Monday, September 30, 2013

Yoko Ono Has tap-danced Away from Tim

When you think of vaudeville, you think of...Yoko Ono. Right?

You surely NEVER skipped over "I'm Your Angel" on the "Double Fantasy" album, did you?

What could be more amusing than a Japanese Betty Boop?

Some may be a little disgusted by an 80 year-old woman singing campy-gayish stuff, but those people we simply call...heterosexuals.

Put on your fairy wings and fly up to the cloud:

http://yopob.com/take-me-to-the-land-of-hell/11-leaving-tim/

Follow a long a little...

And pay attention to how harrowingly HAAH-ODD she pronounced the word "Hard."

The lyrics have a fairly banal rhyme scheme but seem pretty serious. The music and vocals, however, are quite lah-dee-dah, like a scene out of some Warhol movie where the drag queen puts on her best make-up (ineptly) and struts out of the apartment (manfully) while wearing some cinched-waist dress (painfully) and a flouncy hat (ridiculously) to go find a better life (seriously) not caring what anyone thinks (obviously).

Yoko is capable of good, normal singing. "Walking on Thin Ice" for example. "What a Bastard The World Is" for another. She's also succeeded in a wide range of styles, from the screaming (which worked on the track "Why" from her first album) to Euro-sex avant garde ("Kiss Kiss Kiss").

Yoko can also be CUTE (hear: "Who Has Seen the Wind"). But...you think this one might be...TOO cute?

The song begins with a count-off, "One two three four..." But I listened twice, and that's enough.

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