list of involuntary reactions to the new le tigre 'single'

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this sounds like kathleen hanna put on the "rocked by rape" single and in her usual half-assed feminist punk aesthetic, decided to recreate this. horribly. really fucking horribly.

what is funny is that a major label PAID for this.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Kathleen Hannah thinks SNL is funny

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

hstencil is not the american mark c.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm rereading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep right now. My mom went to school with Philip K. Dick's daughter Laura in Point Reyes, yo. She even went to his house a couple times.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread is like, totally Massengil. That's what ILM is all about: douches and asshatery.

The new Le Tigre single reminds me of that not-gonna-play-Sun-City song. Or a commercial for acne cream or Doritos or something. (Seeing it with the visuals really feels that way). Are they acting dumber on purpose because they're on a major label?

I do like the dresses in the video though, except mine would say "Douches and Asshattery" all over it.

― Sara Sherr, Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Also now is really a terrible time to release it. How about LAST year when there was actually a war to protest? Or maybe even the next war.

― chrisco (chrisco), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah but at least you could sing along to the chorus of sun city!! like, that had a sort of melody! this has a bunch of warmed-over march cliches and those silly 'newswoman' clips

― maura (maura), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

sun city also had the whole "holy shit! joey ramone! now lou reed!" element.

(ironically enough, the show tonight - rather brief - featured an SY/Blonde Redhead type combo)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Le Tigre have been doing the newswoman-sample thing for what, four years now?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link

can we have confirmation that this is the actual Major Label PUSH TRACK for the album? A press release or something? I'm on a crappy dial-up or I'd look for it myself.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link

the best (and worst) I can think to say about is that it's a more polished version of something from that lousy EP they put out between the debut and the last album.

haha the second I start posting something on a board that has nothing to do with me the noisefool contingent blows things apart, how appropriate.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I couldn't read what was written on Le Tigres' dresses and I couldn't figure out why they were playing basketball. The zeitgeist has to be too far gone for the song to be a "new single"; that simply isn't possible.

Overall, it was far too non-threateningly dorky to spill hateorade all over. Still, throughout the video I wanted to see Hanna and co. interact with the gentleman featured in the link below...
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.02/activist-0229.html

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

anthony, the radio station where i volunteer got a 12", and there's a video for the song as well.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

"Let's push our new group by putting out a single that doesn't even feature them singing."

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

"but gosh golly, don't they look cute with those slogany dresses! do you think we could get them to feature amy lee on a track?"

― maura (maura), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

(Maura, check yr mail)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

anthony, the radio station where i volunteer got a 12", and there's a video for the song as well.

then allow me to just say....waaaaah.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm listening to it again (cuz I usually try to abstain from discussion on something until I've heard it twice on non-consecutive occasions) and...this thing just sounds worse and worse and worse and worse and worse

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

This song is hilarious.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, this song is a trainwreck!

― billstevejim, Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

it's ABOUT TIME somebody had the courage and the insight to say "NO WAR!" THAT'LL show 'em. wtf Sheryl Crow had this song on a shirt over a year ago.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

is there really a Defiance, Ohio? I swear they say there is. Herbert?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

"CH CH CHECK IT OUT" IS THE EARLY ART OF NOISE TRACK THAT THE BEASTIES NEVER ADMITTED COVERING.

LE TIGRE'S "PEACE! WAR!" BRINGS BACK THE SA-SA-SA-SA-SAMPLER S-S-S-SAMPLER OF POLI-POLI-POLITICAL AWARENESS-NESS-NESS-NESS!

1985 IZ BACK AND STRONG! SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES!

― PIECE! WORE!, Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link

is there really a Defiance, Ohio? I swear they say there is. Herbert?
-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...), August 19th, 2004.

Le Tigre No Lie and let me introduce you to my good friend Mayor Armstrong.

http://www.cityofdefiance.com/

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link

hey is the "Freedom in this nation" guy Dennis Kucinich? If not, who?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link

well, I'll be!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked being visited by the Wizard of Wor! Can Donkey Kong come next?

Okay, so, finally I now hear this thing.

*listens*

Hahahah. It's Tommy Stone's "People Rocking People" song crossed with a Bugle Boy ad from 1993! This should be the opening credit theme for the world's worst Afterschool Special.

I want to rub this song's face in crunchy underwear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link

my reaction is: this is a waste of a good listen, but at least i won't have to worry about buying their new album

― reo, Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

My spleen? It is vented.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

This song should be called "My Life in the Bush of Kathleen".

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

as this board's most unapologetically devout kathleen hanna fan (and i'll fight anyone who says otherwise!), let me add my voice to the chorus of revulsion.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The most tragic thing about this being the 'push track' isn't even how crap it is compared to the first album, the EP or the second album (all of which I like to a large degree, and I like the self-titled so much it was my number one choice on the ILM Albums of the past five years). The really tragic thing is how good they were at ATP earlier this year, and how amazing their cover of 'I'm So Excited' sounded then. It's on the album, so why not release that? Oh no, a cover version! Of a song with a tune! Note to Kathleen et al: BE MORE POPIST. It will save you.

Or maybe the really tragic thing is how all the criticisms of Le Tigre anyone ever made that were borderline, a little bit harsh or even way out of order, pretty much hold true for this song.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

b-b-but um maybe it's actually some sort of reeeeally subtle self-critique!!

except it's not subtle at all. sigh.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I cannot quite believe this got made.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

1984 - "War is stupid, and people are stupid"

2004 - "Peace! Now! Peace! Now!"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't quite believe, even now, that that Culture Club song actually managed to get to number two - in 1984, moreover, when you had to sell a hell of a lot of records to get to number 42, never mind number two. Did all the George fans buy it blind, or what?

I suspect the Le Tigre single will not get to number two in the charts.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

They should lock up Dubya in the Oval Office and play him this song over and over. He'll do anything to get the hell out of there.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

That's interesting- I didn't know Le Tigre were a Paul Hardcastle tribute band!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't decide what is worse: this thread or the single.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

DID YOU GUYZ SEE THE VIDEO?

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

If anything I haven't been harsh ENOUGH on "Fem Sweeps". This idiotic insulting lesbian wannabe SHIT's turned me prowar, nice fucking work Kathleen

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.rexfeatures.com/features/454841/hi-res/454841l.jpg

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I listened to thee mp3, and my god it is terrible.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Every horrible thing I've ever said about KH is justified by this single.

That said, I still like the Julie Ruin album.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if KH can even tell the diff between her good and her SHITTY recs? I sure love how she's keeping everything SLOW so her idiot 13yrold chick fans can make out her stupid lyrics

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ohhh... i cant beLIEVE i read the whole thing.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I would never, ever let my younger female cousins listen to this bullshit (although, one of them is a huge Beasties fan....)

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

(By which I meant it's awful the way she's doing her best to marginalise herself away from like MUSIC fans and become a sloganeer for the aforementioned kids (not a group I DISLIKE btw) by removing anything that'll distract from her tedious PROWOMYN shit, y'know? The number of Livejournals w/lyrics off "FS" as bios makes me SO SAD AWWWWW)

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep waiting for someone to take the inevitable ILM contrarian position and defend this track, but it keeps not happening.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

There's barely a track to defend. Only heard it once but the rhythm changes were scarily inept/out of time, I think.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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