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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Somebody school me |
| Date | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:27:13 -0500 |
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From: "andrea kremer" <kremer@shore.net>
> Here's the thing:
>
> The new Tegan and Sarah record ("So Jealous," for those who care to
> check
> it out) is good. It's really, really good. "Walking With A Ghost" is
> one
> of the most infectiously enjoyable songs I've heard all year. If I
> actually summon up the energy to post my Top Whatever of 2004 list,
> "So
> Jealous" will certainly be on it.
>
> And guess what? I'm not a straight-white-boy, nor a lesbian, nor a
> rock
> critic.
>
> Sometimes, despite whatever droll stereotypes you think you see in a
> particular phenomenon (or in yourself?), the music is just GOOD. No
> matter
> who it's made by.
>
> Good lord.
Good lord indeed. Andrea, I'm not saying that the record isn't good,
or that this is the *only* reason certain people like it. What I've
heard of SO JEALOUS I quite like, although I wasn't crazy about the
one before it and I've never heard the first one that's supposedly a
lot more folky and acoustic. What I said -- which I stand by -- is
that this album has gotten A LOT more mainstream critical attention
than many aesthetically similar and equally good albums (for example,
Destroyer's friggin' awesome YOUR BLUES, another Canadian album with
very similar '80s new wave aspirations, has been ignored pretty much
everywhere), and given that the sisters' sexual orientation is
invariably mentioned in the very first sentence of every one of these
reviews that I've seen, I have to assume that at least part of what's
going on here is the bizarre fascination with lesbians that *some* men
exhibit.
In case that's not clear enough, let me reiterate that it was that
"ooh, look, lesbians!" mentality that I was mocking, not Tegan and
Sara themselves.
S
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