If You Still Need an Idol

Lately I've been watching tons of old music videos for classics like Eurythmics, Siousxie, basically anything with my female role models of style and badassery. there is something solidifying about watching those videos, maybe there is something more real about seeing them in person, with hair and makeup and clothes that other youth as myself must have admired, but most of all that element of uniqueness and spunk that sets them apart from the rest of the world. It lets me know I'm not the only one who wants to live life on my terms, 'Up Bondage Up Yours.' I'm just not famous (yet).

I don't know where this came from, but I found this music video of women rock legends to the music of one of my favorite punk bands X-Ray Spex, "The Day the World Turned Dayglo." If you don't have a chickrock idol yet, select one now:



And if you want to see the actual video, and one of my dear idols Poly Styrene (look for the one with braces), here it is: