![]() "But she would get off on breaking the rules a little bit. "She was a Roman Catholic, much as I am," he explained. Lyrically, it was inspired by a woman who encouraged Steele to do some cosplay in bed. Musically, the song is an unlikely combination of church music and Eighties New Wave. That'd be "Christian Woman," the album's second single. 1" was crucial to Type O's success, but it's not Hickey's favorite song on Bloody Kisses. They just made folly of humanity, you know? And we had very much a Devo philosophy." "That's what Devo was about - making fun of their own fans. "One of Peter's favorite bands in the whole world, which he modeled the satirical nature of Type O after, was Devo," Hickey reveals. 1" is a rarity in that it was completely embraced by the very goths that the lyrics make fun of. She was the ultimate goth girl, and I was poking fun at her because she was in love with herself."īeyond being clever and catchy, "Black No. It's about the girl I fucking slashed my wrists over. "I was waiting on line for three hours to dump 40 cubic yards of human waste at the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station, and I wrote the song in my head. 1' while I was driving a fucking garbage truck," he told me in a 2008 interview. Steele was working for the NYC Parks Department when he came up with Type O's biggest hit. It was like seeing a ghost and then realizing that ghost is you." "I was watching MTV Classic the other day, and it came on," Hickey says. "That's what did it - like a year and a half later." "Beavis and Butthead liked it," Kelly points out. 1' was definitely a pivotal moment for the band," Hickey says. Video of Type O Negative - Christian Woman Then Steele produces a knife and pulls a pale woman with dark lipstick into the shadows. "She likes the dark." The camera pulled back to reveal him playing a massive stand-up bass strapped over his shoulder, and that sing-along chorus kicks in: "Loving you was like loving the dead." Cut to Silver playing the Addams Family piano lick, segue into the Sabbath-like break-down. ![]() "She's in love with herself," Steele purred as the unforgettable loping bassline curls through the speakers. When the black-and-white video hit MTV with Steele's fangs front-and-center as goth girls danced around the band, there was no turning back. This band could potentially be the biggest thing Roadrunner's ever put out." We knew right away we had something incredible. "The band had massively evolved into a totally different thing from Slow, Deep and Hard. "We all heard the potential," Monte Conner says of the Bloody Kisses demos. The band was fucking hysterical, but a lot of people missed out on that." And it still had that tongue-in-cheek humor that was so often overlooked. But there was a Beatles-type element to it, and to see that kind of musicality being brought into Type O was really cool. "At first, I didn't want to hear crooning," Kelly concedes. ![]()
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