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| From | jchasin@nyc.rr.com |
| Subject | Re: Somebody school me |
| Date | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:37:40 -0500 |
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Two things:
1. Teagan and Sarah are LESBIANS? That explains why I saw them open for the Indigo Girls. I couldn't figure it out...
2. Fascination with lesbians is bizzare?
----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net>
> 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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