Time & Perspective Quote by Brian Molko

Molko’s line lands like a half-joke that refuses to stay harmless. He’s not merely fantasizing about a side project; he’s sketching an escape hatch from a music industry that still treats masculinity as the default setting, especially in rock spaces where “the guys” become both the band and the culture. “I’m tired of being around men all the time” is blunt on purpose: it frames gender imbalance not as an abstract inequality but as sensory exhaustion, a claustrophobia that comes from spending your life in rooms where power, taste, and attention keep circulating among the same bodies.

The proposed band name, Skirt, is a provocation with a wink. It’s weaponized simplicity: one garment standing in for an entire regime of expectations. By placing himself in drag while relegating himself to “backing vocals,” Molko flips the usual hierarchy. The frontman archetype is a rock relic he’s happy to sabotage; the point is to de-center the male voice even when the male body is still present. It’s allyship, but also self-mythmaking: Molko’s persona has long thrived on ambiguity, and he understands that style can be argument.

The “window shopping” detail matters because it drags the fantasy into the everyday. Not a manifesto, a spree. Dresses aren’t symbols in a theory seminar; they’re objects of desire and experimentation. In the late-90s/early-2000s orbit that Molko helped define, gender play was both a genuine search for self and a calculated refusal of rock’s macho script. The charm here is that the refusal sounds impulsive, even giddy - which is exactly how cultural change often begins: not with permission, but with boredom and a new outfit.