Personal Jesus vs. Line Dancing
Personal Jesus solidified Depeche Mode’s popularity worldwide – however, it suffered from an unfortunate side effect – line dancing.
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Forbidden Fruit: A Lustful Mix
Love and sex makes the world go ’round – it’s a fact of life – and they offer for a lot, if not most, song lyrics. Love. Lust. Passion. Where would we be without them? What about kink and corruption? Now we’re talking… What is it about the forbidden fruits that make them so much more sweeter to taste? I think it is human nature to have some deviant desires. Of course I consider myself the unofficial queen of unconventional relationships, at least in my circle of friends. It’s no secret I’ve…
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Black Wednesday, Teenage Punk, & the Social Introvert
Long before there was American Horror Story: Coven, my Punk friends in high school and I had a silly little ritual every week – Black Wednesday. When I say long before, I really mean this – I’m talking the late 1980’s. We were Goth way before it was trendy and there was such a thing as Hot Topic. The funny thing about this day was that, aside from Wednesday’s, we almost always wore black to school – every shade of black from pitch black to washed-too-much-faded-out black. Black…
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