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DAHLIA Seminal classic from the queen of electro bohemia |
Madonna (if she knew how to
rock like Alice Cooper), mixed with Peaches (if she knew how to word
like Patti Smith)... Comparisons with Dahlia are tricky. She's a
fearless performer, and can polarise an audience with almost Johnny
Rotten-like dispatch, yet at the heart of her work is a tenderness which
makes her infinitely more complex than any of her more obvious
contemporaries. Although human sexuality is an important recurring theme
in her work, she is civilised rather than primal, possessed of a sensual
intellect that makes minds dance as much as feet. Imagine how powerfully
sensuous Madonna's Erotica album would have been if she'd actually read
Christopher Isherwood before making it... That is Dahlia. |
