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[thebelladonna]

i understand the whole liam gallgher-john-lennon-reincarnate-thingy but noel,with his hair extra shaggy in some sunglasses, looks exactly like lennon. also whole time gem archer looks just like mccartney. liam just looked like a more healthy, wall eyed, non-anorexic sid viscous with a mod cut.

[ohmygodwhatsthis]

Manic Street Preachers | Kevin Carter | Directed by John Hillcoat

[columbiasawmillsouttake]

oasis 09 aaa pass vía some_friendly on ig

[fashionitgirls73]

twiggy

[thebelladonna]

i love being a lesbian with a gay brother. who was my first kiss and whom i was feverishly in love with for many many years and reciprocated back. now we don’t kiss and touch each other anymore but he’s still one of my first loves. nowt wrong with love.

[thebelladonna]

As an extremely pretentious woman, one who has lived around London, worked in a record shop, played baby groupie, and simply lived and breathed the British and Irish music scene for the entirety of her youth, I'd like to think I know about music.

I love punk rock, so the one thing I cannot fucking stand is the Sex Pistols. How did this group of whiny, untalented men manage to become the face of one of the most important subgenres of music history? Besides having a name just a just as whiny 18 year old boy would find cool and the styling of Vivienne Westwood, that band fucking reeked of attention-seeking mania that's only akin to debauched football hooliganism. They wore leather and scraps while playing out-of-tune guitars. They made one album. Hoo-ra.

I'm so saint nor am I only a lover of saintly things. I fucking adore when an artist or public figure is willing to get nasty and dangerous. Punk is nasty and dangerous, but what is nasty and dangerous without the means for it? Negating its aesthetic approaches and only focusing on the ideologies, messages, and dogma of punk, the Sex Pistols have fuck all. Ain't nothing punk about beating up venue workers, smashing bottles over audience heckler's faces, and wearing Nazi symbols on your top. When your most radical piece of work is bashing Elizabeth II as if every other working-class young person with a working brain was not doing so then and now.

Nothing about this band outside of an image is punk, because punk is The Clash. Not just that image of Paul Simonon smashing his guitar on stage, and not even their iconic rockabilly aesthetic. It's Joe Strummer penning White Riot after the Notting Hill Carnival of 1976. An altercation of complete power imbalance between Black youths and an abusive police force. In the band's very first official music video, Strummer is wearing an H-block T-shirt in support of the Irish Republican political prisoners. It's Tommy Gun. Guns of Brixton. It's fucking Rock the Casbah. That's what fucking punk is.

Punk is that sneering and angry stutter when Roger Daltrey lets out "I hope I die before I get old" in My Generation.

When Patti Smith said how Jesus died for somebody's sins but not hers.

Jimi Hendrix when he lit his strat on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival. Coaxing those flames out like some psychedelic pagan god.

It's Stevie Nicks speaking in tongues while in tears during an infamous performance of Sisters of the Moon in 1982. That's fucking punk.

I believe punk is rejection; it's magic, it's fight, and it's vulnerability, but courage and anger just as much.

Punk is everyfuckingthing Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were singing for. It's Billie Holiday. It's The Pill by Loretta Lynn. Army Dreamers by Kate Bush. Ozzy Osbourne singing about environmental destruction. Cat Stevens. Donovan. Sam Cooke.

Everything the Manic Street Preachers stood for, and continue to do so. If You Tolerate This Than Your Children Will Be Next........

It is not his overwhelmingly public personal troubles and messy behavior but his endless passion towards art of the past and the atrocities of the present and future that make Peter Doherty a punk legend. The two leading singles of The Libertine's debut album both waxing rock n roll poetic on violence, God, and police brutality.

It's Johnny Cash and Sinéad O'Connor's entire careers.

It's the gorgeous and unashamed androgyny of Bowie and Jagger. It's Kurt Cobain and Nicky Wire hopping on stages in front of thousands adorned in little floral baby-doll dresses.

Punk is k.d. Lang being an openly sensual and handsome butch lesbian in the early 90s. Accepting an award in a horrid, gaudy wedding dress, prancing about after being criticized for wearing men's suits in 1985. Her face is youthful and blushed, her hair cropped, and her words being "I will only sing for what's right."

Punk is Madonna. End of sentence.

Funny enough, there is something about Noel Gallagher complaining about politics yet having numerous references to a lower/working-class perspective within his work.

Just because an artist is not clad in leather or rasping into a microphone does not make them a symbol of a genre or movement. Anyways, fuck the pistols.

[thebelladonna]

as someone who lived as and is fascinated with the rockstar girlfriend-ism aura and culture, my most recent favourite example of it is is strangely anaïs gallagher which is probably something something freud….

[hopeyoufindyoursuburbium]

Deo Suveera

[thebelladonna]

happy birthday to the one and only<3 live 4ever and ever and ever

& ofc pics by one of my favourite music photographers of all time jill furmanovsky x

[winouna]

[thebelladonna]

idc that he only can pluck some 12 chords. noel gallagher said "if i had a gun/ i'd shoot a hole into the sun/and love will burn this city down for you" is so.......technical talent is one thing. a natural god-given gift of being able to write some of the most beautiful proclamations of love is a something barely seen. some real orpheus-folktale-immortal type shit.

[thebelladonna]

i think brett anderson is an immortal vampire. the passion in this human’s voice is something so unique it cannot be real.

[nobrashfestivity]

Loie Fuller, early 1900′s

[thebelladonna]

my older lesbian bf and i when we have a baba together🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

[thebelladonna]

yes honey the self proclaimed radical feminists of twitter dot com are arguing with, degrading, and shaming lesbians who use strap ons during sex. yes honey they’re claiming it’s heteronormative. oh no they don’t have the patience or thought process to know that penetration feels good. oh honey i don’t know if they’re aware that it’s scientifically proven that phallic shaped mechanisms(real or not) are constructed in a way to give pleasure. of course they’re claiming that two lesbians using a sex toy is heteronormative. oh honey i hope they know the rhetoric they’re using is another form of purity culture. that they sound exactly like close minded straight people when they talk about lesbian sex. oh honey i gotta tell them that no one is forcing them to even use a strap on toy.

that anyone whom is secure enough within their sexuality and has actually had a healthy sexual relationship, or carries any relative sense of maturity really, does not define someone’s person or character with what’s lying between their legs. of course the curtains are never always just blue. oh honey cause that’s tedious and redundant. yes of course self proclaimed feminists don’t carry the nuance to understand the fantasy and performance of a lesbian using a strap on toy compared to the possible affirming and less performance-based nature a trans man or trans masculine individual might use it. oh honey it’s painful to see this decades old sense of ignorance and hate within young people who have information and learning at their fingertips.

you are not some valerie-solanas-dworkin-robin-morgan-grand-gender-critical-thinker. you’re a hateful young woman with a hateful internet presence. maybe following in the footsteps of those great female writers with extremely close minded brains. writers whose prose was stylish and intelligent sounding enough on a surface level to delicately cover how horrific their hate actually is. go to the club. put some music on. dance. talk to flowers. pick up some judith butler. some audre lorde.

your hate for the groups you think you are better than will not save you no matter how radical you might believe your ideologies are.<3

[thebelladonna]

they’re so bigbrotherlittlesister coded👼

[iwantyou1966]

Manic Street Preachers' fans holding photo of Richey Edwards, United Kingdom, 25th March 2012. Photos by Kevin Cummins