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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFiona Apple's New Anti-Trump Song "Tiny Hands" Is the Perfect Women's March Chant (audio)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/01/18/listen_to_fiona_apple_s_new_anti_trump_song_tiny_hands.htmlFiona Apple doesnt much care for Donald Trump. The notably private singer-songwriter hasnt released a new album since 2012, but she returned to the spotlight with her fiery Christmas song Trumps Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire,
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And now, just ahead of the Womens March on Washington, Apple has unveiled Tiny Handsanother powerful song of resistance.
Referencing that infamous Access Hollywood videotape, in which Trump boasts about having committed sexual assault, Apple repeats with conviction We dont want your tiny hands/ Anywhere near our underpants. Its probably not the cleanest song youll find at the march on Saturday, but its deft mix of humor and pointedness is certainly effective and perfect for chanting alongside one's allies. And if Apples performance history is any indication, her live rendition could end with the kind of cathartic pushback that many at the march and beyond have been waiting for.
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And now, just ahead of the Womens March on Washington, Apple has unveiled Tiny Handsanother powerful song of resistance.
Referencing that infamous Access Hollywood videotape, in which Trump boasts about having committed sexual assault, Apple repeats with conviction We dont want your tiny hands/ Anywhere near our underpants. Its probably not the cleanest song youll find at the march on Saturday, but its deft mix of humor and pointedness is certainly effective and perfect for chanting alongside one's allies. And if Apples performance history is any indication, her live rendition could end with the kind of cathartic pushback that many at the march and beyond have been waiting for.
Audio at the link.
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Fiona Apple's New Anti-Trump Song "Tiny Hands" Is the Perfect Women's March Chant (audio) (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2017
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frazzled
(18,402 posts)1. Ha! Best chant ever
Sorry, but that is funny. Not exactly of the "if they go low, we go high" order, but the sentiment is real!
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)2. I love it and hope they pick it up-loud and clear
"Tiny Hands" lead my twisted mind to Don Ho's "Tiny Bubbles" and with apologies to Mr. Ho here is a theme song for the royal 'Rump.
Tiny handsess
on the phone
make me happy
make me tweet so fine.
Tiny handsess
Make them warm
feeling up the skirts
I Love me, Im so fine
So heres to the golden loon
and heres to the gilded me
and mostly heres a toast
to Putin and to me.
demmiblue
(36,855 posts)3. For those who want to listen here:
This also goes out to all the other arseholes who want to limit a woman's autonomy over her own body!
progressoid
(49,991 posts)5. THANKS!!!
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)4. I LOVE it!
My husband was just dancing around the kitchen singing along! LOL! He loved it too.