Hot Topic (song)

"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.

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

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

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)