What's funny is in some of these comments, people don't comprehend that her "indifference" in this performance is a reflection of the content in the song. We try to define women all the time, through media, work, etc, that it causes this ridiculous identity crisis and that's what she's exploiting (these generational images that are one-dimensional). Her seeming apathy is actually rather passionate, which I think is beautiful. Great freakin song.
'Like' if you rented "Dig Me Out" in '98 from the library and recorded it to MiniDisc and wrote a letter to Sleater-Kinney telling them you were completely in love with them all and offered your willing sexual-prowess even though you were a ridiculous d-baggy dude.
"one for the fans" maybe but I'm not a fan and love it. Seems lots of Sleater Kinney music is bare bones, blood n guts. Carrie just has this very jagged sarcastic/satirical edginess that makes me quiver. I just redescoved this band while googling Portlandia and remembered I loved dancing to some of their songs in my miis spent youth. I've had a ball catching up on their back catalogue on utube.
I think most of these negative comments are coming from very young people. Sleater-Kinney has been around for 20yrs.Their early work had more of a punk sound, and they did not sound like Nirvana. Think Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, etc. They are not "only popular because of Portlandia" and not "only hipsters listen to them." They pre-date both of those things. This particular song is very different from their others. It is purposefully "insipid" to reflect the character's life in the song. And Sleater-Kinney does routinely drop-tune (aka.. still "in-tune") their guitars because there is no bass player, not to "seem more rebellious." If you don't like the song/band, that's cool. But, there are a lot of ignorant posts here.