about the image of women in the last decade without reference to her" (the book was written in 1994).  I can think of many, many women the world 0ver whose lives owe nothing to Madonna whatsoever!

I also believe she is given way too much credit for the whole 'liberation of female sexuality' thing.  The writer of this chapter, obviously a blinded Madonna fan with tunnel vision, writes: "Adopting a masculine style here, a feminine pose there, substituting sexual object choices as the fancy takes her, she is simultaneously butch and femme, gay and straight. The term 'gender fuck' could have been coined especially for her". Well excuse me, but I disagree. There is never any doubt, in any of Madsy's vid-clips, promo pics or lyrics etc as to both her sexuality and her gender. She is clearly a woman who is aware of the commercial gain to be had from playing at being a lesbian, or a slut, or an androgyne figure. 

Enough ranting.