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Old Suicide Girls ended in March 2007.

New Suicide Girls began in April 2007.

What the fuck am I talking about?

HOPEFULS.

The very first Hopeful in SG history appears to have debuted on April 11, 2007.

But before we get to that momentous day, let’s celebrate the great work that was going on that March.

The first set that really blows my mind from...
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2007 was the year of the Hopeful.

From 2001-2006, it appears there was no such thing as “Hopefuls”.

That concept seems to have begun in 2007.

But we will not meet our first-ever hopefuls in this chapter quite yet.

Likewise, 2007 seems to be the year when ASSES started to be all the rage (including on Suicide Girls).

It’s as if a memo went out....
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My 25th EP “401k” (featuring a Bob Dylan cover)—recommended if you like: Felt, Scott Walker, Henryk Górecki, and The Stooges.

File under: pop (adult contemporary)

https://open.spotify.com/album/0gb0hEeNYaC5ISUb1zkYcz?si=IZtb-yu2RSuyz90GvSwSYw

https://music.apple.com/us/album/401k-ep/1693099818

Autumn 2006 was a very strange time for SG. The numbers (likes per set) were OFF THE CHARTS.

For awhile.

October and November saw multi-girl sets sometimes getting 23,000 (!) likes.

Most individual sets approached 10,000 likes.

Yes, you read all that correctly.

I’d say the average number of likes on a set in Oct.-Nov. 2006 was about 7,000 likes.

But then December rolled around....
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Sometimes the best way to move forward is to say, “FUCK IT”.

Yes.

It is good to throw away cliches.

It is good to absolutely throw your formulas in the trash.

So we try another experiment here.

How to make history interesting.

And we go back to August 2006 to see what the girls of SG were up to.

Almost right away, we were greeted...
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As we discussed in the previous chapter, May 2006 was a miraculous month for Suicide Girls. The metrics that are visible to members (such as “likes” on sets) went THROUGH THE ROOF.

What caused this sudden phenomenon where models started getting 10,000 [sic] likes per set? Simply put, I don’t know.

It’s tempting to credit one model, such as @ember (who was doing such great...
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My 57th album “shoofly”—recommended if you like: Cocteau Twins, The Polyphonic Spree, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nirvana, Keren Ann, The Beatles, The Cars, The Zombies, Sparks, LCD Soundsystem, and especially The Flaming Lips.

File under: alternative (indie rock)

https://open.spotify.com/album/58K8pytLv9QY3K8NvNmQtI?si=o3f_hfXWRdmY2ewHOj71fg

https://music.apple.com/us/album/shoofly/1691505945

In any business, there are slow months and rich months.

And then there are those rare months where your business TAKES A GIANT STEP.

Lucky are the businesses which can claim great success.

But Suicide Girls is indeed one of those businesses.

Likewise, we hear it is often darkest just before the dawn.

April 2006 on SG was a bit slow—a bit dark.

There were...
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Let me explain my main purpose in writing this very subjective “history” of Suicide Girls.
It is to LEARN about SG.

I had been on SG for about three years, but when I started looking back into the archives occasionally (out of curiosity) I was amazed to find that I HAD NO IDEA WHO 99% OF THE MODELS WERE.

I had always heard ABOUT Suicide...
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My 24th maxi single “O N Y X”—recommended if you like: Harry Connick Jr., George Gershwin, and Igor Stravinsky.

File under: jazz (cool jazz)

https://open.spotify.com/album/6KLulOHjFxU7iiGPJsTsfe?si=diq79CzFSLmGuGaAu_r_Hw

https://music.apple.com/us/album/o-n-y-x-single/1690828452