According to the nursery rhyme who 'kissed the girls and made them cry'?
Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry singers, "Yellow Bird" and the English nursery rhyme Georgie Porgie, the latter of which being the origin of the video's title. Birnbaum also uses two contemporary disco songs in this piece, including the band Toto's adaptation of the previous rhyme Georgy Porgy and singer-songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson's Found a Cure. Unlike the other songs, Toto's "Georgy Porgy" is synchronized to the introductory shots, with the music choreographing and animating the movements of the women in the squares. In creating "Kiss The GIrls: Make Them Cry" Birnbaum chose women she considered female stereotypes on "Hollywood Squares", whose careers "had mostly
Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry is a 1979 video art piece by Dara Birnbaum. The piece is constructed of footage recorded from the television game show "Hollywood Squares". The bulk of the piece is made up from recorded introductory gestures of female celebrities participating in that game show, which are synced to then-contemporary disco songs. Like Birnbaum's 1978 video "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman" "Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry" was created via Birnbaum's recording of broadcast television, which consists of a great part of her late 1970s practice The content of the video consists