IWasBored
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i feel like i want to hear that xiu xiu album now for all the wrong reasons, and i don't even know what that means.
NSFW video for "Dear God, I Hate Myself" (not for the squeamish!!!):
New Xiu Xiu Video – “Dear God, I Hate Myself” (Stereogum Premiere) - Stereogum
The video was my idea. Jamie didn’t exploit me or coerce me or anything like that.
Although this was a while ago, I grew up around a lot of people who were bulimic. Well not just bulimic, but had a lot of various issues with self hatred that were expressed in a million various ways, including cutting and drug use. Although I still encounter all various sorts of self-loathing, perhaps because bulimia was the most visible, prevalent, and even normalized form of self-destruction at a very impressionable age, I will always think of it as a major form of self-hatred. There is also something very physically torturous and viscerally disturbing (aka gross!) about the act of vomiting that strikes my fancy, I guess.
I remember one night that one of my friends was completely fucked up on a few different drugs. Then she went through the pantry and fridge eating all kinds of shit. She’d then throw it up, eat more, throw up, eat more throw up. After a couple of hours of this, I told her that she was fucking stupid and dumb and left. I never saw her again, but found out she died a couple years later from overdose. I felt stupid and dumb for calling her pain stupid and dumb.
So yes, me vomiting my brains out on video was gross as hell and it made me feel like shit afterward. Those tears and the “what the fuck is going on” look is sincere. But just because I look like shit does not mean that I didn’t have a choice in doing that.
I don’t know why so many people are assuming that I didn’t have any agency in making of this video. I guess because I’m a young Asian female? Or perhaps some people don’t understand that one can voluntarily choose to hurt themselves physically. Maybe some think it’s just so stupid and dumb that one had to have been forced to do it?
I apologize for the rambling, but I guess I’m just trying to say, please don’t attack Jamie for anything. It was my idea and I chose with full agency, undrugged, uncoerced, to do it. Also, I guess I am trying to explain a little bit why such a gross and stupid act is my way of showing self-hatred — but then again, when is an act of self-hatred ever not gross and stupid?
oxoxoxox
please direct personal attacks, reproaches, unfounded racists/sexist comments, exclamations of outrage to xiuxiuangela@gmail.com
"dear god, i hate myself"
yeah, i'm pretty much loving that song now.
So I've finally gotten around to listening to Twin Shadow, and the album is quite strong. It sounds like a mixture of Grizzly Bear, which might not be surprising given Chris Taylor's involvement, and circa-1982 Depeche Mode.
It'll be cracking my top 15 or so. Chillwave with a backbone: sounds pretty good to me.
I'm curious, of the greater than 100 albums from 2010 that you've listened to this year, how many of them have you listened to more than once?
A Promise > Fabulous Muscles > Knife Play > (Women as Lovers = The Air Force = Dear God, I Hate Myself = La Foret)
Just know that even on an essential Xiu Xiu recording, there will be at least one song which is so dreadful , upsetting, and powerfully off-putting that it will turn your stomach. You've been warned. I'm looking at you, "Walnut House" and friends.
but I know who they are and how their name is pronounced.
Kind of. It's not a hard J, though.Jew Jew right? It's NSWs band?
Simplified: METACRITIC