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Spotlight: The Feminine |
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Beauty and the Rock Beast |
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by Patrick Macias |
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Inside a dark club in the Hatagaya district of Tokyo, three young girls are onstage,
dressed in matching black-and-gold china-doll dresses. One holds a bass, another a guitar. Behind them is the drummer. They look a bit nervous,
like cute little woodland creatures caught in the headlights. But that's understandable. Tonight is only the second time this band, the Feminine,
has ever played a concert.
Suddenly, the guitarist, Reina, rips into her strings. Coarse, hot sound comes blasting out. A thudding caveman beat from drummer Nao backs her up.
The music is primitive, but there's no mistaking it. This is real rock-and-roll. Dig the lyrics: "My baby does the hanky panky." |
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"Spotlight: The Feminine" by Patrick Macias has been edited for shojobeat.com;
the complete article appears in the March 2006 issue of Shojo Beat Magazine. |
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