Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Le Tigre meet Christina Aguilera

So keen were Le Tigre to write for Christina they came out of hiatus to do so.

Yes, that Le Tigre; yes, that Christina Aguilera.

Apparently, what would expect to be a gulf between the two sides politically can be quite easily bridged:

"[We] found a ton of common ground in our aim to make upbeat danceable tracks celebrating female friendship, strength, and of course, PARTYING," [Johanna] Fateman said. "For a feminist band obsessed with pop music, it was pretty much a dream come true."[

Hmm. Yes, there's clearly common ground - although much of Aguilera's after school movie emoting has sounded more talking point than heartfelt belief - but isn't the central message of Aguilera's career curve been about how you can sell a lot, lot more records if you take your pants off for a Maxim cover or two? Isn't there even a discussion to be had there rather than just going "woo - we all like to PARTY"?

I could very well be wrong - but what's disappointing is that Le Tigre don't even seem to want to tell me why I'm wrong.


4 comments:

Daniel said...

Long live schmindieness!...

Sarah Ditum said...

This is MEGA EXCITING. The 65days mash up of Dirty came up on shuffle the other day and reminded me what a massively thrilling pop roarer Christina is. Besides, Hanna has always been pretty pro the aggressively sexual statement - Genie In A Bottle is practically the same message as I Like Fucking. Sort of.

Simon Hayes Budgen said...

That last point, I concede.

Melanie Taylor said...

i think it will be really cool. i've always thought of christina as a feminist and le tigre has always tried to be pop. so here we go....Xtina the Riot Grrrl...whoa

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