Art Doc of the Week | Who Is Poly Styrene?

The 1979 BBC documentary Who is Poly Styrene? opens with footage of the young Styrene looking into a mirror and applying makeup as she recites, in voiceover, the lyrics to her 1978 punk classic, “Identity,” whose lyrics she wrote while fronting her band X-Ray Spex. The song is a razor-sharp feminist critique of the nexus…

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