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Advocate, The, Feb 14, 2006 by Kurt B. Reighley
Standing in the Way of Control, the third studio full-length from the Gossip, is a step up for the trio. Their potent punk rock still induces frantic dancing, but the 10 songs also showcase some of openly queer lead singer Beth Ditto's strongest, and darkest, lyrics ("Jealous Girls," "Coal to Diamonds").
But it was only after an extended unexplained illness, which led to emergency gall bladder surgery last summer, that Ditto got a handle on this pessimistic slant. "It makes sense why all those songs are sad," she says, "because I was so sick for two years before we made this record."
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Other facets influenced the tighter, more vibrant sound. Last year, another fierce dyke--Hannah Blilie--joined Ditto as the Gossip's new drummer. "Hannah had a lot of knowledge and training about music and sound, whereas [guitarist] Nathan [Howdeshell, a.k.a. Brace Paine] and I are completely self-taught. We needed someone to mend our split ends."
Ditto has also learned to show off alternate facets of her trademark Southern soul wail, reining it in to a whisper on the chilling "Dark Lines." "I don't have a little voice ... but I have different kinds of voices, and I got to use them all on this record," she says.
And the devoted fan of both John Waters and the late Divine has one idea about a new way she'd like to use her instrument--and her curvaceous frame and frantic footwork--in the future: "If I don't get to play Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway production of Hairspray eventually, I am going to kill someone. That part belongs to me!"
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