nessus.UUCP@mit-eddie.UUCP (09/13/86)
John Rossi's observations on the sexual imagery in the song "The Dreaming", which is in addition to the political message, cannot be totally discounted. After all, in the video Kate and her fellow dancers do masterbate a laser beam, and when she sings "pull of the Bush", her fellow dancers do pull on her. On the other hand, his accusation that Kate's depiction of the destruction of the Aborigine culture is inaccurate is unsupportable. Just like the native American cultures in the United States and most "primitive" cultures throughout the world, the Aborignal culture in Australia is in serious peril. Kate is not just singing off of the top of her head; she lived in Australia for a year. Furthermore, Rolf Harris, who is well-known to be quite familiar with Aborigine culture, helped with the song. "See the light ram through the gaps in the land" Doug
rossi@NUSC.ARPA ("ROSSI J.A.") (09/13/86)
I't shocks me, somewhat that a Kate tune can be interpreted as having more than a vague symbolic meaning. You mean, TD is really about Australia and 'The Bush' as opposed to Kate's pubic area which, largely, remains un- exposed. I guess my only comment about this is that English pop stars of Irish extraction should get the complete facts before declaring the demise of a beautiful race of people. Even PG had the good sense to do a political (BIKO) tune with some factual historical content. At least the Ausatralians didn't buy into the 'total Reservation trip'. You see, as a self proclaimed expert sexual symbolism expert (and professional Psychologist), I was under the impression that TD was a song about Kate's latent exhibitionist tendencies wherupon in a dream she 'bangs a 7 foot tall marsupial' and exposes her pubic region to some very black men hiding behind trees who find her irrestable 'and can't avoid the pull of the bush'. Well, I guess we all can have remote fantasies. Pardon the sexual implicdations of the preceeding paragraph if your offended. Those of you who are of the old school Catholic faith can redeem yourselves by saying a good act of contrition which, I believe, is worth about 100 or so ejaculations (sic). John ------