4/6/2024 0 Comments Female voice changer voxalThe opening song on Imp Queen’s 2017 EP Magenta Agenda, “Amanda Lepore” could be viewed as a sister song to SOPHIE’s “Faceshopping.” Both celebrate the transsexual ethos of bodily modification: Imp Queen desires a material transformation as extreme as Lepore’s body, while SOPHIE asserts, undoubtedly as a critique of modern-day authenticity, that her presence is actualized through visual “shopping” (in reference to both consumerist consumption as well as Photoshopping). Tinny high-hats, staticky plastic squeaks, and syncopated snapping embellish the track, rendering it a high-pitched sound overall. A high-pitched “Thank You” periodically breaks in alongside her vocals, presumably a fictitious response by Lepore to Imp Queen’s aspirational chants. Through fellow-tgirl DJ Ariel Zetina’s production, Imp Queen’s already squeaky voice, fit only for “ America’s Sexiest Four-Year Old,” is sped up, particularly in contrast to SOPHIE’s pitch-shifting effect. “Amanda Lepore” worships the “perfect body” of the queen of silicone through a looping nasal diction, robotically repeating an all-too-familiar transsexual lust.
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