When she traced ancestry, it was indigenous Wanaruah clan who roamed Kurri Kurri for centuries. Now, after rejection by a Nashville label, she boomerangs on a raunchy disc produced by Olympian distance runner Paul Greene and Matt Fell.
Kirsty also toughened imagery – not just a nude forest cover but eight earthy originals.
Let’s start at fiery finale That’s How You Get Famous, penned with Melody Pool.
“Screw everyone in the industry/ throw up my food to make me real skinny/ jump on the alcoholic bandwagon.”
If you haven’t sunk in a wine house, try “I’ll make my own dirty video, walk around naked like a skanky ho/there’s no doubt I’ll have the most views/ when I post me kissing Taylor Swift on YouTube.”
Akers parodies domestic abuse in Where The Lonely’s Found, jezebels in Blackbird, sin in The Axe Song, jailbreak in Sweet Ol’ Jackson and buckle bunnies in It Gets To Me.
There’s also river redemption in Dirty Farmer’s Daughter and temptation in Satan’s Game.
Best Track : That’s How You Get Famous
If You Dig This, You’ll Dig : Love Slave MARSHALL CHAPMAN
In A Word: Sensual-swampy-swagger.
