Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

La Pucelle

And I looked up.
He said,
Jesus is in your mouth.
He said it,
and I complied.

And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go
out to meet him! Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.

Oh, genuflect for Jesus
Bend in bliss
Each rug burn ( He teaches )
A Christ-cherry kiss

Oh come, loved ones, with Him reside
Let us all be Christian brides !
With one mind we cannot falter
Faith divine lies at the altar

Where we, His connubial congregation,
tender holy vestal oblations;
Seek we not in vain his approbation -
The gloriole: His vow of conjugation !

His band of gold, a bond of liberation -
Hymeneals be sung with exaltation !

Oh chaste ones, let us unite
and kneel
His rod invites
Our God is real


"When it comes to complete and utterly wonderful depravity,few have ever dropped their drawers,exposed every orifice and let out a lustful holler with as much panache as Miss Tammy Faye Starlite, whose self-released EP, On My Knees, sets a new standard for countrified carnality."

-- Robert Baird, Magnet

"You don't want to miss her one-of-a-kind act on this EP....Then again, those who are devout in their religion or their country music may be offended by the humor of the musicianaries therein...blasphemous to some, hilarious to many...musically, it's all a hot hoot,with Starlite's passionate vocalls backed by the deft playing of her Angels of Mercy...Miss Starlite, the liner notes conclude,is obviously excited by her current comeback effort-and you should be, too, if you need a good, long, musical/topical laugh."

-- ***** (4 stars). Ken Richardson, Stereo Review's Sound & Vision

"When she shaves for her man, Miss Starlite doesn't stop with her legs. And in between matter-of-fact maunderings about her sexual misadventures and the peccadilloes of the Nashville luminaries she's long walked among, she'll also feature the anti-abortion classic,God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus."

-- Robert Christgau, Village Voice

"Miss Tammy Faye Starlite...Sort of a Pia Zadoable look-alike who pulls off an alter ego possessed by Tammy Wynette, Jesus Christ and Wild Turkey...turned Cheap Trick's Surrender into a Bible-thumping rapturous hymn....and brought new meaning to Bible passages, such as when he comes, he will come. Tammy Faye's brilliant Did I Shave My Vagina For This? brought the house down, especially when she wiped away a tear while singing, it's Saturday night, and I'm watching the tube, while he goes off to shave another girls pubes. All in the key of D - for divine ! Jesus would have loved it, before he sent her straight to hell. See ya there!"

-- Libby Molyneaux, L.A. Weekly

"New York actress and performance artist Tammy Lang is country's Lenny Bruce...That Lang is, au fond, a genuine country fan is obvious from the razor-sharp precision with which she lampoons the sanctimonious intersection between country and Christianity....Sadly, there are only six tracks, including a hidden and even funnier version of God Has Lodged a Tenant In My Uterus....Evil, twisted, sick and totally wonderful."

-- **** (4 stars )John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music

"Bleached-blond,stiletto-heeled,and pregnant with her third child in at least a month, Tammy Faye Starlite represents the Blue Angel Cabaret at its very best...The way she brilliantly mines country music subtexts...it's hard to tell if Tammy's straight outta Nashville or a whiteness studies graduate seminar."

-- Jeff Howe, The Village Voice

"A bunch of cowboys wander into a honky-tonk,listen for a while to the band onstage,decide they like what they hear-as evinced by hollered reqests for that song about the vagina.Hey, it could happen,and it pretty much did at the Opryland Hotel,when the singer known as Tammy Faye Starlite warbled the jaw-dropping God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus."

-- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene

"There is a woman named Tammy Lang in New York City who occasionally comes to Music City to perform her lewd versions of country hits...her Tammy Faye Starlite character is,um,different enough to earn her a DISCovery award...the six-song CD is strung together like a a twisted moderne radio barn dance with a cast of naughty trailer-park bizarros. She plays The End in Nashville on August 13th. Be there."

-- Robert K. Oermann, Music Row

"Screamingly funny."

-- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene

"OK, so maybe her incest routines and topical humor about how it’s really the Christians who deserve Jerusalem mean she’s best understood as performance art. Maybe the country songs and musicians are mere environment for the monologues. In that case, call her my Karen Finley."

--Robert Christgau