Thursday, January 16, 2020

Song of the Day: 'Page of Cups' by Maria McKee


From the Lone Justice chanteuse's upcoming LP, "La Vita Nuova." (This one's better than the album's first release, "Effigy of Salt.")  


I have so much love and affection for Maria. But I must confess it has been hard watching her middle-age transition into queerdom slip into delusions of grandeur. I'm thrilled she is finally being her authentic self -- she's recently become obsessed with movies about cults, just like her brainwashed mother and famous brother -- and her desire to help the greater LGBT community is admirable. (Her goal for 2020 is starting a nonprofit to fund facial-feminization surgery.) But she's so earnest and out of touch with reality that she almost reminds me of Jerri Blank, if Jerri had been a coddled pop star who went back to school as the most progressive member of Gen Z. (She seems truly clueless how tone-deaf she sounds as a cis white woman who went to Beverly Hills High School railing against ... gay white men while endlessly championing people who murder gay men of color.) Sadly, mental illness runs in her family -- and mine -- so I know the signs. Still, eager for the new album. It seems like it's even more Broadway than her last two -- very Alice Ripley!



UPDATE:


As I was saying ...

1 comment:

Blobby said...

yay. i had NO idea she had anything on the horizon.