“She’s never afraid to make a statement but Amanda Palmer made a bit of a boob of herself on stage at Glastonbury,” lautet der einleitende Satz der entsprechenden Meldung. Auch im weiteren Text geht es nur um Amanda Palmers Garderobe, über den Auftritt und die Musik wird nicht berichtet.
Was die Sängerin von diesem Verhalten hält, verdeutlicht ein Song, den sie kurz darauf bei ihrem Auftritt im Londoner Roundhouse spielte. Hier findet ihr Palmers vollständiges Statement, unten seht ihr einen Mitschnitt des gesungenen offenen Briefes und den dazugehörigen Text.
Amanda Palmer – “Dear Daily Mail. Sincerely, Amanda Palmer”
Dear Daily Mail,
It has come to my recent attention
That me recent appearance at glastonbury festivals kindly received a mention
I was doing a number of things on that stage up to and including singing songs (like you do
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But you chose to ignore that and instead you published a feature review of my boob
Dear Daily Mail,
Theres a thing called a search engine: use it!
If youd googled my tits in advance youd have found that your photos are hardly exclusive
In addition you state that my breast had escaped from my bra like a thief on the run
You do you know that it wasnt attempting to just take in the RARE british sun?
Dear Daily Mail,
Its so sad what you tabloids are doing
Your focus on debasing womens appearances ruins our species of humans
But a rag is a rag and far be it from me to go censoring anyone OH NO
It appears that my entire body is currently trying to escape this kimono
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Dear Daily Mail,
You misogynist pile of twats
Im tired of these baby bumps, vadge flashes, muffintops
Where are the newsworthy COCKS?
If Iggy or Jagger or Bowie go topless the news barely causes a ripple
Blah blah blah feminist blah blah blah gender shit blah blah blah
OH MY GOD NIPPLE
Dear Daily Mail,
You will never write about this night
I know that because ive addressed you directly ive made myself no fun to fight
But thanks to the internet people all over the world can enjoy this discourse
And commune with a roomful of people in London who arent drinking kool-aid like yours
And though there be millions of people wholl accept the cultural bar where you have it at
There are plenty of others whore perfectly willing to see breasts in their natural habitat
I keenly anticipate your highly literate coverage of upcoming tours
Dear Daily Mail,
UP YOURS.