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"It's two in the morning/My beeper's going off/I'm naked I roll over/Enough is enough/These bitches always calling me/Morning noon and night/Gladys and Rhonda Darlene/She's tight/What can I say/They can't stay away/From the best cock/On the block today."
Back from the KindaMuzik office in the subway, I was taking a look at this month's records. I got a little pissed by Bitch and Animal, because I think good records should convince listeners by their music and by thought-through lyrics. Tough words might get a band a following, but that would have to be a dubious following. If someone who calls herself Bitch writes songs with titles like 'Best Cock on the Block¹ this would have to be a wannabe big name. It turns out that this was not the case. 'Best Cock on the Block' is not another macho gangsta hip-hop credo. Actually, B&A prefer an "extra firm dildo" to the 'Best Cock on the Block'. Should we conclude this is some penis envy-correlated action by two frustrated lesbians? I think not. It's a funny and very sharp persiflage of macho crap. As Nathalie wrote recently in her Britney Spears review (see below on this page), pop music is all about hidden sex, and rock music is all about plain sex. B&A blend pure rock and pop music with rap, funk, and folk. With this, their sharp lyrics, and animated performance, B&A gained a cult following. A following which mounted with their debut album, 'What's That Smell?' and which will certainly mount with the second, 'Eternally Hard'. After a couple of songs it turns out that B&A are not the hard bitch and the bad animal they pretend to be in some of the songs. 'Passports' and 'Mother's Day', for instance, show the soft side of B&A. They not only have a talent for ironic lyrics, but also for more personal and emotional stuff: "Did I mention that I miss you/And I love you sometimes/Not in that famous star-crossed way/In that love with a limit way/ Isn't it nice/I still don¹t know/What you do for money/Isn't it nice only your art/Came up in conversation/Isn¹t that nice?" ('Six States Away') Unfortunately, this song is followed up by 'Ganja', a wannabe funny rip-off of Christian anthem 'In Excelsis Deo'. This time they did not succeed: The song is stupid, simple, over the top (but not enough), and provided with a very irritating second voice part. On the other hand, this is the only weak song out of 13, so what am I going on about? If the 'Pussy Revolution' (a spread-it-yourself revolution initially inspired by the thought to use the word pussy as a compliment - see B&A's website for details) comes about, this might become a very big duo.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/bitch-and-animal/eternally-hard/942/
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