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Originally Posted by sonicl
Okay, the suggestion that I'm trying to make is that Sleeper and Elastica are post-riot grrrl versions of The Primitives and The Darling Buds, whereby the pop songs of the latter are laced with the feminist attitudes of Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill. The Blondie reference is a red herring inserted into the equation because it's illegal to create such equations without any reference to their overall influence on post-1981 girl-fronted pop groups.
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I'm sorry, but where did you detect the feminist attitude in Elastica? Sleeper's Louise Wener was a little more that way inclined, on certain interviews, but far from having the sort of militant attidude of Bikini Kill or Huggy Bear. The Blondie bit is totally spot on, though.