CSS, "City Grrrl" Music Video
Brazilian electro punks CSS are party professionals whose songs are all intoxicating rave-ready mash-ups of strobe lights, glow sticks, and glitter. And while they have yet to top anthems like “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” and “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above,” the band still knows how to have a good time. In their latest video, frontwoman and lead partier Lovefoxxx hits the streets of New York in a tale of small-town frustration/big-city liberation. (The album is called La Liberación, after all.) After a quick wardrobe adjustment and bathroom dye job, she stomps around the city like she owns it, flashing outfit changes, whipping her hair, and showing off some pretty sweet dance moves. And if her main frustration with the small-town life was that people thought pink hair and black lipstick were too crazy, then a move to any big city would do. But New York is a good choice, because there, no matter how weird you were in your hometown, you can always find someone weirder than you.
Blanca Méndez writes about music sometimes.
YELLOW SWEATER WITH THE CAT MASK: WANT. Who makes that? I also saw it here: http://turnedout.tv/streetstyle/5793
@haley I came in just to say this. I NEED THAT SWEATER! Is it batman? I don't care, I just want it.
@haley Oh wait I found it. http://www.openingceremony.us/products.asp?menuid=2&catid=21&productid=48516
It's $440.
Nevermind. I will make my own knockoff.
@teebs Make me one too please!! I can pay in emoticons
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Ooh! I keep hearing them on Pandora and they're fantastic! I wish I could watch this video at work.
Love the "Cannibal Holocaust" theme at the beginning!
That's totally what happens to me every time I take the bus.
Please don't go back to that Port Authority bathroom a third time!
@applestoapples I was like, "Oh, is she dying her hair in the Port Authority bathroom? That is by far the least gross thing that has ever happened in that bathroom." DON'T GO BACK THERE, LOVEFOXXX, YOU'RE TOO CUTE FOR A STAPH INFECTION.
All I have to say is LOVEFOXXX WHY AREN'T YOU DATING MEEEE
Cansei de Ser Sexy! We talked about them when I was taking Portuguese in college. (Anybody else like to chronically learn and forget languages? Spanish, Portuguese, German, Middle Egyptian…)
@figwiggin Spanish, Latin, French, Swedish, Portuguese, German… RIGHT THERE WITH YA SISTER.
@liznieve YES. French, Spanish, German, Medieval Welsh, Korean. All forgotten.
I am really regretting missing their recent show in my city. Lovefoxxx is so fiiiine <3
Ok, why isn't this on the CD of music blaring during my early morning kickboxing class? So much more awesome than KATY PERRY FOR THE ELEVENTY SIX BILLIONTH TIME.
They earned a spot in my heart years ago with the Ramones/Sleater-Kinney cover/mashup "I wanna be your JLo". The song is great, and the wink to L7 in the beginning of the vid makes me happy.
This made my day! And it was a high-quality thing to post on Facebook for my CSS-loving friend whose birthday it is.
One time I saw CSS and Lovefoxxx was wearing a unitard and then in the middle of Alala she took it off and underneath was ANOTHER UNITARD. And it was the best thing that ever happened to me the end.
Love the antiglamour of blow drying your pits after a long bus ride