Here is Sonic Youth's haunting tribute to Karen Carpenter and her eating disorders: link.
The author of the song, Kim Gordon* wrote:
Thru the years of The Carpenters TV specials I saw you change from the Innocent Oreo-cookie-and-milk-eyed girl next door to hollowed eyes and a lank body adrift on a candy-colored stage set. You and Richard, by the end, looked drugged—there’s so little energy. The words come out of yr mouth but yr eyes say other things, “Help me, please, I’m lost in my own passive resistance, something went wrong. I wanted to make myself disappear from their control. My parents, Richard, the writers who call me ‘hippie, fat.’ Since I was, like most girls, brought up to be polite and considerate, I figured no one would notice anything wrong—as long as, outwardly, I continued to do what was expected of me. Maybe they could control all the outward aspects of my life, but my body is all in my control. I can make myself smaller. I can disappear. I can starve myself to death and they won’t know it. My voice will never give me away. They’re not my words. No one will guess my pain. But I will make the words my own because I have to express myself somehow. Pain is not perfect so there is no place in Richard’s life for it. I have to be perfect too. I must be thin so I’m perfect. Was I a teenager once?... I forget. Now I look middle-aged, with a bad perm and country-western clothes.”
I must ask you, Karen, who were your role models? Was it yr mother? What kind of books did you like to read? Did anyone ever ask you that question—what’s it like being a girl in music? What were yr dreams? Did you have any female friends or was it just you and Richard, mom and dad, A&M? Did you ever go running along the sand, feeling the ocean rush up between yr legs? Who is Karen Carpenter, really, besides the sad girl with the extraordinarily beautiful, soulful voice?
your fan – love, kim ______________ *Gordon is the lanky blonde in the video. She was married to the guitar player, Thurston Moore, until she caught him banging the babysitter.
8 comments:
I always thought that her brother banged her and that is why she was so fucked up.
Don't know for sure but there is something not right there. Just sayn'
She is an eating disorder pioneer.
Yeah she didn't want to swallow.
I'm telling you there was always something really odd about them. You could just smell it.
Here is Sonic Youth's haunting tribute to Karen Carpenter and her eating disorders: link.
The author of the song, Kim Gordon* wrote:
Thru the years of The Carpenters TV specials I saw you change from the Innocent Oreo-cookie-and-milk-eyed girl next door to hollowed eyes and a lank body adrift on a candy-colored stage set. You and Richard, by the end, looked drugged—there’s so little energy. The words come out of yr mouth but yr eyes say other things, “Help me, please, I’m lost in my own passive resistance, something went wrong. I wanted to make myself disappear from their control. My parents, Richard, the writers who call me ‘hippie, fat.’ Since I was, like most girls, brought up to be polite and considerate, I figured no one would notice anything wrong—as long as, outwardly, I continued to do what was expected of me. Maybe they could control all the outward aspects of my life, but my body is all in my control. I can make myself smaller. I can disappear. I can starve myself to death and they won’t know it. My voice will never give me away. They’re not my words. No one will guess my pain. But I will make the words my own because I have to express myself somehow. Pain is not perfect so there is no place in Richard’s life for it. I have to be perfect too. I must be thin so I’m perfect. Was I a teenager once?... I forget. Now I look middle-aged, with a bad perm and country-western clothes.”
I must ask you, Karen, who were your role models? Was it yr mother? What kind of books did you like to read? Did anyone ever ask you that question—what’s it like being a girl in music? What were yr dreams? Did you have any female friends or was it just you and Richard, mom and dad, A&M? Did you ever go running along the sand, feeling the ocean rush up between yr legs? Who is Karen Carpenter, really, besides the sad girl with the extraordinarily beautiful, soulful voice?
your fan – love,
kim
______________
*Gordon is the lanky blonde in the video. She was married to the guitar player, Thurston Moore, until she caught him banging the babysitter.
I agree with Trooper that Karen Carpenter was an excellent vocalist -- perhaps the best -- pure mellifluous euphonium.
She was one of the greats of her time.
The only real competition she had was a little snowbird named Anne Murray.
Trooper York said...
Yeah she didn't want to swallow.
I'm telling you there was always something really odd about them. You could just smell it.
Like Donny and Marie?
It is sad about her...
Very sad. Also sad: Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham Once Lost to Karen Carpenter in a ‘Best Drummer’ Poll
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/led-zeppelins-john-bonham-once-lost-to-karen-carpenter-in-a-best-drummer-poll.html/
The beginning of PC bullshit.
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