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Kitten on the Keys: It's Not A Pretty Princess Day Sexy, risque and bawdy, Suzanne Ramsey is everything you could want in burlesque entertainment. Now, you can give the gift of insanity, or take her home, just for you!  As Kitten on the Keys, her musical or audio twin, Suzanne Ramsey delivers a CD collection of diddies that allows you to have burlesque in your home. Really. Burlesque isn't just T & A you know ~ it's class, it's sass, and it's vulgar, twisted humor.
From the insecure line "Does this piano make my butt look big?" to the demands of toe sucking in "Bare My Sole", Suzanne doesn't miss a trick. "Pony Girl" and "Furvert" mock sex acts & fetishes, "Kitten Anarchy" is a punk anthem ~ filled with little girl giggles and "Golly jeepers!"
With lyrics & themes that frankly disturb, she's dangerously honest, deviant in her activities, and cruel in her irony. Yet sweet in her insanity.
Her talents as a skilled piano, ukulele, and accordion player allow the focus to be on her theatrical performances ~ Imagine Betty Boop on a rant (and quite possibly, speed), and you are starting to get the idea.
Examples? You want examples? OK, but I warned ya!
The title track, "Pretty Princess Day" is a song riddled with insecurities & expectations. It's "Manic Monday" for real women:
"Does This Piano Make My BUTT look BIG?
Although my strudel intake has been frugal
I remove my girdle and I
spread out like a giant sea turtle"
Women aren't perfect. Nor are we benign. In "Lethal Lolita" Suzanne exposes the claws:
"Tampers With Excedrin
Shoplifts Porn
Malignant Flirty Smile
As She Sits On Ears of Corn
Lethal Lolita
A shot in the Dark
Lethal Lolita
Masticates Your Jello Heart"
The delight is her ability to take seemingly unrelated musical styles, characters, and social issues, put them in the blender of her mind, and then perform the snot out of them.
What would a necropheliac lover of Jesus sound like? Listen to the "Lonesome Valley" and wonder no more:
"He's got Nails in his hands
He's got nails in his feet
But his dangling meat
Is still OH So Sweet!
Then there's the res-ERECTION..."
The combination of tracks on Pretty Princess Day are at once self-deprecating & accusing; both feminist & pandering to female stereotypes; both silly & wise. It's the seemingly impossible celebration of our collective decadence.
With all of this going on, it's a wonder Suzanne hasn't been arrested & incarcerated. "Completely uncalled for" would be the judgment. One imagines the only reason she hasn't served time is a plea of temporary insanity due to PMS. That, or she had a female judge. One who completely understands what it's like to be smart, passionate & female & realizes she, we, have already served our time.
"Completely uncalled for"? More like "About friggin' time!"
Purr-chasing a copy of Kitten On The Key's (It's Not A) Pretty Princess Day is not only a guarantee of fun, but it supports both an artist and a genre which need our support. One day you'll want ~ nay, need your burlesque fix, and if you don't buy it now, what will you do? ...what will you do...
(Alternate Ending: Buy a copy of (It's Not A) Pretty Princess Day, or I'll send Lethal Lolita to your house.)
You may purr-chase this CD in our store, or at the artist's website.
Review by Gracie.
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