Jane Wiedlin: Kissproof World : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Jane Wiedlin has aged fabulously into the grande dame of New Wave art chicks, the once and future Go-Go's guitarist who still has endless get-up-and-go-go of her own some twenty years after she co-wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed." We die-hard Janeheads keep flocking to her solo records like supplicants to a sacred grotto, and she doesn't disappoint with Kissproof World, available on her own indie label from janewiedlin.com. Over a barrage of guitar-heavy power pop, Wiedlin blows blue kisses, pitting middle-age malaise ("Die Now! Pay Later!," "The Good Wife") against middle-age lust ("Drain," "Muse"). Fortunately, lust wins; judging from the shockingly risque‚ CD booklet, Jane's had sex on the brain lately, and you can hear it in the music. Matthew Sweet contributes a lovely harmony to the ballad "He's Not Talking," but Kissproof World is a solo tour de force from an entrepreneur, actress and rock goddess hellbent on smashing her cutie-pie image. Tune in and hear why Jane still has her fans in a lip lock, and why, after all these years, our lips are sealed. (RS 863)

ROB SHEFFIELD