https://youtu.be/neU0YrLl7vE?si=BZchM2ECWoi_yN8H

But if you're just getting into Bladee, I think it's worth going backwards before you go forwards. The best album to fuck with is Eversince, which one of Bladee's best albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMP5SQ_JQA

This is the era of Bladee where you don't who this motherfucker is. He just popping out the shadows, never showing his face. It's dark Bladee era. Very important era.

This one is so under rated though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKXO3N5aF4

It actually took me a while to listen to Red Light. It came out very close to the time Icedancer did and I just overlooked it for a while.

In fact if you search Google for "Bladee Red Light" as of today, the Anthony Fantano review comes up before the actual album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJwmTnjDkrI

It's well know as one of the lowest reviews Fantano ever gave and it's funny because over time he realizes like most of us that Bladee is something you get initiated into slowly.

She is an aged woman at this point. And she's still doing her thing. So you have to respect it.

https://www.instagram.com/lydia.lunch.official/

I think these are the only pictures of her I've ever seen where she doesn't look prepared for the camera though.

She isn't afraid of the possibility that you're not going to like what you see. She is counting on that.

I like what she represents and I don't care if not everything about that is something you can shove praise at.

It might sound like I don't like her, but I do.

There would not have been Teenage Jesus and the Jerks if she was not like this.

She is committed to seizing your attention and defying your expectations.

And artistically, it's a good thing.

Being intentionally provocative and over the top is what she does.

But there is a well crafted mystique that is part of her brand.

That isn't to say I think she makes everything up. In some ways she is more honest than her contemporaries were.

There is an amount of fantasy to everything she does and says.

In all the stories that she tells, I consider her to be an unreliable narrator... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator

She can be kind of a bitch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92qnnRlQ2w

To be fair, she was hardly the only person to have small patience with Nardwuar in the 90s. I wouldn't judge her too badly from this.

They are all about Lydia's favorite subject: Lydia Lunch.

This is a woman who can talk about herself uninterrupted for over an hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyqh0gDb-c

But I suppose few people are as interesting as she is, so she has some license to do this.