My Fergie Fatwa

 

As has been well-documented, I have a lot of hang-ups when it comes to band t-shirt etiquette. As a forty-year-old father or two, I should probably get over it (especially when I outfit my own children in Motorhead and Devo shirts). But if Fergie can name – let alone hum -- a single Sisters of Mercy song (apart from maybe "This Corrosion"), I'd be damn surprised. Thus, for wearing a shirt with the "Body & Soul" single art on it, she earns my eternal hatred. Honestly, she'd already won that honor for blighting the world with "My Humps," but for dishonoring the mighty Sisters with her insipid vileness, I must now officially condemn her.

Comments

[bendy]

I call this phenomenon "Your record label dresses you funny." I have long wondered who picks out these t-shirts for starlets. About five years ago, there was a sudden proliferation of Ramones t-shirts among red-carpet-walkers. Motorhead seems primed to take over, as though the Ramones are suddenly not as cool. We're about seven years away from Dwarves t-shirts.

[EV Grieve]

Barf.

Still, maybe Andrew Eldritch will get a nice royalties check out of this.

[MEK]

Makes me sick and she was a part of that Kids Incorporated Saturday morning kid show when Sisters were big.

[StanM]

If it wasn't the exact same color as the single I'd have suggested she was just wearing a Gustave Doré shirt, but yeah

http://iws.ccccd.edu/Andrade/WorldLitI2332/Dante/inf_dore_32.125.jpeg

[craig]

i used to know a band whose lead singer proudly wore an old "Quarterflash" concert jersey that he paid big bucks for it at some LA boutique. he was in his twenties and thought they were a heavy metal band. he looked really disappointed when i started singing "i'm gonna harden my heart" to him and he finally realized what a lame band they were. with urban outfitters selling Residents t-shirts anything is possible. he also had an Agnostic Front t-shirt and when i told him they were a hardcore skinhead band in the eighties he thought he should stop wearing it.