Pretty girls all gather around to hear your side of things'. The lyrics are, ' You are not the victim, but you'd like to make it that way. "There's this song called 'Lil Red' and there's this part in it that used to be just a segue for from one part to the other. "I had whole new relationships with the songs and that was the thing I was most worried about, that I wouldn't have the same relationship with the songs. "A lot of times in different ways than I connected to them when I was younger. "The lyrics I still connected to so, so deeply," Hanna says. It's not exactly common though to hear an artist acknowledge that a song they wrote years ago now means something different to them. I don't know if it's better for women now than it was 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, because I'm only one person."Īll music is open to interpretation, that's one of the most magical things about it. "I don't know what every woman in a band is going through. Who's asking the guy from Maroon 5 how it feels to be a man in a band? What does it feel like on stage to be a man? He doesn't know. "Like, who's asking whatshisface? I don't even know the guy's name. Like, what's their politics? 'Hey, the status quo is great!' "Of course there's politics, but like… Maroon 5 is political. "I started to get really annoyed that we never get asked about the music and we only get asked about the politics. "Not to brag, but I was like, 'These are good songs'. "I didn't really know how good the songs were until I started playing them," she says. Hanna acknowledges that, for such a kick-arse band, Bikini Kill perhaps don't get the widespread musical kudos they deserve. "Who's asking the guy from Maroon 5 what it's like to be a man in a band?" They were abrasive in the right way, their hooks were deceptively catchy, and the might with which they played made it impossible not to be moved in some way by their work. As Bikini Kill fans know, they're one of the great punk rock bands of the 1990s. Bikini Kill are one of those bands of such genuine importance that many know about their social and political stance without really knowing much about their music.
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