I Like You Better When You’re Possessed By The Devil

Electric Six “Infected Girls” – It’s really no wonder that the Electric Six’s records are packed top to bottom with ridiculous, over the top lyrics. Dick Valentine’s voice is so confident and authoritative that he can get away with singing most anything, be it an excited invitation to a gay bar in a surf rock tune, a Backstreet Boys lyric presented as a solemn remembrence in a modern rock ballad, or highly detailed instructions on how to order drugs by sending a S.A.S.E. to the band’s P.O. box in a rollicking glam number. The great thing about the Electric Six is that the tunes are as good as the jokes, and the jokes nearly always contain some kind of interesting, thoughtful subtext, usually involving a self-reflexive critique of male sexuality. “Infected Girls” is a dark twist on Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls,” celebrating ladies with vd with a bumper-sticker ready slogan in the chorus, while also presenting a vague feeling of dread in its Robert Palmer-ish groove. Everything about the song signals the character’s conflicted feelings about the “infected girls,” vacillating back and forth between disrespect and admiration, and desire and fear. (Click here to buy it from Metropolis Records.)