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Arigon Starr - Meet the Diva
Wacky Productions
Artist: Arigon Starr (www.arigonstarr.com)
Title: Meet the Diva
Label: Wacky Productions
Genre: Native American Pop
Okay, politics are difficult to sell as an art form unless you flash or spit on Senators or sell a load of bricks to a national art museum and call it modern. But Arigon is doing it through pop music, and it's much more accessible than rap will Ever be to whitey.
The references may be a little hard to swallow at first, but that's what you have an internet connection for. Find out just why 'Eugene Tooms Is Dead', because you're going to be whistling it for a while anyway. Same with a Lennon-like 'Spirit Guide'. Quite catchy, like something you might expect to find from a Dean Jones Disney movie in the early 70s, not making fun of the Indian religion, but rewriting the old ways into a new way of shaking yo' ass. One of the best from this 13 track cd. I mean, ya gotta love the way she opens her vowels sometimes like a happy Joanne Whirley; plus the backing voices doing their 'Whoop whoop, heya heya!'
Rock comes into 'Beautiful', around the middle of the album. Yeah, lots of the good stuff are in middle tracks. This one's straight from the style of the powerhouse dames of the 80s who believe rockin' at night is better. The guitars are never intrusive, they're just helping the beauty grow. Has to be one of the best. Wait a minute, the Greatest Hits list is filling up already. Oh well.
I'd hate to have Ms. Starr as an enemy. Some of the sounds she makes while holding notes are frightening like Dr. Frank-n-Furter, and you know she knows how to rock and read. Read? Well, lots of stories and references have gone into these slicks themes. Even - and it's got nothing to do with Indian folklore but - the 'He's coming to get you, Barbara' is a neat little touch, from the break from socially active material that is 'Monsters of the World Unite'. After all, even A&E breaks for commercials.
Really good stuff within. Pick out your own favorites, I'm heading right away to hear her follow-up cd.
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