Slut by Pretty Flowers
So it's basically just a punk song about a slutty girl. It's pretty okay I guess. Definitely the best song by the Pretty Flowers. But that doesn't matter.
What does matter is this. In the first verse they establish that her promiscuity stems from her insecurity and that she ought to get some help. So right away I'm sympathetic to her, because y'know, I'm just the kind of guy who feels for unhappy slutty girls. But then for the rest of the song she is just cruelly lambasted for being, well, a slut.
It probably shouldn't bother me, but it does. It's all like "Sure, she's a slut. But more like one of those poor waif sluts who just needs our pity and understanding. No, just kidding! She's a slutty slut! Slutty whorish impetuous strumpet style slut! She's got STDs coming out of her ears! And also from her genitals. But mostly her ears"
Hey, that's another thing. The villainization of STDs, what's the deal with that? I mean, for years AIDS has been declared the ungodly leprosy of fags and monkeys, but even things like syphillis and gonorrhea are treated like the mark of cheap crack whore prostitutes and sluts. Having an STD is not an indication of the character of a person! Most cases of facial herpes are actually passed on by sharing drinks.
I mean, let's be honest, I picked up HIV, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, crabs, and syphilis through sheer unrepetant promiscuity, but many of the people I passed them on to were respectable sorts who happened to be rebounding from a long term relationship and needed to expend some frustration and unhappiness through alcohol and bad decisions.
Anyway. The song. 7/10
So it's basically just a punk song about a slutty girl. It's pretty okay I guess. Definitely the best song by the Pretty Flowers. But that doesn't matter.
What does matter is this. In the first verse they establish that her promiscuity stems from her insecurity and that she ought to get some help. So right away I'm sympathetic to her, because y'know, I'm just the kind of guy who feels for unhappy slutty girls. But then for the rest of the song she is just cruelly lambasted for being, well, a slut.
It probably shouldn't bother me, but it does. It's all like "Sure, she's a slut. But more like one of those poor waif sluts who just needs our pity and understanding. No, just kidding! She's a slutty slut! Slutty whorish impetuous strumpet style slut! She's got STDs coming out of her ears! And also from her genitals. But mostly her ears"
Hey, that's another thing. The villainization of STDs, what's the deal with that? I mean, for years AIDS has been declared the ungodly leprosy of fags and monkeys, but even things like syphillis and gonorrhea are treated like the mark of cheap crack whore prostitutes and sluts. Having an STD is not an indication of the character of a person! Most cases of facial herpes are actually passed on by sharing drinks.
I mean, let's be honest, I picked up HIV, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, crabs, and syphilis through sheer unrepetant promiscuity, but many of the people I passed them on to were respectable sorts who happened to be rebounding from a long term relationship and needed to expend some frustration and unhappiness through alcohol and bad decisions.
Anyway. The song. 7/10
posted by graham at 9:51 PM
6 Comments:
slut
we like to call them VDs now.
it's the politically correct version.
VD is actually the predecessor of STD! STI, sexually transmitted infection, is the new wave.
it's true, VD is so eighties.
I can smell the VD in the club tonight.
Respect to anyone who can tell me the EVER SO FUCKING POPULAR song that comes from. You should be ashamed to NOT know.
Excuse me please, would you tell me how to get to the Soviet embassy?
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