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Opening track "Deceptacon" references Barry Mann's 1961 single "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" by asking "Who took the Bomp from the Bompalompalomp?". [14] [15] It denounces a decline in meaningful lyrics in rock music. [16] Hanna expressed frustration that riot grrrl had been transformed into icons like the Spice Girls. [17]
Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman collaborated with Russian activists Pussy Riot during a concert organised by Vice magazine in 2014, performing Le Tigre's “Deceptacon”. [23] Later, in 2015, they reunited with Pussy Riot to record a song and video for Netflix series House of Cards .
The song's title is a reference to riot grrrl record label Kill Rock Stars. In response Hanna wrote "Deceptacon", included on Le Tigre's first album , which referred to the NOFX song "Linoleum": "Your lyrics are dumb like a linoleum floor, I'll walk on it, I'll walk all over you".
The band is known for its left-wing sociopolitical lyrics, dealing with issues of feminism and the LGBT community. [1] The band's self-titled debut album was released in October 1999. In 2000, Benning left the group to pursue a career as a film director. [1] They were replaced by JD Samson on Le Tigre's second studio album Feminist Sweepstakes.
Le Tigre's song "Deceptacon" featured the lyrics "Who took the ram from the ramalamadingdong?" The song featured in the title sequence of an episode of Love/Hate "Rama Lama Ding Dong" is parodied as "La canción de la vieja l'visillo" by Spanish comedian José Mota in one episode of his TV show.
Decepticon (possibly misspelled as Deceptacon) is a faction in Transformers. Deceptacon may also refer to: "Deceptacon", a song by Le Tigre from Le Tigre
In this song, Mann sings about the frequent use of nonsense lyrics in doo-wop music, and how his girl fell in love with him after listening to several such songs.. Examples of the type of song referred to include The Marcels' version of "Blue Moon" (in which they sing "Bomp bomp ba bomp, ba bomp ba bomp bomp" and "dip-de-dip-de-dip") [2] and The Edsels' "Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong", both of which ...
Rogers said that on the track "Starstruck" "Goldfrapp's Felt Mountain, The Ipcress File soundtrack and the shadow of Broadcast fall over the first ten seconds of this song about our obsession with celebrity". "Deceptacon" contains a "peculiar set of lyrics, floating on waves of reverb, sad strings and icy keyboards".