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Cinema Bizarre : Visual Kei made in Germany
It does not often happen that a group which has not brought out any album yet generates so much excitement and rumours through blogs, web sites and through word of mouth, by activating such a craze for some months. Teenagers were quickly fascinated by...
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Tokio Hotel, the new european idols
In 2001, German twins called Bill and Tom Kaulitz meet Gustav Schäfer and Georg Listing during a concert : there were respectively 12, 13 and 14 years-old. They founded together Devilish which will become later Tokio Hotel (their name reflects a dynamic...
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Conclusion "Things aren't what they seem"
This quote from the song "Burger Queen" of Placebo, an autobiography of the lead singer Brian Molko, sums up well our subject. " Slightly amused by his lack of direction Came to this world by caesarean section Chooses his clothes to match his pallid complexion...
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Marilyn Manson androgyn by his name.
Brian Hugh Warner born January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson , is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band. His stage name was formed from the names...
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A girl in this blog.
All the bands we talk about were bands of men, but there is one famous androgyn girl who can be quote in our blog : Peaches . Merrill Beth Nisker (born 1966 in Toronto, Ontario), better known as Peaches, is an electronica musician whose songs are concerned...
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The castrato
Androgyny isn't only a matter of apearance but also a matter of voice. The first musical androgyns were the "castrati". ______________________ A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before...
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David Bowie : the King of androgyny
Biography : Teenager, David Robert Jones, his real name, follows lessons of theater and mime, while learning to play diverse instruments. Throughout its career, Bowie will mix confidentially these two genres, creating characters for theatricalize its...
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What is androgyny?
Before writing about music, it seems to be necessary to explain what is, in term of definitions, the androgyny. Medically, it's an ambiguous deformation of the genitalia of the boy. Before its birth, a light hormone deficiency got the last stages of the...
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Why create a blog about androgyny in music?
Nowadays, androgyny is becoming a kind of a fashion in music in particular in rock music: more and more singers make them up and play the game of ambiguity. In fact our society is based on the worship of image and the appearance (on live or in videoclips)...
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Placebo
Placebo was founded when former Luxembourg schoolmates Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal met by chance at South Kensington tube station in 1994; they had previously attended the American International School of Luxembourg together (and Molko had also attended...
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Mylène Farmer : an inscrutable singer
To prove that the androgyny can make inflate the sales of disk, we can take the example of the French singer Mylène Farmer, a real icon in France of the scale of Madonna, which knew how to incur the crowds by diverse games of ambiguities. The one that...
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Christophe Willem : double je
In androgyny, there is not only the physical appearance which can carry in confusion: as we have already seen it with the example of the castratoes, the voice of a person can also show itself asexual. It is the case of numerous Black singers of gospel,...
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Visual Kei : commercial androgyny from Japan
Visual Kei is a particular kind of Japanese rock where the physical appearance of the band’s members is as important as their music. X-Japan, Luna Sea, Malice Mizer and Penicilin were the forerunners of the genre and appeared in 1980’s. Influenced by...
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Lexicon
Androgyne : people who seems to don't be part of a precise gender ; a feminine man or a masculine woman who cultivates this aesthetic. Ambiguity : equivocalness of a particuliar thing, here is for sexuality. Audience : public, probably the most important...