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[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #73 Le Tigre – Get Off The Internet!

Posted on | October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

SONGS OF THE DECADE #73

[For more info, read the Ground Rules of The Song of The Decade List]
Le Tigre – Get Off The Internet! (2000)

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If only we could. Le Tigre’s failure for proper recognition is a tragedy of the riot grrl moment, and to a lesser extent, feminism in general. More than being a feminist, however, Hanna was a political provocateur, so that her first single off the From the Desk of Mr. Lady EP seems especially uncomfortable now (it feels so 80s/or early 90s/ to be political/ where are my friends?) is rather the point. Hanna was also a rather good musician: the theme of this song is featured weekly on the local New York cable show “New York Noise” (without the lyrics, it’s like taking the ibuprofen out of Advil). For radicals, It’s infuriating to think that such a radical polemic could be used to promote bands that are blind enough to completely miss the point. For unforigiving purists, it’s also infuriating to think that Kathleen Hanna, an icon of punk rage, could be married to Adam Horowitz of the Beastie Boys, the writer of “Girls.” But at the end of the day, good music, like good people, prevails. No commoditization and fetishization can beat that, even in a song about exactly that.

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One Response to “[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #73 Le Tigre – Get Off The Internet!”

  1. Courtney Lloyd
    May 19th, 2010 @ 10:42 pm

    ibuprofen is definitely the best OTC painkiller for me. It helps me a lot to deal with my muscular pain.”"‘

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