Fluxblog
July 1st, 2019 12:58am

Handcuff Our Friendship


Sir Babygirl “Cheerleader”

“Cheerleader” is a very charged word, one that evokes a lot of overlapping anxieties about status, conformity, femininity, commodification of teen girls, and how Hollywood has packaged teen archetypes for generations. Kelsie Hogue gleefully dives into all of that in this bombastic and melodramatic pop song, but adds a few extra layers of angst by centering it on latent homoerotic desire and a fraught frenemy relationship between two girls. Hogue sings the song with a touch of irony – you’re certainly meant to hear it in the context of previous iterations of teen pop culture artifacts, and she’s aware of the heightened emotion of the characters. But even still, the level of commitment in the lyrics and vocal performance make it clear that this is coming from a very raw emotional place that’s only just getting filtered through glossiness, camp, and archetypes.

Buy it from Amazon.

RSS Feed for this postNo Responses.


©2008 Fluxblog
Site by Ryan Catbird