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Bif Naked Revealed On I Bificus
Rock singer's new LP addresses her impulsive
romantic nature, abortion, same-sex
attraction, alien abduction.
Staff Writer Teri vanHorn reports:
LOS ANGELES 霠Bif Naked falls in love a lot. Sometimes
she falls so hard she gets engaged.
It was the most recent such occasion of impulsive
near-matrimony that inspired "Moment of Weakness" 霊the first single from the charismatic rock singer's I Bificus
album, released last month.
"After my marriage dissolved when I was 21, I've probably
been engaged four or five times," Bif Naked said while in
town to do press interviews and play a show here last
week.
The Vancouver, British Columbia, singer's sweet, girlish
manner contrasts with her tough-girl looks 霠Bettie Page
haircut, heavy black eyeliner extending toward her temple,
a ring piercing her bottom lip, and her arms covered in
tattoos. Dressed in solid black, Bif Naked sat in the
conference room of her label, Atlantic Records 霠the same
location she chose for the video for "Moment of Weakness"
(RealAudio excerpt).
"I always fell in love, and I always will, which is actually
fine, because I feel like I'm never gonna get jaded," Bif
Naked said about the inspiration for the song. "But
my last fianc man, that was really hard crawling
back from the hole I dug for myself in that relationship.
That song is for him, definitely, because it was
like a moment of weakness."
The video, which is on MTV's frequent-play list, follows the
performer as she roams through the Atlantic offices
and startles suit-clad extras. She said she went with
director Marcos Siega's concept for the video because she
thought his treatment best suited the song. Plus, she
added, she and Siega both have the same Schwinn
bicycle, which indicated to her that they were fated to work
together.
Bif Naked, 27, says she leads a straight lifestyle and
practices martial arts. She has a rather exotic background,
having been born in India to a Canadian teenager who gave
her up for adoption; her birth mother had been banished to
a mental hospital to hide her pregnancy.
A young American couple doing missionary work in India
adopted her. The family moved her to Minnesota when she
was 2. They later relocated to Canada, then Kentucky and
finally back to Canada.
Offstage, the singer uses her married name, Beth Hopkins.
But she has used Bif Naked as her stage name since she
started playing in bands during her late teens.
Though "Bif" is a nickname for Beth, she said she doesn't
recall exactly how "Naked" got tacked on and believes it
was "a combination of me and a boyfriend, kind of how he
saw me and how I saw my lyrics."
In addition to love-related themes of betrayal, heartbreak
and same-sex attraction, I Bificus finds Bif Naked delving
into such subjects as abortion and alien abduction. A vein
of humor runs through the album, most often coming in the
little details.
"I died eating french fries," she sings in the chorus of the
opening track, "I Died" (RealAudio excerpt), as she
recalls being dumped by a boyfriend in a restaurant. Later,
on the song "Anything," she tells us her eighth-grade
boyfriend, George, "peed my name in the snow." She said
George calls it poetic license, insisting he wrote her name
with his mitten, but she maintained the story is true.
"She's got a lot of spunk, but she's hardcore," 21-year-old
fan Tina Klein said after Bif Naked and her band performed
at the Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre last week. "She has the
coolest outlook on life, she's very assertive and just plain
rocks. I learned a lot from her album, and it made me
laugh."
While the LP leans heavily on high-energy rock, it also
contains a few ballads, including "Any Day Now" 霠with Bif
Naked's yearning vocal over a base of programmed
keyboards 霠and the pretty acoustic-guitar number
"Lucky" (RealAudio excerpt).
Before I Bificus, Bif Naked released the EP 4 Songs and a
Poem, her self-titled debut LP and a 1997 spoken-word
album, Volume 1. She co-wrote most of the new disc, her
first on a major label, with her manager, Peter Karroll,
whom she calls her "stage mother."
In line with the album's confiding tone, "Choatee" is what
Bif Naked calls "a letter to my unborn child."
"I'm totally pro-choice," she said. "I would never be down
with anyone telling me what to do with my spleen or my
uterus, but at the same time, even though we, as women,
make our own decisions, we're still allowed to mourn our
decisions."
--
gender is just an excuse, relationship shouldn't just be an excuse,
love is often an excuse, although sometimes these excuses are all
we have to hold onto,
death is the reason and living is the celebration
- Beth Orton
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