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Try to resist me now, Darren.
[loud rock music]
This isn't a free show, buddy.
My name's Janessa Slater, and I'm a media coach who's helped hundreds of fans.
This is Sound Advice.
So Carrie, my hair person recognized you
because she said you're on a show called Portlandia.
Now, did you all meet because you are all in low-budget TV shows that I've never seen?
(Carrie) Corin and I met in college. That's when we started this band.
(Janessa) And so was one of the original members Susan B. Anthony?
(Carrie) I think she was deceased by then.
(Janessa) And that is sad for all women that she's no longer with us.
But we carry her message.
Be a girl. Get dressed up. Look pretty, you know?
Guys are running this place, but we can do stuff too.
And for every monster truck and every Lamborghini, or whatever,
there's also a flower shop.
In her world, just little riot grrls, you know?
(Carrie) I feel like your understanding of riot girl is vague at best.
(Janessa) And what is it?
So it was the movement of activists
who did events, played music, made art to talk about violence against women.
(Janessa) And how men need to, like, treat women nicely. Right?
Treat them to dinners, you know?
That can be part of it. Yeah.
(Janessa) I'm going to get you the lobster dinner, and I don't expect anything back, you know?
Except maybe a little smooch and an extra long hug.
I'm a feminist.
Okay, so now I'm gonna read some lyrics from the title track
of your new album, No Cities to Love,
and give you some feedback.
"Atomic tourist, a life in search of power.
I found my test site. I made a ritual of emptiness."
I'm sorry. I must have accidentally grabbed the diary of an angsty, preteen girl
because there's no way an adult could write this garbage.
Right? Did you write it when you were smoking behind the shopping center?
Did you guys get that assignment for English?
They want us to write a 3-page paper about that book.
The book sucks. That's you guys.
(Carrie) Definitely.
(Janessa) So as an all-girl band, how many mysteries have you solved?
Many? >>(Janessa)This seems like a Nancy Drew kind of team.
We did actually set up a sting at one of our concerts. >>Really?
Oh, that's right. We caught, like, a real bad guy, a flasher.
He flashed riot grrls.
(Janessa) Now, along the same lines, do you feel like if a woman were to flash, like—
I don't know—her ex-husband when he's at dinner with his new girlfriend,
like, is that also a crime? It's not, right?
(Carrie) I think indecent exposure is a crime.
(Janessa) But like, what if it's like not indecent because it's, like, he's seen me that way before?
(Carrie) But I think if you're in public, then it's considered indecent.
And if it was at his house, then it was harassment.
(Janessa) Okay, well, I thought this was Sleater-Kinney,
but it's Judge Judy.
(as Judge Judy) If I were you, I'd get out of the court right now.
And two months in prison.
And you're an idiot.
(Carrie) Is that your ex-husband? >>That's Judge Judy.
I mean, one of my favorite bands of all time is an all-girl band.
(Carrie) Usually we don't put the modifier in front of the word band.
You wouldn't call them, like, a male band.
(Carrie) Like if you were interviewing U2.
(Janessa) Oh, I wish I was interviewing U2.
They are, like, my favorite man band and love the Joseph Tree.
It's the Joshua Tree—Joshua.
(Janessa) It's Joseph Tree. I'm pretty sure.
I just feel like if you want to sell tickets—don't you wan to— >>Play good music.
—play good music that's done by, like, you know, hot chicks.
And if Susan B. Anthony was here right now,
I think she would say,
you know, "Use it or lose it."
But she's not, and we miss you S.B.A.
[Laughter]
Take that, misogynists everywhere.
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