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GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 18/11/2010 18:34

me again and banging on about my show again honestly this is providing a welath of information and sometimes it's more beneficial to excavate from pretentious non-theatre types.

We're creating soundtracks for the half hour in the bar and space before the show starts and want misongynistic songs which cross the last 60-70years. There's obviously tons in modern R&B but we've found some Andy Williams, Cliff Richard, Alice Cooper etc. We want male only voices for this.

During the interval we need 5 songs to play which are sung by women, referring to oppression of women (eg Kate Bush - A Woman's Work)

The end is the really tough one. We don't want power ballads or anything by Whitney Houston or the spice girls but definately uplifting songs about female empowerment

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saucetastic · 19/11/2010 21:28

Maybe for the Tarantella, have a listen to Charlie Mingus' The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Huge frenzied crescendos in that album - though it could be a job editing as shortest track is around 6.5 minutes. It has an extremely sleazy jazz sound though, if that could suit?

There's The Feeling Begins - another peter gabriel score for film track, which may be a little over-used but is quite effective.

HerBeatitude · 19/11/2010 21:28

Oh another one about domestic violence - Thank You by Jamelia

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aDarkStarWithStrangeWays · 19/11/2010 20:33

Oh, I forgot a classic piece of nasty misogynistic rap: by Snoop Dogg, a delightful paean to how gang banging is okay because 'bitches ain't shit'.

Might be a bit much though!

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GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 19:59

AH! also, we need a song/piece of music for the Tarantella, a dance Nora performs at a party in a whore outfit her husband has chosen as her fancy dress. The traditional is an italian dance ('fishergirls'), I'm opening the 2nd act after the interval with all 5 girls doing the dance onstage, so needs to build to a massive crescendo, frenzy onstage, uncontrollable. I'm a bit wary of using 'pop' music or anything with lyrics in because then it has to be exactly right (not about DV relationships, but maybe about pornification/objectification of women)...would prefer it to be classical I think because that will heighten the theatricality, but any suggestions welcome!

Will pop a massive thankyou to you all in the programme

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GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 19:56

prob a hell of a lot of them to be honest! We need 30-40 mins for the opening (male-sung songs of misogyny), 15-20mins for interval (we think female songs of oppression) then quite a lot for the end of the play (female songs of empowerment)...the latter is difficult because I want quite subtle songs rather than Girl Power vein, as the ending is incredibly sad...she leaves her children and everything she's ever known - what she's doing is terrifying but incredibly brave. And her husband doesn't knowingly (intentionally) oppress her, it's as much society so I don't want it to seem anti-men in any way. BUT playlist so far (needs cutting down but more additions welcome):

I'm not your toy - la roux
lay, lady, lay AND just like a woman - bob dylan
senza una donna - paul young
back off bitch AND you could be mine - guns'n'roses
wives and lovers AND music to watch girls by - andy williams
smack my bitch up - prodigy
baby bitch - ween
dumb head - ginny arnell
everybody knows you cried last night - fratellis
under my thumb - stones
fuck her gently - tenacious d
the bitch song - bowling for soup
she's always a woman - billy joel
the bitch is back - elton john
living doll - cliff richard
it's different for girls - joe jackson
girls - beastie boys
your woman - white town
pretty woman - roy orbison
it's a man's world - james brown
that's not my name - ting tings
human nature - madonna
all women are bad - vince ray
room for the life AND a woman's work - Kate Bush
99 problems - Jay Z
woman's been after you ever since - blind alfred reed
big time sensuality - bjork
thin line between love and hate - pretenders
i am woman - helen reddy
not a pretty girl - ani difranco
when i was a boy - dar williams
bang bang AND these boots are made for walking - nancy sinatra
run for your life - beatles
can't hold us down - christina aguilera
put him out - msdynamite
one girl revolution - superchick
every breath you take - police
motherland - natalie merchant
love will tear us apart - joy division
are you my woman? - the chi-lites
i'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair - ella fitzgerald
crucify - tori amos
the pill - loretta lynn
pissing in a river - patti smith
chantilly lace - the big bopper
you don't own me - dusty springfield

Need interval songs most I think....Crucify, bang bang, when i wa a boy, these kind of songs...

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SleepingLion · 19/11/2010 19:29

What about - Karyn White, I'm Not Your Superwoman.

SleepingLion · 19/11/2010 19:23

I love from First Wives Club! Blush

msrisotto · 19/11/2010 19:23

girlwiththemouseyhair - are you going to use any of the suggestions? Which ones? [nosey]

saucetastic · 19/11/2010 19:18

Maybe, Four Women by Nina Simone for interval music, although just as much to do with race as gender.

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HerBeatitude · 19/11/2010 17:38

Another gruesome one is |"He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)" by the Crystals (Phil Spector, famous abuser and wife murderer's Wall of Sound, nuff said)

TheGruffaloMami · 19/11/2010 17:23

the Saturdays - missing you.
the lyrics make my skin crawl

Lisa Stansfield - All Woman

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 15:29

Hey not sure where this would fit in but seems very apt. (Jack White but singing in a very high voice)

lyrics here

You've got her in your pocket
And there's no way out now
Put it in the safe and lock it
'cause it's at home sweet home

Nobody ever told you that it was the wrong way
To trick a woman, make her feel she did it her way

etc

GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 14:19

blind alfred reed - you are horrid horrid horrid...can't find a link but spotify "woman's been after you ever since"

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aDarkStarWithStrangeWays · 19/11/2010 14:05
gives a rather sad account of how it feels to be deep in an obsessive relationship, although not sure if they meant it that way or just thought it was 'romantic' Hmm

Lyrics here.

GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 19/11/2010 13:44

thanks - think we really want to seperate out the sound though, distinctly male voices then female

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saucetastic · 19/11/2010 13:27

If your female empowerment songs can be sung by a man, then the lyrics of Shaking the tree by Peter Gabriel are excellent. It may have been covered by others.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:12

*Sisters, that is.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:12

:o BTP. Think I liked these songs a lot when I was e.g. 16, and wrote the silliness off as (in e.g. Chantilly Lace) him being a silly old buffer.

Everyone needs to watch the video to btw if you haven't already. Bloody lovely.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 13:01

IMO the Big Bopper is the one who sounds like a great dafty in that song. "Ain't nothing in the world like a big eyed girl to make me act so funny make me spend my money make me feel real loose like a long necked goose etc". No worse than e.g. "He's So Fine" which is more stalky if anything.

Delilah is another creepy murdery song.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/11/2010 12:58

I love that one too BTP! Everyone needs to lay off the classic rock and roll tracks or I will weep into my pointy bra and sweater combo.

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