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Tommy Monroe
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* secretly beautiful, so secret nobody knows
* frequently wakes up and seldom remembers how
* thrives on the element of suprise
* has been cursed with constant and everlasting thought
* a diagnosed love addict
* doesn't understand why live and let live is not a commandment
* sold the soul for a crap shag and a lion bar
* has defeated loneliness <3
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Tommy Monroe - a case study
Tommy's a fucking odd one.
Part of him is "camp as a drunken tramp" (his words) and as feminine as, well, a girl. The other bit's an idiot boy who winds people up and laughs at the most insensitive times.
Tommy's music is fucking odd too. Like product like creator perhaps.
It's best described as a mess of words, feelings and bad guitar. But it does have a certain charm..
It seems clear that he cares most about three things: gender, sexuality, and falling in and out of love. The songs are passionate, raw, gay, straight, man, woman, emotional, cold-hearted, sometimes difficult to understand, but always approachable, arrogant and swimming in ambiguity.
I have to respect Tommy's knack for putting the weird and wonderful into such a trustworthy format - the song structures are pure pop, generally two and a half minutes long and spread with a knife covered in hooks, but the lyrical content is occasionally dark, usually feisty and always desperate.
And that's what's totally brilliant.
I never thought i'd be able to listen to a song like 'Alex', telling of a seemingly transgendered dominatrix that obviously made Tommy feel more than a whip in a tender area, or the sexually hedonistic 'Looking Forward' with lines as brave, brutal and bold as "i'm looking forward to taking back boys to my hotel room", and actually get it.
Anyway.
His myspace 'headline' is "PUNK ROCK AND HARD COCK.", the first line of his profile is "secretly beautiful, so secret it's usually hard to tell" and his first song is entitled "love comes first, making love comes later". With this information alone, I can come to the conclusion that Tommy is a poet who really fucking knows it, a lexical lunatic with a passion for wordplay and more than a passing interest in what I can only assume is irony.
But I can only assume.
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