A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
Bjork‘s video for “Arisen My Senses” I love the visuals for Bjork’s 2017 album Utopia: the utopia they imagine is sensual, messy, feminine, androgynous, synthetic, and animal. I’m equally touched by the collaborations that helped make this utopia: drag makeup by Hungry, silicone headpieces and masks by James Merry, music videos by Jesse Kanda, and coproduction by Arca. I sense kinship in the way they talk about each other in interviews, and it’s made literal in the video for “Arisen My Senses”—Bjork and Arca are attached by a sort of umbilical cord. Their real-life friendship and onscreen experiments with the body are part of a queer utopia I want in on.
Chae Buttuh, HoFi: A Collection of Glam Trap & Hoe Hymns These songs by North Carolina rapper Chae Buttuh prove how important it is for us to widen our understanding of who gets to be a riot grrrl. Not all riot-grrrl stories are about an existential suburban isolation crisis. Some riot-grrrl stories are about sex work, sugar daddies, and trade.
