The Pop Corporation

It’s difficult trying to avoid being cancelled when someone keeps getting their breasts out and we, responsible music critics must pretend we haven’t seen the aforementioned breasts. Even if we have noticed the breasts, then we must underline how people should be able to free their breasts for whatever reason they like, because the people telling you that we must hide all the breasts are weird and wrong.

Either way, we look like we’re gawping at boobs, and that’s very unmodern of us.

And so, to stoic prog overlord Robert Fripp and actor and New Wave legend Toyah Willcox who are seemingly a gloriously happily married couple and their YouTube cover versions that they do together. They’re silly, joyous and very fun. They also very prominently feature Toyah’s breasts. She knows it.

Even YouTube know it. If you’re not signed-in or watching on the YouTube platform, there’s a chance the below video might be ‘age-restricted’. She’s not naked or anything. They’re just really present in the room.

This whole thing is very reductive of us, and we shouldn’t be so low rent about the whole thing really. The fact is, Toyah’s boundless energy is a result of her getting Fripp out of his shell after withdrawing and looking down in the dumps during lockdown.

Robert Fripp loves to tour, and a very loving wife wasn’t having it, and decided to teach him ‘how to dance’. The result is some life-affirming silliness from a very serious King Crimson honcho who has on occasion, been seen in a tutu and rollicking along with a boundless Toyah.

She flashes him during their cover of ZZ Top’s ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and whether he knew it was coming or not, his face a million miles away from the studied elegance of him employing his Frippertronics and stood monolith still while doing Starless.

Let’s look at the two back-to-back for a laugh eh?

So with that, effectively, we’d like to thank Toyah Willcox’s breasts and general attitude. It’s a very English thing to perform and act silly in times of crisis, so yes, we were absolutely looking at her chest, but y’see, we were doing it for our efforts against austerity.

It’s the decent thing to do.