More Madonna, Less Jesus

More Two Nice Girls

Sorry, if you’re not into them, but I’m not done with Two Nice Girls. I kept watching more of their videos last night. Here’s Money, performed by the original line-up with Laurie Freelove.

The recorded version sounds so much better, especially Gretchen’s lead guitar. But I just love this performance’s simple innocence.

Gretchen writes :

We actually rode a relatively folky wave, all my punk aspirations aside. We just really loved melody and harmony and wanted to sound pretty while saying radical things. I don’t think that just telling the truth about your life should be viewed as radical, but unfortunately it often is. Why shouldn’t we be out as lesbians? What did we have to lose? We weren’t really in the music business to get rich. We wanted to create anthems for people to come out to. We wanted to put on shows where hot, single babes could hook up. We wanted to provide an unmistakably queer soundtrack for them to fall in love to. We wanted to show men what lesbians were up to. We wanted to paint a picture of a world that was bigger and brighter than the one we were living in. We wanted to say that the emperor had no clothes. We wanted to give everyone a glimpse of our record collections. We wanted to make everyone have a good time with the lesbians, which was perhaps something you’d never experienced before. Those were our dreams of being mainstream. We just wanted to be in the middle of the mix, and not in the margins.