ROWLAND ATKINSON blithely proclaimed:
quoted 4 lines Not too sure about this new Aphex Boy/Girl business. I think it is>Not too sure about this new Aphex Boy/Girl business. I think it is
>genuinely quite disturbing. When somebody said about milk from the
>milkman's wifes tits i thought it might be funny, but I am not so
>sure now. Its a bit like misogyny on acid? The best tracks are the
I understand how the line could be interpreted as "disturbing," or even
"sick," but misogynistic? It's too strange and avant-garde. It's more like
the tune begins as something that might be heard in the commercial breaks
between saturday morning cartoons, but then an element is introduced that *a
priori* could not be there. To put it another way, capitalism and sexual
repression go hand-in-hand. Milkman exposes this fact to the listener by
provoking in him a reaction, often, "This is obscene." If said listener
considers why this reaction occurs in him, he finds that it is due to social
conditioning and shame. In confronting this reality, one can overcome it.
Ed
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