Prostitute
Review As a singer Toyah
has been a great actress - straining for effect,
jaunty when she wanted to rock. Well, Prostitute
could be the start of something else. Dumping pop
band and format, she builds on bare rhythm,
mostly machine made and jerked around by bursts
of found sound, then layers on the vocals. Being
sung at by a whole troupe of Toyahs may seem a
fearsome prospect, but the way she
whispers,
giggles,
shrieks and belts it out you'd have to be really
scrooged up not to give her an even break.
The
Prostitute in question is tart and a wife, but
also everyone selling their lives cheap. Although
it's a theme both difficult and done before,
there's a certain extra frisson to the sexual
politics. And she must be onto something
when she can entwine the influences of Dylan and
Prince Charles in one lyric about Ghosts In The
Universe who are "hiding in the architecture
building up big plans, bang to bang
designing...it's cowdung Disneyland".
Q
Magazine, 1988
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