{"id":757,"date":"2007-08-06T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-09T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:54:59","slug":"rock-s-doomed-fashion-trends-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-doomed-fashion-trends-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends: The Suburban Guerrilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve covered one of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Rock&#8217;s Doomed Fashion Trends<\/a><\/strong>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Headband<\/a>. Today, I&#8217;d like to take a look at one of Rock&#8217;s Resiliant Fashion Trends.<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the following video, in which Toni Childs&#8217; duets with a famous soul man and a star-studded supporting cast.<\/em><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTMaPh2nmms?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Despite the overall fine performance alongside the legendary <strong>Al Green<\/strong>, despite <strong>Carlos Santana<\/strong>&#8216;s flaming red suit, despite the star-studded, mulleted backup singers, the real star of this clip is <strong>Toni Childs&#8217; Look<\/strong>, which I&#8217;m calling the <strong>Suburban Guerrilla Look<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nEvery few years the music industry cranks out a chick sporting this combo of an Afro-centric headwrap and cloak, brightly colored beads, and beneath all that bedazzled trim, a smart business suit! Beneath the suit is an ill-defined mass of could-be sexy flesh, but who knows for sure? The Suburban Guerrilla does not appear in anything less than three layers of clothing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W1YKOk9QA8U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI need your help, Townspeople. Who was rock&#8217;s first Suburban Guerrilla, <strong>Ricky Lee Jones<\/strong>? I believe it all dates back to <strong>Janis Joplin<\/strong>, but Janis never had the suburban foundation of the smart grey suit. Or is it as simple as <strong>Miriam Makeba<\/strong>? Without ever wearing anything more than a betet and a pancho, the great <strong>Joni Mitchell<\/strong> herself <em>exuded<\/em> this Look. Is the <strong>Classic Stevie Nicks Look<\/strong> an important precurssor? Who&#8217;s followed in the wake of these titans of suburban bohemia? I can think of that 4 Non-Blondes woman. Erykah Badu and <strong>Lauryn Hill<\/strong> have flirted with it. You know <strong>Natalie Merchant<\/strong> wants to go for it, but she settles for just the smart suit and a subtle hippie trimming. Fiona Apple&#8217;s got to have this Look in mind for when she hits middle age and finally puts on a few pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Surely I&#8217;m missing a handful of women who&#8217;ve kept this Look (barley) alive. They come and they go, and like Toni Childs, we soon forget they ever existed. Then some new one shows up on <strong>The Tonight Show with Jay Leno<\/strong>, and you think, <em>What the hell is this woman getting at? Who likes this kind of music?<\/em> At least I think this. Leno&#8217;s always got someone like this on. In the last year there was some goofy, semi-goth version of the Suburban Guerrilla accompanying herself on nothing more than a synth. In the &#8217;90s there was some blonde woman with a Carly Simon-like suburban sex appeal who was a full-fledged Suburban Guerrilla. It&#8217;s been bugging me for a few days that I haven&#8217;t been able to remember her name.<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the Suburban Guerrilla headed? Has <strong>Amy Winehouse<\/strong> already moved it into the 21st Century? Can&#8217;t you see <strong>Joanna Newsome<\/strong> giving it a spin?<\/p>\n<p><small><em>NOTE: The title of this thread is in no way a commentary on the fine, fine political blog named <a href=\"http:\/\/susiemadrak.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/susiemadrak.com\/\">Suburban Guerrilla<\/a>. I visit this place on occasion, and I guess the name stuck in my head and got applied to this Toni Childs video I found while researching a future Rock Crimes piece.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve covered one of Rock&#8217;s Doomed Fashion Trends, the Headband. Today, I&#8217;d like to take a look at one of Rock&#8217;s Resiliant Fashion Trends. Check out the following video, in which Toni Childs&#8217; duets with a famous soul man and a star-studded supporting cast. Despite the overall fine performance alongside the legendary <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-doomed-fashion-trends-pt-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,344],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}