PJ hits you in the face.

In honor of Callie's blog, where she showed this artist no love on her list of rockingest females.(I'm sure this was a minor oversite Cal, I have a feeling you love her already.), I'm writing one about this artist.



That't's right this one is about PJ Harvey. For all you peeps who don't know her
She's the awkwardly pretty, vicious, British chameleon who's been putting out records for about a decade or so now.(I believe she's in her late 30's now.) From Glam, to electronica, to fragile brokenness, to angry soul exposing songs, PJ has created a career reminiscent of 70's Bowie where she has moved so fast you can never catch up to what she will do next and constantly reinvented herself and the music around her.
Now I do this because it seems that as Polly Jean has gotten older, so has her fanbase, without any new youths boosting her up. Look at the myspaces of women across ze world, and who do you see as female "rock" idols in the music section? Jenny Lewis. Neko Case. Karen O. Ani Defranco. Peaches. and GASP! Ashlee Simpson.

So lets discuss some of these other "rockers."
Lets go in random order.

Peaches was good like 80 yrs ago before she ever realized she would make a second or a third album. To quote Silky Johnson on Chapelle Show "Bombed out and depleated like Afghanistan." There are only SOOO many sex songs you can do. I'm still waiting for her to do her next album with tha same bombed out 2002(last date she was actually good) low ebb electro beats and song titles like The Dirty Sanchez, I'm the Boss(Do the Tony Danza), and Chili Dogs at the State Fair. She's no PJ. You want a PJ sex song. here u go.


Karen O. is still a great singer, despite one of the more disappointing sophomore albums in recent memory. If nothing else her sin is causing far too many wannabe broads to dress like her.(think 1984 Madonna.) I'll give her another chance, but even then she will never record something as great as icy and mean as this no matter how hard she's been trying.

Neko Case. Great Singer. Hot. But, lets face it there is no danger in her songs. No adventure. What REALLY seperates Neko from Rosanna Cash, Aimee Mann, or even Shawn Colvin? Not that much. She's better than them, but she's also not PJ. You wanna see a soulful bluesy singer, see it here.



Ashlee Simpson=Hot. Good TV actress. Does that equal singer or rock star. I'm sorry it doesnt. Never be close to PJ. So no need for a video.

Jenny Lewis. Listen, I'm arguably the biggest J.Lew mark this side of California, considering I've seen the Wizard like 20 times. And her tunes are cutesy in that folksy Americana way you have to appreciate. But, PJ will stomp her back into modern fucking times all over her with leather boots.


Ani Defranco is and I quote "the anti-christ." She makes Good Charlotte and Bright Eyes look like Jesus and Moses respectively. Ani Here's what really pisses me off. She and PJ are like the same age, yet girls my age and younger still are finding out about her. Why? It seems as if most broads who say PJ is great are like 30 something now, yet teen broads still love that "I'm not a pretty girl" garbage. PJ isn't pretty, she just stands up and makes herself a larger than life character so you want to fuck her. And just so I don't get shit about needing a calendar by putting up only old PJ vids, here's a pretty new one that proves her ferocity seems even stronger nowadays.


The proof's in the vids. So here's your chance youths, rock out with PJ make your life better. Now if only we could get some younger peeps into some Stereolab records, we can rock out and then have a brilliant time dancing.