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Dream Wife's 'Somebody' Looks To Subvert Glam Rock's Dabbling Femininity

The band Dream Wife began as an art school project designed to explore feminine tropes in pop music — before it became a real band dedicated to doing the very same.
Dream Wife

The real band Dream Wife — a name taken from starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr — began as fake band in an art school project that was a -esque mockumentary. The project was created as a way for Rakel Mjoll to explore femininity and itsthe "fictional" Dream Wife, entered a film competition and won. The prize was performing at a Canadian Music Festival, after which they found themselves touring around that country. And so the art project Dream Wife became the real Dream Wife, creating songs dealing with femininity that look to subvert assumptions within the subject.

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