{"id":172,"date":"2010-01-13T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:52:21","slug":"song-of-the-day-international-dateline-by-ladytron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “International Dateline” by Ladytron"},"content":{"rendered":"

How could a technosexual such as myself not eventually notice a band called Ladytron?<\/p>\n

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I do believe someone on Fembot Central mentioned them many years ago, and that’s how I first heard of them.\u00a0 When Ladytron first came out, they had a kind of “Kraftwerk” look going for them. They’ve long since abandoned that gimmick, but they’ve only gotten better as musicians.<\/p>\n

Yes, I like them for more than the inclusion of the extremely lovely Helen Marnie.<\/p>\n

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She is quite a stunner.\u00a0 Whether she’s set to stun by default, I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Her voice is simply incredible.\u00a0 It’s ultra-feminine and sexy as all get out.\u00a0 I’m a sucker for feminine voices, so that’s one more reason I like listening to Ladytron.<\/p>\n

But even beyond all those reasons, they make fucking fantastic music.\u00a0 I’ve seen the genre described as “Electro” or “Electro Clash”.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t care what people call it.\u00a0 It’s brilliant stuff.<\/p>\n

This song<\/a> in particular is one of their best.\u00a0 I think it’s about a couple breaking up at the same moment that their plane is falling out of the sky at the International Dateline.\u00a0 Kind of a dark topic.<\/p>\n

Most of their lyrics are dark.\u00a0 That’s one more thing I like about them.\u00a0 They don’t get up there and sing “Shake your booty!!” lyrics.\u00a0 I’d like to see Helen Marnie’s booty shake though.\u00a0 I had a huge crush on her a few years ago.\u00a0 I was actually going to write her into my story “36+1<\/a>” as an android duplicate made for the character “Mike”, but I never got around to it.\u00a0 I never did finish that story… it started to go somewhere I didn’t really want to take it.<\/p>\n

I wanted that story – a continuation of “H is for Heuristic<\/a>” – to be a sexy celebration of all things fembotic.\u00a0 The way the plot came out as I wrote it, Tammy was going to start feeling “jealous” about the time that Mike spent with Anya.\u00a0 And I didn’t want to spoil the fembot orgy feel of the story, so I just didn’t continue it.\u00a0 Who knows if I’ll finish it.<\/p>\n

But back to Ladytron.\u00a0 The other chick in the band has become quite a good singer too.\u00a0 She used to provide (on top of her synth parts) those “robotic” and “monotone” vocalizations over Helen Marnie’s singing, but now she can hold her own in that department.\u00a0 She’s hot too.<\/p>\n

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How could a technosexual such as myself not eventually notice a band called Ladytron? I do believe someone on Fembot Central mentioned them many years ago, and that’s how I first heard of them.\u00a0 When Ladytron first came out, they had a kind of “Kraftwerk” look going for them. They’ve long since abandoned that gimmick, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[109,558,108,110],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fembots","category-song-of-the-day","tag-00s","tag-fembots","tag-ladytron","tag-my-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}