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Katey Red / USA. New Orleans. Looking for America.
BIG FREEDIA - EXPLODE [5.22] Sad but true: not only are we reviewing more Drake than Big Freedia, he's even outscoring her...
Katherine St Asaph: KATHERINEKATHERINEKATHERINEKATHERINE* RELEASE YOUR JOB, RELEASE THE TIME, RELEASE YOUR TRADE, RELEASE THE STRESS. Just found my new 5 p.m. Monday on the Internet music, folks. *(that wasn't the actual lyric, but it is now!) [7]
Crystal Leww: March forward to the commands of the Queen Diva. Big Freedia does a lot of the same, but honestly if you put like twenty of these songs on a mixtape for me, I would listen to the whole damn thing. [7]
Anthony Easton: Big Freedia can release anything she wants, up to but not limited to any krakens she might have, because I believe her when she tells me it will be all right. [8]
Alfred Soto: The best thing I can write: someone should sample the stentorian "LET'S GO!" [4]
Thomas Inskeep: I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around the "popularity" of sissy bounce. What I hear is a a big black queen shouting at me, repetitively, over and over, like a hammer to the head, with an empty Casio drum-machine beat going in the background. I think there's a very specific reason that bounce is a regional phenom -- it doesn't translate to non-native speakers. [1]
Jonathan Bradley: Big Freedia songs are best gauged by the efficiency through which they transmogrify chanting into club-wide ass-shaking, and by that standard, "Explode" is the moment in her set where you might start wondering how long until its time for "Gin in My System" or "Azz Everywhere." "Release your wiggle" is a call designed to be liberatory but is in practice passive, and the blue-collar salve of "I've been working all day, I've been working all night ... release your job" is more fun to theorize about than dance to. [5]
Mallory O'Donnell: "Release your wiggle" is possibly the best invitation to dance ever, but the punishing CD-skip jack track "Explode" invites you to dance to is not for the faint of heart. It is what you would call a non-groove. NOW GET DOWN. [5]
Brad Shoup: There's nothing here as compelling as Freedia's howl -- certainly not those sub-Beastie Boys expressions of empathy -- even as it steals inertia from the track. The bounce should be its own reward. [4]
Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Imagine a heist movie where Freedia has to yell her demands down a walker at some point. How great a scene would that be? Let's call the movie Sissy Heat. Oh, and this could be on the soundtrack I guess, and we could get the rights to head straight into the "Triggerman" drop instead of teasing everyone. SISSY HEAT: SUMMER 2015! [6]
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The Fortune Teller
A Film by Leo Herrera
The Fortune Teller is a film by artist/activist Leo Herrera, chronicling milestones and icons of the modern gay man. The story is told through the trance of The Fortune Teller (played by Stanley Frank) and created using archival and modern footage. The film is a documentary and time capsule, paying homage to psychedelic films of the 1960′s and the modern art of the YouTube Montage film. From Mapplethorpe to Lohanthony, Uganda to Burning Man, Vogue to Sissy Bounce, AIDS to The Berlin Patient, meticulously edited clips create a kaleidoscopic five-minute journey through more than 50 years of gay history.
Leo Herrera:
...Homosexuality transcends culture, geography and race. Homophobia is the same in New York City as it is in Russia. Our sexual freedom is as reviled in America as in Uganda. And yet we are moving forward on a global scale. The legalization of our unions is spanning continents, the unmistakeable softness of our gestures transcends language. I don't know if these universal similarities make 'gay' a culture, a race or a shared experience. What I do know is that they stir a deep pride in me that is almost religious.
Big Freedia and Sissy Nobby outside the Knitting Factory in Manhattan in 2009. Think this was Freedias first show outside of NOLA.
SISSY NOBBY - INTERVIEW
SISSY NOBBY - LIKE A HURRICANE (music video)
BIG FREEDIA - INTERVIEW
BIG FREEDIA - Y'ALL GET BACK NOW (music video)