“Now I’m not trying to be flippant here, or irreverent or exploitive [sic] or sarcastic or ironic or postmodern, and this is not a parody. Get it? Got it? Good.”
These words come from “Folk Song,” the last track on The Power of Pussy. While it’s tempting to write Bongwater off as a joke band, there is truth to those lyrics. The nine-minute “Folk Song” skewers pretty much everything: politics, religion, society sex and pop culture, but in such a confessional, sincere way that calling it a parody would be missing the point. That’s not to say it isn’t funny; the whole album is fucking hilarious, as well as being totally arty, trippy and bizarre.
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