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Topic	CasanovaZelos's Top 250 Songs Project
CasanovaZelos 08/22/21 1:35:04 PM #392:	24. Perfume Genius Queen (2014) from the album Too Bright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OSSUwPVM4 Key lyrics: No family is safe when I sashay To exist as a queer person is a political act. This should not be so, but the same is true of every minority population. The big difference is that queerness has no intrinsic surface indicators but, bigots being bigots, there are certainly ideas. Perfume Genius harnesses these images on Queen, bringing to life an impossible amalgamation of contradictory stereotypes. At once, he is both a diseased fop writhing on the floor and an all-powerful indoctrinator roaming the streets to convert defenseless straight men. The chorus really says it all. No family is safe when I sashay, or any other act coded as queer. Because, at the heart of this, it is not our actions but our mere existence that threatens these people. This is about as angry as protest music gets, and Mike Hadreas is the perfect figure for the message, a slender man no reasonable person would find genuinely threatening and yet The verses are guided by a harsh rock arrangement, a grungy guitar serving more ambience than riffs. This is all build-up to that central line, which is punctuated by a piercing, whirring synthesizer. Adrian Utley of Portishead supplies this element, and this harsh transition is the stuff of art pop legend. David Bowie played an androgynous alien while subtly dodging firm statements on his sexuality on Queen, Hadreas plays the Bowie so many young queer people wished him to be. Yet he never retreads, instead updating Art Pop sensibilities for the modern era, morphing grunge, glam, and electronic into his own singular form. This is all in service of giving a voice to the most vulnerable among us, the queer people who cannot mask their identity, so often thrown under the bus by those trying not to appear too gay. Perfume Genius is a walking reminder of their power, and Queen is his finest anthem. --- My top 100 games (with write-ups): https://foolfantastic.com/top-100-video-games-project/ <cite>CasanovaZelos posted [p:957331395] in CasanovaZe... [t:79452388]...</cite> <quote>24. Perfume Genius Queen (2014) from the album Too Bright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OSSUwPVM4 Key lyrics: No family is safe when I sashay To exist as a queer person is a political act. This should not be so, but the same is true of every minority population. The big difference is that queerness has no intrinsic surface indicators but, bigots being bigots, there are certainly ideas. Perfume Genius harnesses these images on Queen, bringing to life an impossible amalgamation of contradictory stereotypes. At once, he is both a diseased fop writhing on the floor and an all-powerful indoctrinator roaming the streets to convert defenseless straight men. The chorus really says it all. No family is safe when I sashay, or any other act coded as queer. Because, at the heart of this, it is not our actions but our mere existence that threatens these people. This is about as angry as protest music gets, and Mike Hadreas is the perfect figure for the message, a slender man no reasonable person would find genuinely threatening and yet The verses are guided by a harsh rock arrangement, a grungy guitar serving more ambience than riffs. This is all build-up to that central line, which is punctuated by a piercing, whirring synthesizer. Adrian Utley of Portishead supplies this element, and this harsh transition is the stuff of art pop legend. David Bowie played an androgynous alien while subtly dodging firm statements on his sexuality on Queen, Hadreas plays the Bowie so many young queer people wished him to be. Yet he never retreads, instead updating Art Pop sensibilities for the modern era, morphing grunge, glam, and electronic into his own singular form. This is all in service of giving a voice to the most vulnerable among us, the queer people who cannot mask their identity, so often thrown under the bus by those trying not to appear too gay. Perfume Genius is a walking reminder of their power, and Queen is his finest anthem. --- My top 100 games (with write-ups): https://foolfantastic.com/top-100-video-games-project/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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