WTF?! I mean... seriously! Somebody tell me this isn't a parody, because that would just be even more funny.
said Mooncity on April 16, 2007 7:13 PM.
I had to know...and found this writeup c/o theGarance:
Because I’m too much of a reporter at heart to let even goofy YouTube videos stay a mystery, and because the Sandy Belle video below seemed too off kilter to be real, I had to dig a little further. Apparently, it comes via a New York City-based sketch comedy troupe, The Dregs, and was posted to YouTube by director “MittyMoo,” whose other videos feature campy drag queens. Sandy Belle, meanwhile, appears to be a stage name used by a 26-year old New Yorker, who may or may not be a transsexual, and who is using a name that comes from the 1981-83 early Japanese anime series Hello! Sandybell. She even has the same hairstyle as the anime character. Given that the other people in The Dreg’s MySpace network include Lady Miss Kier, who I first caught performing with Deee-Lite at the bandstand in Thompkins Square Park during Wigstock in, like, 1989 or ‘90 or something, as well as the flamboyant Justin Bond, who IRRC was also in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, I’m guessing someone first performed this number in a small gay nightclub somewhere in Manhattan, before sending it out to travel virally throughout the ether.
It would have been an even better video if it were authentically Southern, but it’s just authentically American. Sorry.
UPDATE: OK, she’s not a transsexual. The singer is The Dreg’s Sandra Bauleo, a model and comedian. You can see her head-shot over at R & L Model Management. Also: Score one for GFR’s cultural instincts. Sandra and the gang will be performing this Tuesday, April 17, as part of the PuPu Platter act at Manhattan gay nightclub Boysroom, on Avenue A and 12th Street, according to My Comrade, The Revolutionary Gay Magazine, which calls the song a “music video spoof.”
said El Queso Grande on April 16, 2007 8:57 PM.
Note to self: Put big stars around the "more here" link.
WTF?! I mean... seriously! Somebody tell me this isn't a parody, because that would just be even more funny.
I had to know...and found this writeup c/o theGarance:
Because I’m too much of a reporter at heart to let even goofy YouTube videos stay a mystery, and because the Sandy Belle video below seemed too off kilter to be real, I had to dig a little further. Apparently, it comes via a New York City-based sketch comedy troupe, The Dregs, and was posted to YouTube by director “MittyMoo,” whose other videos feature campy drag queens. Sandy Belle, meanwhile, appears to be a stage name used by a 26-year old New Yorker, who may or may not be a transsexual, and who is using a name that comes from the 1981-83 early Japanese anime series Hello! Sandybell. She even has the same hairstyle as the anime character. Given that the other people in The Dreg’s MySpace network include Lady Miss Kier, who I first caught performing with Deee-Lite at the bandstand in Thompkins Square Park during Wigstock in, like, 1989 or ‘90 or something, as well as the flamboyant Justin Bond, who IRRC was also in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus, I’m guessing someone first performed this number in a small gay nightclub somewhere in Manhattan, before sending it out to travel virally throughout the ether.
It would have been an even better video if it were authentically Southern, but it’s just authentically American. Sorry.
UPDATE: OK, she’s not a transsexual. The singer is The Dreg’s Sandra Bauleo, a model and comedian. You can see her head-shot over at R & L Model Management. Also: Score one for GFR’s cultural instincts. Sandra and the gang will be performing this Tuesday, April 17, as part of the PuPu Platter act at Manhattan gay nightclub Boysroom, on Avenue A and 12th Street, according to My Comrade, The Revolutionary Gay Magazine, which calls the song a “music video spoof.”
Note to self: Put big stars around the "more here" link.