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“Prom,” which comes as a taster and teaser for Casavelly’s latest album, the poignantly titled Meditation Through Gunfire, is one of those rare musical beasts. This song crosses genres and generations and does so effortlessly. A bit like Toni Basil’s “Mickey” or the punk poetry-as-song of Patti Smith, Prom is a cross between a pop song and a rabble-rousing chant, part entertainment, part agitation, an attack on the mainstream and a chance to turn the power of its popular outlets to the artists will.
If you want to categorize this as merely pop, although I think that such a tag hardly does justice to what is going on below the surface, then it is pop in the same way that the likes of Fiona Apple, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos are—poised pop, progressive pop, pop with purpose.
Driven by the same tribal rhythms that fired punk subversives Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” into the popular consciousness, “Prom” takes the, perhaps, cliched images of the prom and turns them into a rallying cry for female empowerment. This, it says, is not us merely following tradition; this is a woman making her mark, a social ritual that says, “I am in the world now, deal with it,” a rite of passage, a point of transition. But that is what the most creative of creatives do; they take the normal and turn it on its head and then sell the idea back to an unsuspecting world.
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