Glass Candy at Rotture 11/20/09
The diehard fans trickled in first, and, at first, it felt like it was going to be a typical Glass Candy show. “Is that a guy or a girl? I’m going to go hit on her,” my friend Matt said as he walked over to a 6-foot beauty. And, like most Glass Candy shows, one felt like they were in that Blur song “Boys and Girls” with the lyrics:
“Girls who are boys/who like boys to be girls/who do boys like they're girls/ who do girls like they're boys”
In other words, it was confusing. Genders and sexualities weren’t exactly straight and narrow, and that’s exactly how we liked it. After all, Glass Candy’s music is a modern blend of new-wave/ italo-disco, and disco music sprung from the gay culture in the 1970’s. The discotheque was a safe haven for blacks and gays, and with this new wave of it, the sentiment is the same, boys who are girls and girls who are boys, and those of us that are girls who are girls but just want to dance, this was our place.
