Edie Sedgwick CD Review
Edie Sedgwick
Her Love Is Real . . . But She Is Not
(DeSoto)
Drag queen Edie Sedgwick looks nothing like the tragic, New York tart whose name he/she takes, and sounds even less like anything else.
Naming each song for a current or former member of Hollywood’s elite (Molly Ringwald, Lucy Liu, Schwarzenegger, surprisingly no Kyra Sedgwick) is only one twist on a psychotic disc ranging from Peaches and Le Tigre-inspired meth disco, the intergalactic glam rock of Bobby Conn or Weird War, and a bouilliabaise synth and vocal mix. Willfully disobedient and hopelessly campy, Her Love Is Real is more artsy than musical, but intriguing at the least. “Michael J. Fox” carries a lithe groove, “Robert Downey Jr.” protests “What about those people not doing what they could?”, but nowhere is Sedgwick as compelling as he/she is on “Arnold Schwarzenegger II”‘s technophobe rant. That Unabomber wasn’t so messed up after all.
— Kevin Keegan
Click here to download “Martin Sheen.”
