Joy of Tights (aka pantyhose): Pantyhose Performance 2. (Although these may be tights actually)

Saturday 26 January 2013

Pantyhose Performance 2. (Although these may be tights actually)

In a earlier post I said how good it is to wear tights on stage if you are a rock band. Well this post is further evidence, and today's featured band is the Dum Dum Girls.

We see a lot of pantyhose styles here - plain black, striped and patterned tights

Dum Dum Girls is the project of singer and songwriter Dee Dee and started in Los Angeles in late 2008. She is currently based in New York City with the rest of the band in Los Angeles. The name is a double homage to The Vaselines' album Dum Dum and the Iggy Pop song "Dum Dum Boys."

You can see that their style is black tights on stage - but not all the same - a range of patterns. The tights are combined with low heels.

The different tights and shoe styles indicate the girls are non-conformist, free spirits. If you are more an X factor product band you would all wear the same.

Is that a little hole I see on the right

Jules and Dee Dee

Apparently lead singer/guitarist Dee Dee never takes off her sheer, black, vertical striped tights. (Well not never, never on stage maybe). Apparently she wore them on the first gig, saw they looked good and carried on with them. They are from a store in New York.

Perhaps the choice of black tights indicates the "dark" side.

Satan on my lips

Here it lies by his wicked kiss

Taking baby sips

To keep and an eye on what I might miss

Will I dream tonight

There's nothing left, there is no light

Need you here to be my guide

Pull me out to the other side

I've dreamed a death

It's mine tonight

Mirror's hazy film

Protects me from the state I'm in

I can't recognize

The face that wears these vacant eyes

I've dreamed a death

It's mine tonight

Tonight I'll sleep, my eulogy

Oh won't you sleep in with me

I slip away, I fall asleep

I've dreamed a death I cannot cheat

Is that a upside down cross at the back

Do the lyrics envisage a final fatal snog from Mephistopheles himself?

The Dum Dum girls are political too, supporting planned parenthood

The Pope don't like it - but will these legs in tights turn him on?

What about the lyrics.....

Oh whoa-oh

I take as much as I can get

I don't take any regret

I close my eyes to conjure up something

But it's just a faint taste in my mouth

I think I'm coming down

By tomorrow I'll be leaving

By tomorrow I'll gone

If you want to tell me something

You had better make it strong

'Cause I think I'm coming down

I think I'm coming down

(Here I go)

I think I'm coming down

(Here I go)

I think I'm coming down

(Here I go)

I think I'm coming down

Here I go

There I go

You abuse the ones who love you

You abuse the ones who won't

If you ever had a real heart

I don't think you'd know where to start

'Cause I think I'm coming down

I think I'm coming down

Yeah, I think I'm coming down

Yes, I think I'm coming down

A ode to abusive love

She drinks as much as she can without regret of getting really drunk to make her memory of her ex fade away. The faint taste in her mouth has double meaning - the faint taste of alcohol and the faint taste in her mouth which is used as an expression to describe a faded memory.

"If you want to tell me something.You had better make it strong"

- Also a double entendre - Whatever it is he has to say, she is telling him he needs to be upfront about it now or never. She wants to be prepared to hear what he has to say by drinking heavily to numb the pain.

I think I'm coming down - from the high of drink or drugs

"You abuse the ones who love you. You abuse the ones who won't. If you ever had a real heart. I don't think you'd know where to start"

- He's obviously hurt her and taken her love for him for granted. He doesn't have any real emotional attachment to anyone though he pretends to. She sees through this though and knows he will never really care because he is a fucked up person. Hence the last line.