Featured Song – Day 11
When ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ roared out of the traps in 2006 the gay and mainstream music and style press were instantly transfixed by the cooler-than-fuck, couldn’t-GIVE-a-fuck figure of Beth Ditto. On this strident queer classic – to date the band’s most famous song – Beth delivered a rallying cry for outsiders everywhere. When she appeared naked on the cover of a 2007 edition of the NME (readership, overwhelmingly male and straight) it became one of the defining cultural moments of LGBT visibility of recent years.
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