Hot Topic (Song)
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Hot Topic is a song from the debut album of feminist electro-punk trio Le Tigre. The song pays tribute to dozens of female visual artists, musicians, writers, feminists and others who have inspired them.
[edit] Information
The single was release on 7" and Maxi-CD in 1999 by Wiiija Records.
- Hot Topic
- Hot Topic (41 Small Stars Remix)
- Yr Critique
- They Want Us To Make A Symphony Out Of The Sound Of Women Swallowing Their Own Tongues
[edit] List of inspirations
- Carol Rama: erotic artist
- Eleanor Antin: performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist
- Yoko Ono: Japanese artist and musician
- Carolee Schneeman: American performance artist
- Gretchen Phillips: American singer-songwriter and musician
- Cibo Matto: New York City-based band formed by Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori
- Leslie Feinberg: transgender activist, speaker, and author
- Faith Ringgold: African-American artist and author
- Mr. Lady: San-Francisco-based Lesbian-Feminist independent record label and video art distributor
- Laura Cottingham: art critic
- Mab Segrest: American feminist writer and activist
- The Butchies: Lesbian-Feminist band made up of Kaia Wilson, Allison Martlew, and Melissa York
- Tammy Rae Carland: zine editor, artist, filmmaker, and owner of Mr. Lady Records
- Sleater-Kinney: indie rock band
- Vivienne Dick: Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker
- Lorraine O'Grady: African-American performance artist and photographer
- Gayatri Spivak: Indian literary critic and theorist
- Angela Davis: American socialist organizer and professor
- Laurie Weeks: writer and performer
- Dorothy Allison: American lesbian writer and speaker
- Gertrude Stein: American writer
- Marlon Riggs: African-American poet, educator, filmmaker, and gay rights activist
- Billie Jean King: retired tennis player
- Ut: No Wave band
- DJ Cuttin Candy
- David Wojnarowicz: gay painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist
- Melissa York: rock drummer, former member of The Butchies
- Nina Simone: American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist
- Ann Peebles: internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter
- Tammy Hart
- The Slits: post-punk band
- Hanin Elias: German industrial/techno artist and former member of Atari Teenage Riot
- Hazel Dickens: American bluegrass singer
- Cathy Sissler: American musician, writer, and touring performance artist
- Shirley Muldowney: first female NHRA-licensed drag racer
- Urvashi Vaid: American LGBT civil rights activist
- Valie Export: Austrian artist
- Cathy Opie: North American photographer
- James Baldwin: American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and civil rights activist
- Diane DiMassa: American feminist author and cartoonist
- Aretha Franklin: American singer, songwriter, and pianist
- Joan Jett: American rock guitarist, singer, producer, and actress
- Mia X: female rapper
- Krystal Wakem: Tammy Rae Carland's niece
- Kara Walker: contemporary American artist
- Justin Bond: queer performer, best known as Kiki of Kiki and Herb
- Bridget Irish: American performance artist, lesbian feminist, and Marxist
- Juliana Lueking: spoken word artist
- Cecilia Dougherty: filmmaker
- Ariel Schrag: American cartonist
- The Need: queercore band
- Vaginal Creme Davis: drag queen, performance artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer
- Alice Gerard: journalist and peace activist
- Billy Tipton: American jazz pianist and saxophonist
- Julie Doucet: Canadian underground cartoonist and artist
- Yayoi Kusama: Japanese artist
- Eileen Myles: American poet
[edit] References
HOT TOPIC (lyrics). 2008-01-10. URL:http://www.letigreworld.com/sweepstakes/html_site/song/hotopic.html. Accessed: 2008-01-10. (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/5UkOhcizm)
