Pussy Tourette
Encyclopedia
Pussy Tourette is the stage name
for an American drag queen
, composer
and singer.
She is best known for her single "French Bitch", for which a music video/short film directed by Andrei Rozen was made and included in the film festival compilation DVD Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema. The song is a comedic, high camp dance track about the duplicitous title character who "saw my man, so she felt the need to scratch her itch". There is a mild lyrical suggestion that the subject has had an overseas sex-change operation, though this must be inferred by the listener. The chorus is sung in Franglish and contains the double entendre
"Je suis oh-so-hot! Vous vu lay my twat, s'il vous plait?". The song was remixed for club play and was well-received in gay venues, but fell short of being a "hit" in any popular sense.
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
for an American drag queen
Drag queen
A drag queen is a man who dresses, and usually acts, like a caricature woman often for the purpose of entertaining. There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly, from professionals who have starred in films to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and...
, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and singer.
She is best known for her single "French Bitch", for which a music video/short film directed by Andrei Rozen was made and included in the film festival compilation DVD Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema. The song is a comedic, high camp dance track about the duplicitous title character who "saw my man, so she felt the need to scratch her itch". There is a mild lyrical suggestion that the subject has had an overseas sex-change operation, though this must be inferred by the listener. The chorus is sung in Franglish and contains the double entendre
Double entendre
A double entendre or adianoeta is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué or ironic....
"Je suis oh-so-hot! Vous vu lay my twat, s'il vous plait?". The song was remixed for club play and was well-received in gay venues, but fell short of being a "hit" in any popular sense.
Singles
- French Bitch (1993)
- Heels (1993)
- Bracelets (1993)
- If I can't sell it (1993)
- Kiss / All My Misery (1995)
- Outta My House (1998)
- Brand New Day (2005)
- ep1 (2007)
Television and Film
- Cabaret U-Mano - Soundtrack composer (2006)
- Slap Her, She's French - Soundtrack composer (2002)
- G String DivasG String DivasG String Divas was an HBO documentary series. The show was filmed in 2000, and follows the lives of strippers working in a Bristol, PA gentlemen's club....
- Soundtrack Composer (2000) - Men In Shorts 2 - Herself (2000)
- La Cage aux Zombies - Soundtrack composer (1995)
- HBO's Real Sex - Soundtrack composer (1994)
- Sex Is... - Soundtrack composer (1993)
External links
- Official MySpace Profile
- IMDB page
- Pussy Tourette - New York Times listing
- http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:y6tHczgPjgsJ:www.humboldt-stiftung.net/en/netzwerk/frontiers/gafoh/abstracts/mmorris.pdf+%22french+bitch%22+lyrics&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us "Pussy Tourette’s “French Bitch” and the Metamorphics of Post-Queer Gender Performance" (Mitchell Morriss)