I Am A Poseur

Punk rock pioneers X-Ray Spex with Poly Strene do it again,, this time getting at the heart of matters, with I Am A Poseur.



I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare

Exhibition is the name
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow

My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Sensationalism for the feed
Caricatures are what you breed

Anti-art was the start
Establishments like a laugh
Yes we're very entertaining
Overtones can be betraying

Identity

X-Ray Spex and Poly Styrene in 1977, punk forebears, singing Identity.



Identity is the crisis can't you see
Identity identity

When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the t.v. Screen
Do you see yourself in the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream

When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read about it

Day the World Turned Day-Glo

Pimping this slide show homage to the Women of 1970s punk rock is the X-Ray Spex and Poly Styrene belting out their smash—Day the World Turned Day-Glo (1978).



I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
Then fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow

And watched the world turn
Day-glo you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know

I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
Then peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road

I drove my polypropolene car
On wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To have a rubber bun

The x-rays were penetrating
Through the latex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
Fell from the rayon trees