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

until the NO BLOOD FOR OIL part

As far as this le tigre is concerned, I have access to a recording of Eleanor Roosevelt telling a racist joke about the Japanese while entertaining troops, if we're all curious about what democracy sounds like.

But for the video, hey: they're shootin' hoops, brah!

PLEASE!
I'M DESPERATE!!!

No wonder I loathe it so much.

download

streaming

now for my 2c., awfulness is partly due to an affected earnestness, faux-naif, purposefully artless, etc. approach that le tigre seems to be adopting more and more. I think this also applies to the beasties protest song a while back that was received with equal disdain and horror. (not that it mitigates against their bad-ness, just a hunch on the "why")

a little bit of background for you. not so long ago, straight white middle-class feminists were being criticised by other feminists for claiming to represent women when in fact they were espousing a straight white middle-class perspective on womanhood. Now when a woman supports lesbian politics, its a cromw cos apparently its "co-opting". perhaps some people around here think straight women should go back to their old heterosexist ways??

hey, and having a 16 year old girlfriend, while it might get you a bunch of envy round here, doesn't make your statement about "dumb 13 year old chicks" or whatever any less patronising and hateful.

By the way, I just heard TKO on a Universal sampler I got from the record store where I work and it's much better.

Sara

combat rock!? step aside!

it rolllllllllls, dig it!

As it stands, it's about as subversive as a Rage Against The Machine t-shirt.

oh wait, you meant GIRLS who want to be...never mind...

i don't know anyone who thinks KH is gay, i must be out of the loop. i guess what i meant was that your point seemed to be "you can only sing about 'lesbian stuff' (which KH hardly ever does anyway except as a gesture of support) if you're a lesbian and if you're not you can't be taken seriously," which seems more than a little dubious to me (do you hate DAVID BOWIE?). but i guess you'll just give me one of those "yeah whatever i don't care much PS have i mentioned this song SUCKS?" answers so hey, forget it.

well, i've never banged on about it but....

my opinion of the song has nothing to do with lesbians or kathleen hanna though (i like a lot of le tigre's other stuff). it just sucks.

-- arch Ibog (archibog...), August 20th, 2004.

But that link doesn;t work (for me) using WinXP and IE6.
Where is it here?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/morethanrats/universal2.jpg

Or is it somewhere here?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v360/morethanrats/universal1.jpg

because the scrollbar arrows don't work for me.
I'm bot stupid, I'm using a common browser and I've tried hard to find the video, but I can't. Universal need new web-designers!

Shame. Song's terrible, but I want to see the vid too.

KG

When listening to a KORN track brings you back to some semblance of balance, you know you've been exposed to an awful song. I mean, the simple sloganeering and all don't bother me nearly as much as the feeling that I've heard this song about 500 times since 1988, only it was called "Def Con One"/"Touched By The Hand Of Cicciolina"/"You And Me And Everything"/"Cocaine Sex"/"Psyche-Out"/"World In Motion"/etc.

it sounds like EBN trying to "go positive" - not as bad as people here have been saying, for exactly the reasons Dan points out in his last sentence, but just as bad as a positive-thinking, slow-tempo EBN record would be

i think some "show, don't tell" might be in order here

oh, Nelly!

Also FOR THE RECORD another listen shows that this song is, um, really really embarrassing. It's like they listened to On-U Sound System and said, "You know what would really make this style great? MAKING IT SUCK LIKE VACUUM!"

I am all for facile sloganeering but this doesn't work for me (largely because it is shit). Following it up with Limited Warranty's "The Man In The Can" is giving me great pleasure, though.