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Internets, through a complex set of links and recs that I can't recreate now, I was led to Dixon's Girl, an X-Men: First Class fanvid by marina00 (I think? That's who uploaded this copy to Youtube).
"Oooh!" I said. "That Dessa song! I love that song!"
Have I told you guys how much I love Dessa? I don't think I have. Dessa is an awesome indie musician lady with whipsmart lyrics and a beautiful voice she wraps around complex rhythms. "Alibi" is a work of genius, go listen to it.
Dixon's Girls is about people being an ass to a woman they see as attached to a dude of way more significance ("everybody knew you as the wife of a famous man/everybody who knew said there goes Dixon's girl again") but Dessa knows better! Dessa knows the lady has worth in her own right! "But you could hold a little liquor/you could hold a conversation/you could hold your own mic," she sings, and promises the lady "free drinks and bad advice" when everyone else wants to know if "they can get you for a little less". Dessa's money is on Dixon's girl.
This makes it a totally perfect song for this vid about the ladies of X-Men: First Class, who get royally shafted by the narrative, which seems to think they are only interesting because of the men in their lives. BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY AWESOME.
Emma Frost y'all. Emma Frost, Mystique, and Angel. Don't you even.
OH one vid is never enough. Let's have more!
How about some action ladies?
I Enjoy Being A Girl, by AbsoluteDestiny
How about some comedy ladies?
OK, by thingswithwings.
Heck, how about all the ladies? GO LADIES GO.
What About Everything, by fizzyblogic
(Link in case embedding didn't work, she said nervously)
And bonus, the video I have been playing over and over as I work on Secret Secret Shush Shush* today, Starships, by Bironic. You have to click the link to get there, but anyone who loves space stories will love it.
*Not its real title.
"Oooh!" I said. "That Dessa song! I love that song!"
Have I told you guys how much I love Dessa? I don't think I have. Dessa is an awesome indie musician lady with whipsmart lyrics and a beautiful voice she wraps around complex rhythms. "Alibi" is a work of genius, go listen to it.
Dixon's Girls is about people being an ass to a woman they see as attached to a dude of way more significance ("everybody knew you as the wife of a famous man/everybody who knew said there goes Dixon's girl again") but Dessa knows better! Dessa knows the lady has worth in her own right! "But you could hold a little liquor/you could hold a conversation/you could hold your own mic," she sings, and promises the lady "free drinks and bad advice" when everyone else wants to know if "they can get you for a little less". Dessa's money is on Dixon's girl.
This makes it a totally perfect song for this vid about the ladies of X-Men: First Class, who get royally shafted by the narrative, which seems to think they are only interesting because of the men in their lives. BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY AWESOME.
Emma Frost y'all. Emma Frost, Mystique, and Angel. Don't you even.
OH one vid is never enough. Let's have more!
How about some action ladies?
I Enjoy Being A Girl, by AbsoluteDestiny
How about some comedy ladies?
OK, by thingswithwings.
Heck, how about all the ladies? GO LADIES GO.
What About Everything, by fizzyblogic
(Link in case embedding didn't work, she said nervously)
And bonus, the video I have been playing over and over as I work on Secret Secret Shush Shush* today, Starships, by Bironic. You have to click the link to get there, but anyone who loves space stories will love it.
*Not its real title.
