On découvre et on valide The Menstrual Cramps avec le single Body Politics extrait de leur ep Antagonistic
Body Politics de The menstrual Cramps, un son punk et vindicatif
Fondée dans une chambre à Bristol en 2016, The Menstrual Cramps (Emilia Elfrida, Cooper Rose, Robyn Jenner et AJ Murdoch) n’a depuis pas de répit, pas de trêves. Elles dénoncent la condition des femmes, les injonctions et le reste à coup de riffs nous demandant gentiment de défoncer le patriarcat à coup de pelle.
Et c’est le cas avec le très mélodique punk, « Body Politics ». Les paroles de la chanson se plongent dans la nature restrictive des normes et des attentes de la société entourant l’identité de genre. Le refrain répété de « Body politics, Bollox to the normative, Gender is performative » balance un regard critique sur la manière dont le genre est construit. Ca s’écoute fort et le poing levé.
Lyrics ;
Body politics
Bollox to the normative
Body politics
Gender is performative
Body politics x2
I didn’t choose my gender
It was placed on me
Perhaps forced on us by society
A sense in all of us
Lived experience
That can mean something
That can mean nothing
How do you define
what a woman is?
How is life any
Different than Otherness
A sense in all of us
That can mean something
That can mean nothing
Intersection
Inner Connections
Just let people live
Constructs wrapped
Tight like a boa
Lower
Body politics
Bollox to the normative
Body politics
Gender is performative
Body politics x2
I didn’t choose my gender
It was placed on me
Perhaps forced on us by society
A sense in all of us
Lived experience
That can mean something
That can mean nothing
How do you define
what a man is
How is life any
Different than Otherness
A sense in all of us
That can mean something
That can mean nothing
Intersection
Inner Connections
Just let people live
Constructs wrapped
Tight like a boa
Lower
Body politics
Bollox to the normative
Body politics
Gender is performative
Body politics
Crisps for breakfast
Break the rules
Binary oppositions
Are the patriarchal tools
X3
At the end of the day
what’s in your pants doesn’t define you
Body politics
Bollox to the normative
Body politics
Gender is performative
Body politics
