The Triumphantly Warped Return of Grace Jones
While it’s my sincere hope that the wondrous Coilhouse Gushfest: Getting to Know You continues unabated, I can’t keep sitting on my hands with this one. Grace Jones has just released a new video for “Corporate Cannibal”, the first single off her forthcoming album, Hurricane (which features collaboration with Tricky, Brian Eno, and others). May Day is more heart-stoppingly badass than ever before:
Is she not fierce?! Like some creepy UrSkek, come to inform us of the Great Conjunction. And the lyrics… checkit, they’re all Free and Accepted n’ shiz:
Employer of the year
Grandmaster of fear
My blood flows satanical
Mechanical, masonical
And chemical… habitual
Jones performing at Meltdown in London last month.
Rawr. As previously mentioned on CH, Ms. Jones is my choice for It Girl of the 80s. Hell, let’s make her It Girl for ’08, as well. She’s sixty, she’s sexy, she’s scary as hell, and we should all bow before her fabulousness.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
As impressive as ever, that miss Jones. The suit, the gloves, the everything. It’s a sort of unholy blend of the UrkSeks and the Dadaists, yes!!
July 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
She is the only person I would want to like BE for a little while. Just to see what it feels like to be GRACE motherfucking JONES. I want this album right now. I play Nightclubbing all of the time because it rules.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I read a great piece on how the original artist constructed the cover of Island Life – clearly a pose that Jones (not to mention most humans) couldn’t actually perform – and it was interesting to see the labor-intensive stitching together of many photos that was necessary in the pre-Photoshop days.
linky
July 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Grace Jones is a time machine.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
D, I love that piece but lost track of it, thanks for the linky.
B.R. have you seen these old interview clips? Oh my fucking gawd:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
MOAR!
July 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Damn. She had me at “pleased to have you on my plate.” UNH.
*Ahem.* That is all.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
[…] Coilhouse speaks and informs this writer that the above video is a new video release for Grace Jones’ “Corporate Cannibal.” (the first single off her forthcoming album, Hurricane (which features collaboration with Tricky, Brian Eno, and others) […]
July 10th, 2008 at 4:16 am
simply, thank-you.
July 10th, 2008 at 10:32 am
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July 10th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Holy shit. This sounds awesome.
I like her Pretenders cover.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Grace Jones continues to own my soul. There’s only two other women who owns my soul besides her and that’s Siouxsie Sioux and Skin from Skunk Anansie.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
well, at least now i feel a lot better about my giant crush on her.
July 11th, 2008 at 12:22 am
I find myself watching the Corporate Cannibal video over, and over, and over again… it’s just so dark, so fluid, so unsettling. The video… Chris Cunningham meets Albert Watson! I love the way she snarls at the end, and puts an “rrrrr” sound at the end of Cannibal. ARGH – HOT!
Did some research and learned that the director is the talented Nick Hooker, and it looks like this kind of manipulation is his signature style. He did has some other videos, which I will now watch.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
In honor of this amazing post I will go watch Conan The Destroyer and happily watch her not only be a bad ass but look amazingly…fit. :D