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Everett True is a British music journalist and supporter of Bikini Kill and many other bands associated with the riot grrrl movement.
While the overall tone of the song suggests this line may be a dig at the critic for being a “colonizer/hanger on”, Vail and True were, and continue to be friendly. In his grunge memoir Live Through This, True writes of the reference:
Future Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail was part of Calvin’s loose collective, The Go Team. When I first visited Olympia in 1989, I recorded a couple tracks with the pair in her parents' house…The drummer didn’t forget our meeting: an early Bikini Kill song ‘Hamster Baby’ (it rhymes with ‘masturbate me’)…I like it. It’s on a par with the (Scots pop disco post-Riot Grrrls) Bis song that compares me to Drew Barrymore while she was still cool"
(Live Through This, p. 75)
You're so different from the rest
Prove you're different from the rest
You're no fucking different from the rest Bikini Kill – Star Bellied Boy
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In Dr. Seuss’s classic story [The Sneeches] concerns the tension between Sneeches whose bellies have stars and the supposedly inferior ones with none upon thar’s.
As the plot unfurls, the specialness and superiority of the star bellied sneeches is revealed to be a crock:
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Not since Juggalos met magnets has something so easily researched caused such lyrical consternation.
Here. We did it for you
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Unclear what or whose “tradition” is being referenced here. “Asia” is only the world’s largest and most populous continent, after all, with well over 40 countries located in the continent.
Conflating completely different countries and cultures through ignorant fetishization?
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More whole than a broken heart The Shondes – Nothing More Whole Than A Broken Heart
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Yeah, Sailor Moon doesn’t really have time for racist, misogynistic losers
Laine