High Fidelity
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“Without people, you’re nothing. That’s my spiel.”
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CNN: What do you make of singers like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Ke$ha who are seemingly touching on themes of gay empowerment in their music, but for some reason it doesn’t quite resonate?
Hanna: I mean, is it really that different when it’s a skinny white woman in a bathing suit singing these things? None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art. I mean, that’s just my feeling about it. A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco, though that first Ke$ha song “TiK ToK” was good. But (Katy Perry’s) “I Kissed a Girl” was just straight-up offensive. The whole thing is like, I kissed a girl so my boyfriend could masturbate about it later. It’s disgusting. It’s exactly every male fantasy of fake lesbian porn. It’s pathetic. And she’s not a good singer. I don’t want to trash other women. I mean, I think Jason Mraz is horrible. It’s not just like I hate other women performers. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the Earth.
— http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/07/kathleen.hanna.documentary/
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I find the fact you’re unkind quite appealing.
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I’m such a loser for taking a photo of this but its Graham Coxon talking about The Smiths so I had to.
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Where did it all go wrong then?
I said this jokingly but I think it’s true: that it was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. I was a teenage girl during Britpop, and you watch the footage of early Blur concerts, and they’re all in Doc Martens and jeans and no make-up, and there’s this brilliant, puppyish, I’m-just-being-a-human-being kind of vibe. Then the Spice Girls come along and it’s like Adam and Eve eating the apple of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase “girl power”, which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends. Is that it? You’re literally going to tell me as a woman that the two things that are good for me are 1) to make me feel I should go back to wearing a very short skirt, and 2) be friends with my girlfriends. And in exchange for that you’re basically going to wipe out feminism for a decade? Thanks!
— http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2011/jun/19/caitlin-moran-feminism-interview
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