Why The F--- Aren't We Famous? By the Inimitable Kinsey Sicks
Posted: July 28, 2013
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You may remember the Kinsey Sicks from my recent enthusing over their unique brand of 'dragapella' extravaganza. Now this irreverent barbershop (nail salon?) quartet are celebrating their 20th birthday with a rather brilliant song and video.
Why The F--- Aren't We Famous? is not only a very good question considering the talent, wit and style of the Kinsey Sicks, it is also a timely comment on contemporary celebrity pop culture. Aping A and R men and Pop Idol judges, the Sicks list reasons why they're not Top of the Pops along with the Biebers and Gagas of the world.
'if you wanna be commercial minimise the controversial, people want their chicks with sticks to cut off the politics'.
I think there's a very serious point here, in amongst the make up, stilettos and oh so lovely harmonies. In a world where popular culture has pretty well entirely gone gay - see Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Eurotrash, Jersey Shore, Big Brother, The Golden Girls, etc etc – actual gay men writing and singing candidly about their sexuality, politics, and gender, still come across as a bit too much for the mainstream. In other words, Kinsey Sicks, darlings:
Until no-one bats an eye about the gender configurations, sexual orientations and multiplicity of gradations ranging from polarised gender identities, and expressions to truly bi- and ambiguous combos then....
Blast the mainstream with things that are true, real and really just beautiful--that is anyone's gender identity in any form--and whose ever retinas burn, then for those people give them their right to read through history about Mary Antoinette and read 'let them eat cake', and see themselves in her fate. Tear down the parts of the machine that are the contrivances and 'abomination' that is prejudice.
*puts stilettos on my pet cat* :)