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Fashion Regime

by New Rev

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Fashion Regime is power pop for pop culture addicts! Take a drive through the 1980s in your beat-up Chevy Nova and your costume jewelry bumping and grinding to this upbeat (but cynical) look at fashionistas and designers.

Lyric video: youtu.be/MWKhkAG8Ky0
Band website: newrev.band

Released on July 7, 2021, this video premiered at the Rola la Música Virtual Festival (youtu.be/9Y6HbXkc-JY&t=59m5s) on June 25, 2021.

This is the first single by New Rev, a music project by re-emerging artist Curtisonic (a.k.a. Curtis Long), a US-born, Mexico-based musician.

This recording is the 2021 digital remaster of the 1991 stereo master, available for the first time! Thus the now-unfashionable references to things that were oh-so-hip 30 years ago. Think of it as a period piece.

lyrics

(Traducción al español de la letra a continuación)

Better watch your step when you go out
You just might get gunned down
If the makeup on your face is the wrong hue
Or a hair is out of place in your new ‘do
You just might be impounded by the Marshals of Taste
And your friends will say, oh my, what a waste
I know you’ve tried to live within the limits of the law
A victim, it seems, of the Fashion Regime
The crop of the cream is a fashion regime

All around the world
There’s a monarch in control
Who monitors your thoughts and putrefies your soul
With trash that springs from the gutters
Of Madison Avenue’s fodders and mudders
And you can’t resist when this year’s models sparkle on the lots
Because your friends have new cars and you see how they play
While you’re painting the scars on your old Chevrolet
Pink goes with green it’s a fashion regime
Welcome to the machine it’s a fashion regime

New toys! Ordered through the mail.
Can’t wait! Know you’re going to love them.
Oh no! Even if they’re broken
It’s alright! Because I charged them on
American Express Gold Card of course

Everybody hail the President Saint Laurent
Everybody bow before Prime Minister Claiborne
Your power tie is without doubt
Required gear for corporate clout
And at Liz Sports you’re sure to lose
If you don’t wear the proper shoes
And friends will say that you are wrong
To like this non-top 40 song
And if it’s hip to go in drag
Then don your old polythene bag
God save the queen! It’s a fashion regime
Forget self-esteem it’s a fashion regime

Better watch your step when you go out
You just might get car-bombed
If your favorite restaurant isn’t 5-star
Or you haven’t got a bra on your sports car
You just might be arrested by the Grand Inquisition
For compromise of your moral position
And I know that you subscribe to all the hippest magazines
But the consequences of the rules you’ve broken
Are 25 years to life in Shamokin
Hail yuppies full of cash the Board is with thee

Words and Music Copyright ©1990 Curtis C. Long

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TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL

Será mejor que cuides tus pasos cuando salgas
Es posible que te disparen
si el maquillaje de tu cara es del tono incorrecto
o si un cabello está fuera de lugar en tu nuevo peinado
Es posible que los Mariscales del Gusto te encarcelaren
Y tus amigos dirán, ¡cielos! que desperdicio
Sé que has intentado vivir dentro de los límites de la ley
Una víctima, al parecer, del Fashion Regime
La cosecha de la crema es un régimen fashionista

En todo el mundo
Hay un monarca al mando
Que monitorea tus pensamientos y pudre tu alma
Con basura que brota de las alcantarillas
De los padres desmadres de Madison Avenue
No puedes resistirte cuando los modelos de este año brillan en los lotes
Porque tus amigos tienen nuevos carros y ves como juegan
mientras estás pintando las cicatrices de tu viejo Chevrolet
El rosa va con el verde verde, es un régimen fashionista
Bienvenido a la máquina, es un régimen modista

¡Nuevos juguetes! Pedido por correo.
¡No puedo esperar! Sé que los amarás.
¡Ay, no! Incluso si están rotos
¡Esta bien! Porque los
cargué con la tarjeta American Express
Gold card, por supuesto

Todo el mundo saluda al presidente Saint Laurent
Todo el mundo se inclina ante la primera ministra Claiborne
Tu corbata de poder es sin duda
Equipo necesario para la influencia corporativa
Y en Liz Sports seguro que perderás
Si no usas los zapatos correctos
Y tus amigos dirán que te equivocas si te gusta
Esta canción que no es de los 40 principales
Y si es moderno ir en drag
Entonces ponte tu vieja bolsa de polietileno
¡Dios salve a la reina! Es un régimen fashionista
Olvídate de la autoestima, es un régimen de moda

Será mejor que cuides tus pasos cuando salgas
Es posible que tu coche explote misteriosamente
Si tu restaurante favorito no es de 5 estrellas
O tu coche deportivo no tiene antifaz
Es posible que la Gran Inquisición te detenga
Por transigir de tu posición moral
Y sé que estás suscrito a todas las revistas más cool
Pero las consecuencias de las reglas que has roto son
25 años hasta reclusión perpetua en Shamokin
Dior te salve yuppie llena de plata, la Junta Directiva es contigo

credits

released July 7, 2021
Words & Music: Curtis C. Long
Guitars, voice, and drum programming: Curtis Long
Assistant to the Assistant Producer: William Lenhart
Spanish translation sanity check: Carmen Colmenares
Kids: The Gorman family
Recorded in 1990 in Beekman, New York. Mastered in 1991 in Austin, Texas. Remastered in 2021 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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New Rev Cuernavaca, Mexico

New Rev is an indie rock music project begun in 2020 by Curtisonic, a US-born musician living in Cuernavaca. ↻ New Rev es un proyecto de música rock indie iniciado en 2020 por Curtisonic, un músico nacido en Estados Unidos que vive en Cuernavaca.

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