The Prayer Bears [1970]

“Hyper-passionate songs swollen with lurid imagery. Provocative lyrics peppered with wry observations about sexual politics. Discursive song structures whose unpredictable twists and turns undermine phallocentric songwriting norms. Had I been born with ovaries, perhaps I, too, would be enchanted by the relentless whimsy of Tessa Baskin’s music.”

- Music critic Byron Jenkowitz on the music of ~pianogirl~

In 1978 members of the ascendant Moral Majority picketed the studio where the Spooky Bunch cartoons were produced. Their signs read “Keep Saturday Morning Faggot Free” and “Satan Loves the Spooky Bunch.”