We are back to
going through bands who have followed me on Twitter for a while now (my next
live show is September 8th), and that brings us to Eva And Her Virgins, a dark
electro-pop band from New York.
I'm afraid I
don't like them. I hate writing off bands like that, but it is not working for
me. It is mainly the "dark" part. There is just kind of a nasty vibe,
with a cynical vulgarity. Actually, they remind me a little of Romeo Void.
Singer Emily
Powers is a performance artist, which makes total sense watching them perform.
(There are a few videos on Youtube, though they do not seem to have an official
channel.) It also means that I can't rule out that I am missing their point.
Looking at one
video of "Disrespect", one commenter
said the song was a play on words of growing out of being disrespected. So,
when she is singing about him beating her, but her staying, and her loving him
for disrespecting her, that the message is actually that she is growing out of
this unhealthy mindset.
This may be
true, and the band could actually be working to subvert some of the more
unhealthy trends in relationships. However, subversion done ineffectively can
reinforce what it is trying to fight, and I am not sure this is working. It
seems like it would be very easy to ogle Powers in her teddy and hope for his
own woman he can treat badly.
Band
co-founder Jabbath Roa is a classically trained composer and producer, and so
the music performance is solid. Every now and then there are some musical
surprises, like a different groove on "Hammer" or a change of pace on
"Johnny". It's just not enough for me. If you are more into
electro-pop, or more into dark, it might be.
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