“i like the devil”: Purity Ring’s Prayer for a Balanced Perspective on Feminism and Womanhood
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The song skillfully expresses the complex demonization and deification of womanhood throughout history If there were ever a musical act to embody the adjective of rebel, Purity Ring is that act. Starting in 2012, with debut album Shrines, vocalist Megan James has delivered dense, mysterious, beautifully threatening lyrics, and producer Corin Roddick has turned the idea of…