"Bind me, tie me, chain me to the wall / I wanna be a slave to you all!" "Oh bondage! Up yours! / Oh bondage! Come on!" ( As Styrene continue[s] on to the second verse, she reveal[s] that the song is not about sex, but about consumerism): "Chain store, chain smoke, I consume you all / Chain gang, chain mail, I don't think at all!" -XRay Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

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3 years ago (edited)

"Bind me, tie me, chain me to the wall / I wanna be a slave to you all!" "Oh bondage! Up yours! / Oh bondage! Come on!" ( As Styrene continue[s] on to the second verse, she reveal[s] that the song is not about sex, but about consumerism): "Chain store, chain smoke, I consume you all / Chain gang, chain mail, I don't think at all!" In this one utterance, Styrene transformed a seemingly masochistic plea into an indictment of consumer culture, denouncing the blind impulses of the mainstream shopper. In depicting herself as both an agent of and resister to her submission, she created a parody of both positions, juxtaposing them powerfully against each other.