Its about sexual harassment and how awful the music industry is to women. Honestly up until about 2010, it will still male dominated and extremely misogynistic, still is, but hardly what it was before this. Especially as a musician, I have had people tell me I cannot even go on stage... to play my own show, because I was female.
Swimsuit issues generally have women on display, not necessarily swimsuits. Nobody remembers the swimsuits, but it was common for men to have copies of these magazines laying around before the internet was a thing. It was like, soft core playboy.
The idea is that the women Kim Gordon is exemplifying is struggling with an industry that treats her like she is on display for men's use and abuse. When she goes through the names, she's going through the names of the women in the magazine photos, which is also metaphorical of all the women that have been hired to work menial jobs in the industry and then just thrown away like trash because of the femininity. I was proposed so many times by dudes I worked with, only to later down the line, be totally disregarded for positions and jobs that not only was I overqualified for, but jobs I would have been very successful at. Only because the guy doing the hiring didn't want me around his wife because he'd be afraid that his rude ass perverted behavior towards me would surface. All of this is totally unacceptable, but it happens and it did happen ALL THE TIME.
When I say being female in the music industry sucks, I'm not lying. You can be the best at your instrument and job and still be treated like a nobody and just a sexual object, and then set up to fail because those guys don't want their secrets out. That's why Kim mentions "well now you are on the news!"
Its a terrible industry, and the purpose of my visiting this site is my intention to do a cover song version of it. I know Geffen is really strict with the use of their copyrighted and licensed material, so I will probably have a really hard time accessing any sort of permission to do so, but I will still create my own version of this song. I have been waiting 30 years to do so, full of my own true experiences.
In the end, all of those women in the bathing suit issues of sports illustrated or whatever end up having sentience and souls, they aren't just objects... but the situation is more complex. Are you just a name on a list of some gross ass business dude's list of captured prey, or are you a person?
I'm swimmin, I'm swimmin, I am swimming in the vast plethora of women thrown into the sewers by these jackasses who care nothing about talent, capability, humanity, and only about their "whammy" (as is whammy bar on guitar flopping like a weiner)
@Dementedfly swimming as in the colloquial term "He's swimming in the cash!" as in there is so much of it, he will be swimming in it. Its a nice literary play between the title of the song, colloquial english slang (east coast), and the meaning of the statement, and of course, a very wonderful visual after the beautifully dictated array of unique women's names.
@Dementedfly swimming as in the colloquial term "He's swimming in the cash!" as in there is so much of it, he will be swimming in it. Its a nice literary play between the title of the song, colloquial english slang (east coast), and the meaning of the statement, and of course, a very wonderful visual after the beautifully dictated array of unique women's names.
Its about sexual harassment and how awful the music industry is to women. Honestly up until about 2010, it will still male dominated and extremely misogynistic, still is, but hardly what it was before this. Especially as a musician, I have had people tell me I cannot even go on stage... to play my own show, because I was female.
Swimsuit issues generally have women on display, not necessarily swimsuits. Nobody remembers the swimsuits, but it was common for men to have copies of these magazines laying around before the internet was a thing. It was like, soft core playboy.
The idea is that the women Kim Gordon is exemplifying is struggling with an industry that treats her like she is on display for men's use and abuse. When she goes through the names, she's going through the names of the women in the magazine photos, which is also metaphorical of all the women that have been hired to work menial jobs in the industry and then just thrown away like trash because of the femininity. I was proposed so many times by dudes I worked with, only to later down the line, be totally disregarded for positions and jobs that not only was I overqualified for, but jobs I would have been very successful at. Only because the guy doing the hiring didn't want me around his wife because he'd be afraid that his rude ass perverted behavior towards me would surface. All of this is totally unacceptable, but it happens and it did happen ALL THE TIME.
When I say being female in the music industry sucks, I'm not lying. You can be the best at your instrument and job and still be treated like a nobody and just a sexual object, and then set up to fail because those guys don't want their secrets out. That's why Kim mentions "well now you are on the news!"
Its a terrible industry, and the purpose of my visiting this site is my intention to do a cover song version of it. I know Geffen is really strict with the use of their copyrighted and licensed material, so I will probably have a really hard time accessing any sort of permission to do so, but I will still create my own version of this song. I have been waiting 30 years to do so, full of my own true experiences.
In the end, all of those women in the bathing suit issues of sports illustrated or whatever end up having sentience and souls, they aren't just objects... but the situation is more complex. Are you just a name on a list of some gross ass business dude's list of captured prey, or are you a person?
I'm swimmin, I'm swimmin, I am swimming in the vast plethora of women thrown into the sewers by these jackasses who care nothing about talent, capability, humanity, and only about their "whammy" (as is whammy bar on guitar flopping like a weiner)
@Dementedfly swimming as in the colloquial term "He's swimming in the cash!" as in there is so much of it, he will be swimming in it. Its a nice literary play between the title of the song, colloquial english slang (east coast), and the meaning of the statement, and of course, a very wonderful visual after the beautifully dictated array of unique women's names.
@Dementedfly swimming as in the colloquial term "He's swimming in the cash!" as in there is so much of it, he will be swimming in it. Its a nice literary play between the title of the song, colloquial english slang (east coast), and the meaning of the statement, and of course, a very wonderful visual after the beautifully dictated array of unique women's names.