Essays on Boy George

Origins

The New Romantics is a subculture movement that emerged from the working class youths of London. The movement began in the late 1970s and lasted to the later parts of the 1980s. It was associated with a new music wave and unique fashion. The fashion aspect of the movement emerged out of “Billy’s”, a club that was located on Dean Street, London. This nightclub held famous events which were called Bowie and Roxy Music nights. Young people found punk rock unattractive and wanted something different. It is this unique blend of post-punk and fashion that grew into the ...

It has always been innate for people to group themselves together based on a certain attribute, such as life philosophy, religion, lifestyle and the like. Once a group has been formed, the group members itself will establish characteristics that will make them identifiable from the popular crowd, a quality that will make them ‘stand out’, so to speak. The members will then conform their personality, self-image and eventually, identity in order to fit in with these perceived defining qualities. This is the process in which as subculture is formed. With this in mind, a subculture can be defined as ...

Jessica is one of the two Puerto Rican women that are the subject of the book, and her story is most fascinating to me in terms of her attempts to fit into normal relationship contexts. At sixteen, she was already skilled at bringing men to pay attention to her - "You could be talking to her in the middle of the bustle of Tremont and feel as if lovers' confidences were being exchanged beneath a tent of sheets" (LeBlanc 3). She was always fooling around, but she attempted to be the "wife" of a big-time heroin dealer named Boy George. She ...