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The first time I remember becoming acutely aware of how I was being perceived was around age 13 or 14. This was in the late 2000s, before Instagram, or even iPhones, but that doesn’t mean an imaginary camera lens wasn’t zooming in on young girls constantly. Body hair needed to be shaved off completely before it had even arrived. Breasts needed to be perky and round. Stomachs had to be pancake flat. This, we were taught, was how men liked it. And if we weren’t appealing to men, then what was the point of us, really?
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It’s 2006 and I’m sitting cross-legged, my face about 30cm from the lounge room television.
I’ve plugged my headphones into the AUX jack at the front of the unit and I’m clutching the VCR remote close to my chest. I’d managed to record the music video for ‘All The Things She Said’ and was watching it on repeat. I was fixated by this clip; the spooky green lighting, chaotic camera movement and of course, the hot lesbian schoolgirls making out in the rain in front of a crowd.
Now, as Poppy revealed in a new interview, work is almost complete on her next album. Asked by
SPIN about new material she’d previously discussed at the beginning of quarantine in March, Poppy said: “I still intend on releasing what I was doing in March, but it morphed into something else. I actually have my hand in a couple of projects at the moment. But one of them is about 95 percent done, and I am itching to release that.
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“About a month ago in L.A., I got my touring band together, and we got to record a new album. It was a process I’d never experienced but knew I always wanted to do. It was very organic.”
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