Nazi Pop Twins
With a title like that, you’d be forgiven for thinking as I did that this little documentary on Channel 4 tonight would be skewed to say the least. And, considering the pretty unanimous hatred of the band Prussian Blue (I’d link the official site but the account seems to have been suspended in the past hour, lol, I take it this doc had a large audience), and Lamb and Lynx, the two teens it consists of, you’d probably be forgiven for saying, “so what? It should be skewed.” So consider my amazement when, as the end credits rolled, I found myself with even less doubt in my mind that these girls are, basically, okay.
I honestly think part of me almost wanted to see something here that made me think, “hmm – maybe they are evil afterall” because it seems like such a hideously evil thing in itself at the moment to even ask, “wait, what’s wrong with Prussian Blue?” – but nada, zip, nothing, it was only their mother and the people she seemed almost desperate to get included in the whole project who came out here looking truly bad.
Yes, their name is unfortunate. Yes, their first album has a few dodgy songs on it. Yes, they’re embraced by a few dangerous morons. But the girls themselves? Turns out they’re even more normal than I thought. There are some great moments here as when the documentary’s maker asks an awkward question from behind the camera and they call over to their mother to see if she’s asleep – getting no response, they suddenly open up and talk about their plans for the future which may not even include music. When mum’s eyes are open, though? They wholeheartedly rail against him with her, finally hounding him off the premises effectively ending the documentary. In a way it’s the perfect documentary – getting a camera in somewhere we’ve barely seen. Prussian Blue, Lamb and Lynx in particular, have always been seen through the veil of their own publicity or the understandably conservative “think of the children!” media. This is like the first time we’ve actually had the opportunity to see exactly who they are. And it’s even more intriguing than I thought.