David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W. Bullock

Author:Darryl W. Bullock [BULLOCK, DARRYL W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC064000, MUS020000, SOC022000, SOC052000
ISBN: 9781468316254
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

The company had worked hard to break Ferron via radio, but although she picked up plenty of airplay in California, it did not translate into sales, and the break with Warner Bros. would have massive repercussions. As well as holding the rights to Still Riot, the company had also taken over ownership of her previous two albums (which they reissued in remixed form). ‘Warner Bros. came along with a deal that broke me at the knees. I ended up losing the rights to my work. I don’t think they did anything really awful on purpose. They just do what corporations do: they eat small things. They eat minnows, and for a minute, I was a minnow.’27

It took her several years to recover from the experience. Although she continued to perform and record, Ferron also began to teach (at the non-profit Institute for Musical Arts) and to write poetry. In 2008 she released Boulder, an album of songs produced by long-time fan turned musical collaborator Bitch, with guest appearances by Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls and others. Queer writer, producer and performer Bitch (originally of the duo Bitch and Animal), who became friends with Ferron when they met on the Women’s Music circuit, also produced Ferron’s 2013 album Lighten-ing and the accompanying hour-long documentary film Thunder. Bitch (born Karen Mould in 1973), who more recently has been working under the name Beach, had toured with DiFranco, the Grammy Award-winning folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (born in Buffalo, New York in 1970). DiFranco released her albums through her own independent label, Righteous Babe, built a devoted following through constant touring and saw the return when nine of her albums made the Billboard Top 50. Although for most of her career she self-identified as bisexual, since giving birth to her daughter in 2007 (and subsequently marrying her partner, music producer Mike Napolitano) she prefers not to talk about her sexuality in such fixed terms. ‘I think I was in my early twenties when I was having relationships with women. I’m in my early forties now. I’ve done a lot more talking about it, funnily enough, than doing it,’ she told interviewer Kathleen Bradbury in 2012.28 She’s certainly not the first artist to discover that sexuality can indeed be fluid.

‘One of the things that I’ve always prided myself on is in making public mistakes and being accessible,’ says Alix Dobkin. ‘It’s more honest; it resonates. When songwriters ask me to tell them about how to write songs I say that “if you want me to be interested in your song then send me something only you could have written”. I don’t want to hear any convention, I don’t want to be able to sing along with it the first couple of times I hear it, I’m not interested in that. It has to be original, and if you’re really honest then it will be original, because everybody is original. If somebody writes from their own true spirit, from their true soul then it’s going to be original.

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