Jeffree Star – Beauty Killer
by Bambi Weavil
Jeffree Star (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube), aka “Mrs. Orange County” and “Queen of the Beautifuls,” has been a social networking superstar with millions of fans spread across MySpace and Twitter. As his lyrics state from pop-techno radio and club ready “Electric Sugar Pop”, “In the limo windows down baby I’m quite a sight” – Star is a walking canvas of those who have influenced him from Marilyn Monroe to Katharine Hepburn to Princess Diana to Wednesday Adams and much more. Star’s recent release, Beauty Killer is defining beauty by your own terms and screw ‘the standards’ and ‘expectations.’
Beauty Killer is an all-out onslaught of colorful rock, pop and lots of techno. If you have preconceived expectations of what you’re expecting from Star, then check them in at the door. “Fresh Meat” and “Getting Away With Murder” are written by someone who’s spent the last four years of his life in fast-forward, throwing drinks and getting kicked out of clubs, then in the morning, responding to emails from pre-teen boys whose fathers have kicked them out of the house for coming out of the closet.
“Louis Vutton Body Bag” features Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio, is about self-mutilation, and love through pain by experience, is evident throughout the album. Starr’s wit is more than just makeup on a blank canvas, sometimes dark, sometimes fierce and scandalous, but original and unforgettable and not someone you can dismiss.
There is plenty of tongue-in-cheek on this record, but “Fame & Riches, Rehab Bitches” featuring Breathe Carolina, captures the juxtapose of reality versus plastic, airbrushing and finding out what you’re really made of. No matter how you perceive Starr, his music is worth giving a listen to, and he will undoubtedly keep the world talking.
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