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Will excerpt from Leslie Singer's review of the "Telepathy" video when the song comes up today or tomorrow on the People's Pop Poll for 1987, so printing the entire review here.
Deborah Allen--"Telepathy": Saw this at Macy's. Six screens of a haggardly pseudo-fashionable junkie-looking white ex-model dancing with a black man and singing slow funk. Her voice sounds almost black, almost Kim Carnes circa "Bette Davis Eyes." Towards the end of the song weird chord changes take place reminiscent of the Residents. Further listenings at home reveal more. A wheezing rhythmic synth adding roughness and noise plus such great subliminal s&m lines as "I know you like the back of my hand" place this record in the top ten of any dominatrix's record chart. Deborah Allen's day beats Sonic Youth's year and Pussy Galore's fiscal quarter. Real s&m versus the grade B/schlock movie version of s&m contained on "Evol" and "Right Now."More of Leslie's early work here:
--Leslie Singer review of Deborah Allen "Telepathy" video, Why Music Socks #3, late 1987.
http://www.haltapes.com/girls-on-fire.html
