Naked Music Monday: Mastodon, “The Motherload”

The ladies I performed with in the new Mastodon video, “The Motherload,” were not all strippers, but I don’t think that matters much to the 800,000-plus viewers that watched the video in the first week. Though those of us who were strippers initially sat in cliques—the girls who knew each other from the same club… Continue reading Naked Music Monday: Mastodon, “The Motherload”

Stripper Music Monday: Nickelback Edition

Nickelback's newest album will be released November 4, in case you were wondering.

I love Nickelback. Since the dawn of time it has been quite trendy to hate them. But with last summer’s resurgence of normcore, maybe Nickelback finally has a place in the lexicon of pop culture’s tastemakers. And this is Stripper Music Monday and since when do strippers give a fuck about being ahead of the curve… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Nickelback Edition

Stripper Music Monday: The Sad Stripper Trope Exemplified

Marisa Tomei as a very sad stripper in The Wrestler.

Reposted with permission from Jacq the Stripper. I found this music video. It made me so angry I wanted to vomit. (Eds. note: this song is absolutely terrible.) Behold, another sad girl who “drinks all day, dances all night.” She’s sad; she misses her daddy; she’s a cutter; her boss is abusive and – gasp!… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: The Sad Stripper Trope Exemplified

Stripper Music Monday: It’s Initiation Time

Welcome to the club! (image via flickr user dustout)

Starting a new club is never easy. You have to contend with the management, the staff, and a whole new crowd of customers. It takes a while, but eventually you adapt to the new atmosphere. So long as you make it through the initiation—the unspoken way a tight group of strippers sometimes try to break… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: It’s Initiation Time

Stripper Music Monday: Money Anthems As Positive Affirmations

Gangsta Boo isn't in the mood. Pay up or get out.

We all have those nights when shaving your entire body, gluing on false lashes, and fake smiling at customers seem like the most laborious tasks imaginable. Now, you can either cop out and decide that the club is PROBABLY going to be dead anyway so you MIGHT AS WELL watch Netflix in bed all night,… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Money Anthems As Positive Affirmations