Yes! The phone has finally rung.
"Your Body Is A Weapon" was released in October last year and I've been aware of it but I lacked internet access so I haven't been able to let my feelings about said single loose on the interweb.
Undeniably catchy lyrics - check
Quirky music video - check
The Wombats just make me the happiest girl in town - check
Look, it's nothing groundbreaking. It's very Wombats-esque but that's my favourite thing about them. Catchy, mixed with some more catchy and a little pinch of extra catchy. There's no news of an album release just yet, but I wait with baited breath - and updates should obviously be expected.
There is a little something extra that I want to add though which was the main reason for this post. I found this article about "Your Body Is Weapon"
I do understand that this is an opinion piece, and I am more than happy to accept that the writer is allowed to have her own opinion, but alas I do have my own opinion on the matter and in my opinion her opinion is kind of shit. This whole article is a massive leap. There's a giant gap between a pop song about unrequited love to being a song about a crazy stalker urging other crazy stalkers to further their stalking careers. If we had to be this over critical about every boy-really-wants-out-of-his-league-beautiful-girl, then the music industry would be in dire straits. Lyrics are obviously subjective, each person interprets a song in their own way which is one of the magical things about music but honestly to jump straight into the every man is a stalker seems like a very bleak outlook on life. You could pretty much pick lyrics from any song and quote them through a very narrow feminist lens and paint every song ever written in a way that shovels your agenda down people's throats. This song is a far from being a "plaintive cry", "immediately objectifying" and "co-opting the language of domestic violence to garner sympathy for a stalker".
So yeah, fuck that.
Love Always,
Nicole
