When the announcement
posted on my Facebook Wall, I literally jumped of the couch. Our town and
county mayors announcing Bif Naked (and some other people - just kidding) would
be playing this year’s free admission Party
In The Park, Labour Day long weekend, 2016. And then I proceeded to gleefully
jump around the house making loud “Yes. Yes. Yes.” and “Oh my god. Oh my god.”
I then went to work and subjected my co-workers with copious amounts of Bif Naked history, without any shame and included a full declaration of girl-crush. I
also booked off time to make it to her performance, weeks in advance.
Have I lost my mind? That
is really not the right question. Will I lose my mind? That is what I’m trying
to prevent when Miss Beth Torbert and her band, Bif Naked come to town. Then I
read comments re: my raving post on a local community page. It went something
like (exactly) this,
- “wish
the town would live in 2016, not 2003.”
- “I
didn’t even know that she did anything anymore.”
And even as far as,
- “I
heard she was a mega-bitch in person.” That one both made me laugh and want to
throat-punch the person, personally. Simply because, everybody is a ‘bitch’
sometimes.
And all these comments were to be
expected from certain folks, previous history dictates. I also couldn’t resist
to urge to reply a knock’em-all’down
reply back, as follows,
- “Pretty
sure this Bif Naked: Forever (Acoustic and Other Delights) was released 2012 and her new book, just hit bestseller across North America. (So who's living in what year again?)
This woman rocks anything she gets her hands on, including breast cancer and
stuff. And she's sexy as hell through it all. Living super woman.
BIF NAKED ~I Bificus [FULL ALBUM]
I’m not a fanatical fan by any means of the word, or
psychological profile, really. I just really love and appreciate this woman for
her accomplishments, her talents (which are so many), and her ability to share
so openly about such personal moments, whether just waking up in her kitchen in
Paris, or waking up in her hospital bed, after chemotherapy. Beth Torbert (Bif
Naked) is just that way.
In short form, her resume reads experience and success
in song writing, singing, poetry, Animal Rights activist, acting,
philanthropy, motivational speaking, non-fictional writing, blogging, (take a
breath), and more.
Moral of this post: Just because you think that a
musician is no longer performing, or (at the extreme) falsely dead, maybe a
person should use their wonderful Facebook and Google apps and they will
probably find out that they themselves stopped ‘rockin’, not the artist.
©Dominique Clark 2016
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