The Dolls chuck the mascara but keep their glam-rock swagger
'Cause I Sez So is
true to the album's title—cocky, purposefully cretinous and rude as
hell. Lead vocalist David Johansen snarls and roars through the album.
Even seemingly mellow songs, like the bluesy ambush "Better Than You,"
get the Dolls' trademark screw-you spin: "My baby, don't talk nasty
about her / You don't even got no class / I'm gonna kick your ass,"
Johanson sings in a lilting, taunting, parodic way. And besides the
awkward reggae treatment laid thick on their revisioned classic,
"Trash," the Dolls have a record that proves they still kick ass...
high heels or not.