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...Scissor Sisters are an American band, but their self-titled debut album came out in Europe almost six months before its arrival in the U.S. Why the delay? You get the feeling that the Scissor Sisters' record company, Universal, was a little nervous about how audiences Stateside might react to these five flamboyant New Yorkers. Never mind that the band's name was inspired by a lesbian sexual position or that lead singer Jake Shears used to perform in drag shows going by a name in excruciatingly bad taste. The Scissor Sisters are the first band in the history...
...group to emerge in recent memory, largely because they understand the genre so well. Pop music--where the same three chords have been swapping clothes for the past 50 years--is the nexus of the avant-garde and the conventional, and on their debut, out (finally) July 27, the Scissor Sisters--Shears, Babydaddy, Ana Matronic, Paddy Boom and Del Marquis--walk the line with Madonna-like confidence. Take Your Mama, their first single, is about getting Mom drunk on cheap champagne so you can come out of the closet to her while going clubbing with friends. Yet as Shears vaults...
...entire first half of Scissor Sisters is nearly flawless, and impressively diverse too. There's an exuberant dance cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb that sounds like New Order fronted by Andy Gibb. Tits on the Radio is a disco-funk rant about the cultural sterilization of New York City. What keeps the whole thing from turning into an orgy of deja vu is Shears. As he struts his way through the material, he radiates a completely original kind of magnetism. He's sexual, commanding and totally goofy--like a man who can't believe his hairbrush and mirror...
...Take Your Mama" SCISSOR SISTERS...
...that Elton John would kill to have written and a giddy retro chorus--"Gonna take your mama out all night/Yeah we'll show her what it's all about." Even mildly inquisitive Queer Eye viewers could imagine it was just another great party anthem. For the sake of the Scissor Sisters' bank accounts, long live obliviousness...