I initially misheard the lines as "I'm a hot retard!" "Marquis de Sade!"Like an iD fashion spread turned to music Only in the UK could such flimsy nonsense prosper and become Successful PopBut Haysi Fantayzee had two fun hit singles - this one and "John Wayne Is Big Leggy" (is that a penile innuendo?)And there's something about the brazen McLaren-copyism that is likeable. Fake-folk. Nostalgy de boo. Hip-to-be-square-dancing. The lisping feebleness of Kate Garner's voice is sort of endearingThey are better than Wide Boy Awake, at any rate. In my Rip It Up researching, did I listen all the way through Battle Hymns for Children Singing? I don't think so.Kate Is Big Leggy, if anybody is round here. Certainly worked those gams at every opportunity, Whereas pint-sized Jeremy Healey is a sort of Bolan-esque goblin crossed with Dickensian urchin. The Artschool Dodger.Apparently he went as Jeremiah Healey at one point.Wait, there's more - two less successful singlesFirst is imitative of Duck…
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