#I touch myself song full
They were from Geelong, the perpetually unfashionable industrial city that plays New Jersey to Melbourne’s NYC, a city that is in its own way a sort of microcosm of the whole experience of growing up in Australia, full of the sense of being on the outside, looking in. That was a notion that Amphlett’s very existence served to challenge, and in this respect, she was both a pioneer and a provocateur.īut beyond that, Divinyls were notable for kicking in the door in all sorts of ways. People writing obituaries this week have climbed over one another to gush about her “ sex appeal” and “ school uniforms and fishnet stockings.” She was often called “controversial,” a description that’s only accurate in so far as depictions of female sexuality are inherently controversial. It’s just a shame that it remained Divinyls’ only US hit, because while it was certainly representative of their work and general aesthetic, it seems a pity for Amphlett to be remembered as a one-hit wonder when she and her band were influential in so many other ways, both in her native Australia and beyond.Īs has been reasonably well documented, Amphlett was a genuine trailblazer as a female performer - a fact to which even those who’ve only heard “I Touch Myself” can attest. Where, say, Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop” was oblique, “I Touch Myself” was as frank as frank gets. “I Touch Myself,” was a remarkable song, of course - looking back, it’s still amazing that it was such a big hit here, given its subject matter and its utter lack of ingenuousness. But Amphlett, who died in New York of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis this week at only 53, was much more than that.
To American audiences, Chrissy Amphlett was the one who sang “I Touch Myself,” with her band Divinyls.
0 kommentar(er)
