#cristina monet-palaci

[drakehavenelite]

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Artist: Cristina

Title: Disco Clone

Album: Disco Clone Single

Played on: Tue Nov 26 2024 09:37:40 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

#Cristina #Female Fronted #BEWARE THE SIREN

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day: totally unique post-punk No Wave chanteuse Cristina (Cristina Monet Palaci, 17 January 1956 – 1 April 2020) who made precisely two barbed, weird and distinctive albums - released by the cutting edge Ze label - that flopped commercially and then retired from music. Cristina’s trademark is setting scathing observations to perky music, and she mostly sings and writes within the persona of a jaded party girl or gold digger (a tradition that dates to Mae West and Eartha Kitt). Self-titled debut Cristina (1980) (reissued in 2004 as Doll in the Box) is her mutant disco album. Lushly produced by Kid Creole, it’s campy fun with Latin rhythm in its hips (if you like cowbell, this is the album for you!), but I prefer the 1984 follow-up, the tougher, darker and more cutting New Wave pop of Sleep It Off. Cristina’s venomous, spikily funny lyrics work as wry poetry already, but then she enunciates them in an alienated, deadpan can't-be-bothered snarl (she has “resting bitch voice”, occasionally punctuated with a Johnny Rotten sneer). Here’s a sampling of her wit and wisdom: “My life is in a turmoil / My thighs are black and blue / My sheets are stained, so is my brain / What's a girl to do?” from "What’s A Girl to Do?" is as lacerating as anything found on Lydia Lunch’s 1980 magnum opus Queen of Siam. “Don't tell me that I'm frigid / Don't try to make me think / I'll do just fine without you / Don’t mutilate my mink” from her punk masterpiece “Don’t Mutilate My Mink”. (In their obit, The Guardian describes it as sounding like Audrey Hepburn fronting the Sex Pistols). Like many abrasive early eighties New York punk funk musicians (see also: James Chance of The Contortions), she may initially work best in small doses and for many may be an acquired taste. But think of Cristina as analogous to Campari – once you acquire that taste, you wondered how you ever lived without it. Portrait by Jean-Paul Goude.

[starrystillness]

Very sad to hear of Cristina's death. Annie Nightingale introduced me to Cristina via her request show in the early '90s and I remember it being a total nightmare to track down Cristina’s records in the pre-internet years. I have long considered "You Rented a Space" to be my favourite song of all time. Don't know why, I just like the way it makes me feel. Sleep well, Cristina

[tapill]

(via Cristina, Cult Downtown New York Singer, Dies at 64 - The New York Times)

“Cristina, a cult singer who brought avant-garde sensibilities to New York’s dance-music nightlife at the turn of the 1980s, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 64.

Her daughter, Lucinda Zilkha Francis, said she had been suffering from several autoimmune disorders, including relapsing polychondritis, for approximately two decades. On Friday, her family learned she had tested positive for the coronavirus.

In the fertile anything-goes downtown New York of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cristina cut a unique figure — a hyperliterary, well-to-do, seen-it-all performer who taunted club music culture with songs that could be read as wry parody or progressive updates.”

[grupaok]

Cristina, Sleep It Off, 1984 (designed by Jean-Paul Goude, soon to deploy the same strategy for Grace Jones’s Slave to the Rhythm).

RIP Cristina Monet-Palaci and fuck COVID-19.

[opsena]

Sad and shocked to find out about Cristina’s passing, but unfortunately not surprised... She was battling an illness for a very long time and the way the media is reporting on her death is ghastly and disrespectful to say the least.

Farewell, queen 🕊

Cristina Monet Palaci Zilkha

January 2, 1959 – April 1, 2020

[postpunkindustrial]

RIP No Wave/Dance Punk Diva Cristina. 

Stupid Fucking Virus

[portinfinite]

RIP Cristina (Cristina Monet-Palaci) (January 2, 1959 – March 31, 2020) -- A hugely influential + bright post-punkpop singer, and personal favorite. Rest in peace 💔 #cristina #cristinamonetpalaci #ripcristina #sleepitoff #dollinthebox #

[drakehavenelite]

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Artist: Cristina

Title: Quicksand Lovers

Album: Sleep It Off

Played on: Wed Nov 20 2024 11:23:58 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

#Cristina #Female Fronted #BEWARE THE SIREN

[thecapitalofkaitland]

happy holidays🌵

from my favorite christmas album

[V/A, “A Christmas Record,” ZE Records, 1981]

[tapill]

(via kenneth in the (212): Song of the Day: 'Ticket to the Tropics' by Cristina)

[mermaidsighed]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dp34Z9RLMI)

Cristina - Ticket to the Tropics (1984)

[stubbadubb]

Cristina - "Things Fall Apart"

This eccentric holiday tune doesn't get enough love.