Originality Corner
Teengirl Fantasy: “hi i am a 13 yr old girl so my parents wont let me type my real name on the internet”

Haiii!!! Pleez lemme !ntroduce u 2 to Teengirl Fantasy’s #1 fan!!! “Hi i am a 13 yr old girl so my parents wont let me type my real name on the internet but you can just call me TEEN GURL aka TG! Basically I am obsessed with the band teen girl fantasy. they are soo0o0ooooo kEwLiEz~!~.”

Teengirl Fantasy’s Angelfire website is stunning because someone had to search a lot of websites from 1996 to find all the digital sugar necessary to build this nauseating digital kingdom.

Let’s selectively draw from our magical chest of originality criterion: “personal energy,” and “humor,” are categories I choose to examine this fantasy.

Personal energy: TF is making lo-fi ghetto house music that sounds like it is made with a MicroKorg and an MPC player, because it is. TF’s beatage is fairly unique; most beats are samples from disco/blackspoitation/early 90s adult contemporary and are over 140 BPM. The beefcake gyrating in man-dex on their Myspace account syncs well with this music. You could also privately nod your head/sashay to this music while thinking about man-dex, if you weren’t actually wearing any during a listening session.

Humor: The Angelfire site from their #1 teenage admirer closes this case. Not enough bands these days exist at the level of humor where they fantasize their own band, let alone create their own fansites. The practice of making music too often becomes joyless. You could pave the subway with musicians who’ve burned out trying too hard to promote their self-serious pop sensibilities.

Teengirl Fantasy’s music is cool, too. It sounds pro-homemade, and has that Brooklyn “2000-naughts” trancey, housey, dance honey dripping all over it. Listen to it at a sleepover or at a floating roller rink made of birthday cake.

Click here (http://teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com/stuff.html) to watch a tomato, a sparkle bee, and a cat with a lei dance.