Saturday, September 21, 2013

Earworm of the Day:CocoRosie - Lemonade




I try to do a decent job of vetting artists and videos before I post them here. I like CocoRosie, especially they way they play with gender roles in a music industry that only allows for masculinity in women as long as they "pretty it up" a la Madonna in a tuxedo. The use of Native American imagery could be seen as problematic, but given that CocoRosie are Native American, and it's no one's place to tell them how to use those symbols. Plus this video is just so visually arresting that there's no justifiable way to compare it to, say, Lana Del Rey in cut-offs and a war bonnet.

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