bangles

it is enough to see these two videoclips (the last one is one of my all-time mega favourites) of a well-known American all-girl band The Bangles - to understand the striking change in the overall projected image of the band. i mean at first you see no attention to beautification, the "we are what we are" attitude, and staunch feminist-like approach, and later you see the total opposite. swinging hips, mini skirts, femme fatale image, the dinosaurs of rock show mistresses - i don't know if this actually happened because those women aged, or if the music industry gave them a helping hand and showed them the right direction to get loads of money. or, well - did the times simply change - it was more fashionable to be anti-something and explosive - in the start of the 80's when the punk boom has not yet subsided totally? i don't really know. and susanna hoffs singing style transforming to that doll-like sweet rasp we all melted to listening to "eternal flame" - someone really knew what this side of male/female public would melt to (or is it just me? - am i beaing sexist? nowadays it becomes more and more difficult to sort that out, especially trying to explain it to somebody else). anyway. just a couple of thoughts. see ya.

it is almost hard to believe it's the same susanne hoffs as here (oh what a piece of music... i am crawling with nostalgia worms all over.. sorry..)

wehll and this here is my bombastic all-time fav. black clad stunning rock divas galore!  (oh and they sing something about being with me! oh i AM melting all over)

[meh editing] ah well and, by the way, see what they had up their sleeve, before they did anything that put them right on the spotlight.. (i am pretty sure this videoclip is some kind of a mix of other clips - i am not even sure if the bangles are depicted on it at all - but the song is bangles allright)