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Lucy Liyou: MR COBRA

Pitchfork·Elise Soutar·19 days ago
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“It’s all about the human as a house,” Kate Bush replied when asked to supply the meaning of “ Get Out of My House ,” the blood-curdling, The Shining -inspired shriek of a final track on her self-described “she’s-gone-mad” record, 1983’s The Dreaming . Bush’s song envisions a woman battling the monsters she’s imagined her fear has made manifest, braying like a donkey and kicking in doors: “You change, it changes; you can’t escape, so you turn around and face it, scare it away.” Like Bush before her, Bay Area-based experimentalist Lucy Liyou has cultivated an eclectic discography through which to distort and refract her own identity, both as an artist and as a trans woman of color building a home in a world that spurns her. MR COBRA , Liyou’s new album and theater piece, reckons with a troubling experience that’s only too common: a period in her teenage years during which she “fell in love with a predator.” The narrative follows Liyou’s heroine, named Babygirl, and the titular Mr.…

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