[TypicalGirls] Goldie, Lora and religion in punk

mike at appelstein.com mike at appelstein.com
Fri Mar 30 08:14:50 EST 2007


Lora, unfortunately, seems to be embarrassed about her Jewish  
heritage.  I attempted to interview her through the mail a few years  
back, and the moment I started asking questions about whether she was  
raised Jewish, I never heard from her again.  (She did send me Hare  
Krishna pamphlets, though - which I keep next to the Jack Chick comics  
I took from Palmolive's church!)

Perhaps it's more of a family thing than a religious thing, given the  
below.  Certainly the lyrics she wrote for Essential Logic are full of  
mocking rejection of her upbringing.

-Mike



> Lora Logic's father was a German Jew.  Her mother was
> Finnish, but not Jewish, I believe.  I don't recall
> her talking of having any sort of religious
> upbringing; her father changed her name to appear less
> Jewish (or more English, I suppose, depending on how
> one looks at it.)  They were fairly well-off (or at
> least solidly upper-middle class), and 'indulged' Lora
> her musical career to they extent that they saw it as
> a temporary diversion from school, not a real thing.
> Lora always seemed embarrassed by her parents and one
> could easily follow this thread through many of her
> songs, which seem to detail parental failings and
> problems in a highly obscured but still rather obvious
> manner.
>
> - Pascale
>
>
>
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