#Candy Says

[mlissyou]

Candy says I've come to hate my body

And all that it requires in this world

Candy says I'd like to know completely

What others so discretely talk about

[guerrilla-operator]

Candy // Candy Gonna Die

Voice in the world like a gun in your hand Choice for yourself to stand like a man Powerless outside these walls Without us you'll fucking fail Wrong impressions of expression Powerless you stand alone False claims spread infection Not for you no exceptions Spitting words of progression in the form of oppression Message clear, aim is straight Test my will I’ll seal your fate

[agirlnamedbone]

y'all gotta stop just sayin lou reed was gay. lou reed was a T R A N S D Y K E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[voidingintotheshout]

“Candy’s life was tragically cut short by cancer before the age of 30, but—a Superstar to the end—took one final opportunity to pose for glamor shots on her deathbed.”

[uomminecraftsociety]

Candy Says - The Velvet Underground

I realise in hindsight that this would have been the perfect uomcsp to have released yesterday but I wasn't thinking so I apologise. This may have been a bit rushed as a consequence but Happy (belated) Trans Day of Visibility.

It is hard to come up with the words to describe people sometimes. For me the best word to describe the Velvet Underground is that they were "underground", hence I am taking a quote from their kids version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; "lyrically, it explored social and sexual deviance, drugs, violence, and despair." Essentially, the perfect combination to add to a sad playlist. I know too few Velvet tracks to properly pick out the saddest of the lot but here are some good examples.

Sunday Morning is the first track of the Velvet's first album. I am not an early riser, I typically get up in the afternoon when possible but every Sunday where I do wake up in the morning, I play the track, though that is arguably the wrong way around. While it has an innocent sound to it from its musical box style sound, it discusses staying up all night into the early hours of Sunday morning. In it, the speaker discusses their anxieties and regrets of what they did and how they feel like they are wasting time, resulting in the innocent sound being more hollow.

After Hours is quite a similar in nature to Sunday Morning, with the song about a person spending their nights in clubs but finding themselves alone after all of it. The song was made with a child like innocence with the singing handled by Moe Tucker, the drummer. The cute vibes of the song contradict the loneliness discussed in the song.

I'm Waiting for the Man is standing on the corner waiting for the drug dealer. It isn't sad in the conventional sense but considering that the heroin addict is "lookin' for a dear, dear friend", shows that they are so desperate for heroin that the dealer looks like a friend, even though the dealer doesn't care for them.

Candy Says however has come out on top for the Velvet's saddest track. The Candy in the track's title is about Candy Darling, a transgender actress they knew. The song generally was about being depressed, though the opening itself establishes this is from dysphoria as "Candy says 'I've come to hate my body'".

[purplesweetpotatoes]

Tonight's playlist

[stephaniegunnz]

MARTIN GORE - CANDY SAYS

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[chronivore]

[blueelectricroom]

Sometimes I get the impression that Lou Reed actually had no idea what Candy, Stephanie, Lisa, Holly, Jackie, Jenny, or Sister Ray actually said. First, he'd have to have been be listening, and then he'd have to possess some capacity to care what anyone (other than himself ) had to say. Granted, he did take careful note of what the colored girls were saying, but how complex is "doot, de doot, doot doot de doot” anyway?

[nicklloydnow]

“Of course by then I'd started drinking and that almost finished me off. I was a born alcoholic. Luckily I met someone. Sheer blind luck. He got me into AA. I had trouble with the God thing. A lot of people do. And then I woke up one night in the middle of the night and I was lying there and I thought: If there is no higher power then I'm it. And that just scared the shit out of me. There is no God and I am she. So I began to really work on that. I'm still working on it. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be. But I've made some progress. I was mad at him for screwing me up the way he did but maybe he's not as perfect as people like to think. He's got a lot on his plate and he has to do it all himself. No help.

Do you believe in God?

The truth?

Sure.

I dont know who God is or what he is. But I dont believe all this stuff got here by itself. Including me. Maybe everything evolves just like they say it does. But if you sound it to its source you have to come ultimately to an intention.

Sound it to its source?

You like that? Pascal. About a year after this I woke up again and it was like I had heard this voice in my sleep and I could still hear the echo of it and it said: If something did not love you you would not be here. And I said okay. That's it. Plain enough. Maybe it doesnt sound like much. But it was to me. So I do like the program says, Bobby. One day at a time. I need to spend more time with women and it's difficult. They feel threatened. Or we get to be friends and then I tell them and you can feel the distance settle in. Rare exceptions. Very rare. I'm trying to get Clara to come down here. To go to school here. You can guess who's against that. I've been reading about the sexual dimorphism in the brain. It may be more adaptable than people think. It may be that you can change it. You know where this is going because we talked about it. I want to have a female soul. I want the female soul to contain me. That's what I want and that's all I want. I thought that it might be always out of my reach but now I've started to have faith. That's what I pray for when I pray. To be let in the door. To be a member of the feminine. It doesnt really have anything to do with sex. With having sex. And all the rest is just fluff.” - Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Passenger’ (2022)

[cosima-nova]

💜

photos of candy darling, a warhol superstar and trans woman. darling was in various warhol works and was a muse of the velvet underground

[cryptocism]

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

[mr-paxton]

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