“Perhaps it was because I seemed fearless and aggressive,” Debbie Harry says of being labelled as “cool”. “It wasn’t something I thought about having to be. I think my objectives were much simpler than that.”
These affectations all played into Harry’s evolving Blondie character, a bottle-blonde postmodern simulation that was equal parts vulnerability and aggression, disco and punk, bombshell and engagée. If fellow punk Patti Smith’s early shows were noted for the singer’s sly interpretation of a man by a woman, then Harry’s persona was often said to be a woman pretending to be a man posing as a woman.
“Perhaps it was because I seemed fearless and aggressive,” Harry says about this oft-used descriptor. “It wasn’t something I thought about having to be. I think my objectives were much simpler than that.” “I don’t know if ‘uncaring’ is the right word – but back then nobody said, ‘I don’t give any fucks,’” Stein adds. “[And] that was a part of Debbie’s persona.”also spotlights the extent to which film – particularly B-movies – informed the band’s musical evolution.
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