Also examined are her songwriting’s frequent focus upon identity and consumerism the inspiration she provided for other women of color in the punk/new wave scene and her feeling an outsider owing to her mixed-race ancestry. There are also interviews-heard in voiceovers rather than the more standard talking heads-from a wealth of people who knew or were influenced by her. There’s quite a bit of vintage footage, ranging from sharp color to blurry black and white, of Poly in performance. Much of the mystery is unraveled in Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, co-directed by Paul Sng and Styrene’s daughter, Celeste Bell, who supplies much of the narration.

But for many listeners, her interrupted career remained mysterious, as was the woman behind the Poly Styrene pseudonym. There would be comebacks on stage and record, as well as an X-Ray Spex reunion, in the 1990s and early 21 st century before her death at the age of 53 in 2011. Then X-Ray Spex split and after a much more subdued, jazzier 1980 solo LP, Styrene disappeared from the public eye. Only twenty when “Oh! Bondage Up Yours!” was unleashed in late 1977, Styrene burned through the early UK punk explosion with four mid-charting X-Ray Spex singles in the next year and a half, as well as the band’s 1978 album Germfree Adolescents. It’s all part of the same thing, really.” To do with sexual bondage, she was asked? “To do with all bondage,” was her firm reply.

“I was just talking about all forms of bondage, repression, everything else,” explained Styrene at the time in an archival clip featured in the film. As Vivien Goldman, one of the first British rock journalists to cover the punk scene, marvels in the new documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, “That sound cut through a sort of glass ceiling of what women singers could do with their voice.”

As the band launches into the song with fuzzy power chords and careening saxophone, Styrene half-chants and half-sings with a giddy rage that often ascends to a creepy wail.

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