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Anni Piper: Men Are Like Potato Chips

by Ron Kalb
August 23, 2026

Anni Piper's June 2026 release Men Are Like Potato Chips, on Sugar Daddy Records, carries a camp, risqué swagger and a sultry persona that may initially register as pure provocation. Yet, as author-activist Angela Davis noted in her study of early blues women, sexual candor has long served as a means for performers to assert narrative control and define their own musical agency. Sophie Tucker's Red Hot Mama act offers a parallel lineage in which bawdy humor ...