Here you will find an electroclash cover of Joy Division's She's Lost Control, with vocals by Siobhan Fahey. It's credited to "Agent Provocateur", which is not the name of a new Client/Adult-style electrocoolsie duo, but actually refers to the British lingerie chain, who apparently commissioned it as a promotional item or somesuch.

Which takes the idea of corporations as authors and music as a work for hire to a new level. Well, not entirely; apparently, one of the biggest pop groups in Thailand a few years ago was an enterprise owned and operated by PepsiCo., with musicians, songwriters and personnel hired by corporate managers, and then there was the extended mix of that Coca-Cola jingle which was in the charts in the 1990s. Or perhaps it's more like sponsorship; the track has no references to the brand or lingerie (though could perhaps be a suitable soundtrack to BDSM games whilst wearing such), and sounds much like the usual sort of hard-edged electrohouse you'd hear in Prahran or Hoxton or wherever the beautiful people congregate in their punk-themed designer clothes.

Posted by: mrsmalkav | http:// | Sun Jan 30 23:51:21 2005

the video was pretty fun. the hott dita von teese stripping down into pasties and a very eager shrub lookalike. too bad i can't find it anymore :(

Posted by: threeze | http://neuralvoid.com | Mon Jan 31 11:39:25 2005

mrs brian warner. i hate that guy.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Mon Jan 31 11:55:24 2005

Agreed; he seems to give off a viscerally repulsive vibe, like some unpleasant disease one might catch in the toilet cubicles at a goth club. It's like all the meticulous make-up and Vivienne Westwood suits and lofty Weimar-cabaret concepts ("ooh, look at me, I'm an intellectual!") cannot mask the miasma of festering rancidity that emanates from every pore of Marilyn Manson, persona and concept.

Posted by: toby | http:// | Mon Jan 31 11:59:59 2005

If you can get it to work (it's rather pedantic about wanting netscape 4.7.x or IE) the video is here:

http://music.uk.launch.yahoo.com/ar-311579-videos--Erreur-Fatale---Agent-Provocateur

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