Another all-female group, Pillow Queens come from Dublin. They also happen to be homosexual, and this fact is important to appreciate the meaning of their song Gay Girls.
In the song they sing about a girl growing up in a traditional catholic background while coming to terms with her homosexuality. It's all depicted in a sort of inner consciousness stream, with thoughts, phrases, and names mingling. It is subtle and clever.
The music opens with a melancholic and intimate tone, but evolves towards an anthemic finale. It's a great Indie song.
The video for the song gives another hint about the wider scope of the song: in it, a child finds comfort and solace from fraught family dynamics in friendship. At the same time, the video plays with the tropes of a catholic upbringing (Confirmation dresses, the Eucharist): it is defiant and impudent. And somehow, it seems an apposite commentary on the current attitudes in the Republic of Ireland: a country that, after a referendum that approved Equal Marriage, sees itself as being open and socially progressive.
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