2 hours, 11 minutes (audio only version)
2 hours, 52 minutes (Patreon exclusive version)
Released: May 8, 2022
Recorded: February 18, 2022
Hazel Tart aka Creasetoefurr aka Chris is a podcaster and Twitch streamer with roots with White Elephant Burlesque’s Rockbar residency. They and Viktor catch up on old times while talking Hazel’s backstory thru to today. Expect fun songs, heady discussion, nostalgia, catharsis, and misrembering which Lady Gaga performance was which.
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“It’s Killing Me” by DC Talk
Hazel says: “They were a Christian band back in the late 90s. They were the first musical performance that I ever saw live… Until like senior year of high school, I had been to one concert in my life and that was a DC Talk concert… They were very contemporary alt pop rockish, with somerap thrown in there. They were trying to do a lot of things at once… I would equate it to going to any mainstream rock group’s concert, but then throw in a lot of Jesus hand raising and amen type of stuff while they are jamming out. It was a really interesting mix.“
“Save Ginny Weasley” by Harry And the Potters
Hazel says: “This falls very neatly under the category of entertainment that I was sneaking and hiding [from my parents] during that time. Harry Potter was not allowed at all because of witchcraft obviously, but my aunt loved the books. And so when I would go over to her house, I would read some of it. And when I got a little bit bolder… I would sneak a Harry Potter book home, hide it under the mattress, and then I would bring it into the bathroom with me and read it on the toilet or when I was supposed to be taking a shower…I learned [about Wizard Rock] from other Harry Potter fans when I was in high shool…and it started with a band called Harry and the Potters who I chose. This was the very first Wizard Rock song I ever heard and these were the subsequent concerts I would sneak out to.”
“Escape from the City” from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Hazel says: “1, I loved this song as a kid from Sonic Adventures 2 on the GameCube. 2, this was one of the songs on a playlist of music that was played for me when I was physically intimate with a man for the first time. It was the summer before I went off to college and I was visiting my high school best friend who had since moved to Virginia and she had a friend who I thought was really cool. He never wore shoes, he had long hair back in a pony tail… but we went over to his house and he played me his nerdy music and this song was on that playlist and we bonded over it. And then it was a blow job to a remix of the Tetris theme song.
“Year of Living Dangerously” from Scissor Sisters
Hazel says: “When I got to New York, I couldn’t bring myself to audition so I just threw myself to whatever came my way and said yes to everything. I went from handing out flyers outside of a sports gym on Park Avenue, to walking dogs, to being the office manager for that dog walking place. That is also when I met Petra Fried during that period. I said yes to everything and just wanted to see what life could bring me. And that’s why I picked [this song.]”
“Fierce” by Azealia Banks
Hazel says: “I became so much more involved in the queer community in New York and night life. I started doing drag. It was a lot. It was amazing and it was life changing and it was inspiring, but at the same time looking back on it, I didn’t really know myself well enough yet… I was exposed to so much new music through drag. So many new people… I picked this next song because it was an artist who I learned about during that time, fell in love with during that time, and then turned out to be super fucking problematic not long after… I feel like this is a good representation of that period in my life where I was thrown into this new world that I had not experienced….I don’t know if I was going to fit in, but I sure as hell was gonna try because it was fun.”
“Heart Attack” / “I Knew You Were Trouble” by Demi Lovato / Taylor Swift
Hazel says: “I picked this one because the things that really resonated with me in drag is that I really love story telling and turning a song on its head . And I think a lot of that is because most of the songs I didn’t know. So it was fun to bring something to the table that was familiar to the audience but that they also didn’t know so I didn’t feel like I was the back of the pack. This was one of [my and Petra Fried’s] favorite duets to do….It’s called I Knew You Had a Heart Attack and it is a mashup of I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift and Heart Attack by Demi Lovato… We ate the scenery more and more every time.”
“Telephone” / “Dance In The Dark” (live)
Hazel says: “I had to include something Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga was my first pop diva that I fell in love with… So I picked this song because I feel like this song exemplifies my and Lady Gaga love of twisting songs around and thinking about them differently. This performance really exemplifies that later Hazel Tart… Emotionally I was really spiraling as a person. I really had to fight to hide my depression from everybody… I just wanted to hold to that magic era at Rockbar. I wasn’t ready to set that aside to deal with Chris’ life, and wanted to live in Hazel’s world a bit more.”
“Be Wherever You Are” from Steven Universe
Hazel says: “This is a song from the Steven Universe TV show. That show was so impactful for me during that time when I was really just trying to keep it together. Just keep some kind if facade up of an adult human who was ok. Steven Universe is a show about a kid with a lot of feelings who has to talk through them with a lot of people. It’s a very queer and emotionally intelligent and deep show… I performed in Ms. Nerd New York… and the last time I competed, I felt I had really brought my best… I thought that was the year I was finally going to win. And I didn’t mind as much if I didn’t, but a lot of people came out to support me that year… and then I came in second place… That was the first time a competition broke me. It wasn’t because I was beaten by somebody else… I felt that I was not enough to be the person that my friends were expecting me to be…I was trying to be somebody I thought other people wanted me to be which wasn’t the case. They just liked me for actually me. And that was something that I wasn’t ready to learn yet…This song in particular ended up coming onto the music I was listening to [that night] and I listened to this song on repeat for a good 45 minutes. It was a very healing song for me that night.”
“Sloppy Seconds” by Watsky
Hazel says: “This is a song from the Steven Universe TV show. That show was so impactful for me during that time when I was really just trying to keep it together. Just keep some kind if facade up of an adult human who was ok. Steven Universe is a show about a kid with a lot of feelings who has to talk through them with a lot of people. It’s a very queer and emotionally intelligent and deep show… I performed in Ms. Nerd New York… and the last time I competed, I felt I had really brought my best… I thought that was the year I was finally going to win. And I didn’t mind as much if I didn’t, but a lot of people came out to support me that year… and then I came in second place… That was the first time a competition broke me. It wasn’t because I was beaten by somebody else… I felt that I was not enough to be the person that my friends were expecting me to be… I was trying to be somebody I thought other people wanted me to be which wasn’t the case. They just liked me for actually me. And that was something that I wasn’t ready to learn yet… This song in particular ended up coming onto the music I was listening to [that night] and I listened to this song on repeat for a good 45 minutes. It was a very healing song for me that night.“
“Raising Hell” by Kesha feat. Big Freedia
Hazel says: “I chose this as a full circle moment. Bringing it back to where we started and connecting sort of the intent of Watsky’s Sloppy Seconds and bringing it to a more well rounded place… I’m coming out of the phase of my life where I’m just trying to survive and not want to die, and instead coming to a place where I’m ok pretty consistently and I’m finding little joys in creating things again… in a healthier less performance way… Bringing more of myself in the things I create… I fell on this song because I felt it closed the loop from DC Talk Christian music right up into Watsky’s Sloppy Seconds.”
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