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Make Me a Real One

from HOUSWIFE by Kela Parker

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The never-ending female self-improvement project; “make me a real one” is a plea to become the "real" (which is actually fake) commercial ideal of femininity or womanhood, which is always to be repackaged and improved upon and never attainable. The sinners and the saints are the whores and virgins, holy oil is all the lotions and potions, the promise of physical perfection in a bottle.

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MAKE ME A REAL ONE


I walk the tightrope
Of the sinners and the saints
And oh this circus
Never comes to an end

Drench me in holy oil
I’ve been waiting to see
What those potions
Could do to me

Make me a real one
Picture perfect
Mirror mirror tell me
If I’m worth it
Make me a real one
Isn’t that the way

My mannequin
She knows some tricks
From the violence in the garden
You can take your pick
And I’ll be your cherry

It’s easy to see
What they’ve done to me
But I can’t help it

Make me a real one
Light as a feather
Mirror, mirror tell me
When I’ll get there
We’ve only just begun
You’re a work in progress
And I’ll be your cherry

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from HOUSWIFE, released October 10, 2011

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Kela Parker Los Angeles, California

"A prepossessing voice" (A&R Factory).

No one sounds quite like Kela Parker. The Los Angeles- based, Portland, Oregon-bred singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist pushes the edges of pop forms with her singular mystic prairie rock, “like folk music, but from a country you’ve never heard of before.” (Destination: Universe!). ... more

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