04/28/2023 — TV girl is real incel music

“The unhealthy obsession with women goes even farther. The album Death of a Party Girl includes such song titles as “Lonely Girls”, “Every Stupid Actress”, and the namesake “Death of a Party Girl.” Their debut album, French Exit, was even more female-focused with “Pantyhose”, “Louise”, “The Blonde”, “Daughter of a Cop”, “Her and Her Friend”, and “Anjela.” This affinity for the female enigma shouldn’t be mistaken for feminism, though. It comes off less as a show of respect for women, and more like a process of “othering” the women who made Petering bitter. 

Many of TV Girl’s lyrics lament failed relationships and all the girls who broke his heart. Initially, his self-deprecation is funny until his subject matter reveals patterns. His songwriting comes together as an outlet for grumbling about the women who screwed him over, while neglecting his own responsibility in relationships.

Those songs don’t treat women as real, individual people as much as they distort them into a collective concept of womanhood, one that runs on a mysterious logic unfathomable to men. They echo a dangerous trope that has currency in Incel (“involuntary celibate”) forums online that blames women for men’s inability to maintain a long-term relationship or get laid. Those forums and ideas have radicalized young men who blame women for their loneliness. I’m not calling TV Girl members Incels, but their songs’ unhealthy fixation on--and mystifying of--women is in line with that rhetoric.”

-myspiltmilk

if all of this wasn’t obvious to people with ears, TV girl is incel music! 

it’s still enjoyable tbff….