Reyna: Thirty years later, the label “riot grrrl” feels fraught in some ways. Wong: But I mean, at the end of the day, our band is just like, whatever we feel like doing, and it’s about having fun and as long as we’re, like, having fun with what we do and we feel like what we’re doing matters then, I guess we’ll just keep going, you know? Like we’re not trying to be riot grrrl or be one particular thing, you know, we just want to be a band that has fun and makes music and makes something that feels important to us. Mila de la Garza: I mean, like Bela said, it’s awesome that people have said that but it is like, I feel like there’s pressure there to live up to… Mila de la Garza & Lucia de la Garza: Yeah. But also it’s like, you know, we want to make sure we’re doing good by it, you know? Salazar: It’s very, very flattering and it’s awesome. Countless magazine articles, tweets and TV talk shows have pointed to the Linda Lindas as a band that is carrying on the riot grrrl legacy. It racked up millions of views and landed the band invites on late night TV and a record deal with the LA punk label Epitaph Records. So this is about him and all the other racist, sexist boys in this world. Eloise and I wrote this song based on that experience. After I told him that I was Chinese, he backed away from me. Mila de la Garza: A little while before we went into lockdown, a boy in my class came up to me and said that his dad told him to stay away from Chinese people. The song was a response to a racist incident recounted by the youngest band member, Mila (MEE-luh) de la Garza. And in 2021, they debuted a new, original song in a performance at the Los Angeles Public Library. Remember, they are teenagers (and at the time three of them were pre-teens). The following year, they opened for Bikini Kill and played a set of cover songs for a crowd of thousands of people at the Hollywood Palladium. Reyna: The Linda Lindas first started playing together in 2018. Tobi Vail: They’re very, almost intimidatingly fierce. Bikini Kill drummer Tobi Vail had high praise for this all-femme band. You can feel it comes from their heart, not something they overthink or want to show off. There’s something really authentic about their approach to music. Reyna: People light up when they talk about the Linda Lindas. I’m 14, yes.įabi Reyna: There’s one band that kept coming up over and over again during our interviews for this podcast. I’m 15 and I also play guitar.Įloise Wong: I’m Eloise and I play bass. I’m 12 and I play drums in the band.īela Salazar: I’m Bela. Special thanks to Jerad Walker, JT Griffith, Polaris Hall, Nathan Fasold and Black Book Guitarsįabi: Just a warning: You’re going to hear the F-word a lot in this episode. Voices in this episode: Musicians Corin Tucker, Tobi Vail and Jasmine Nyende along with Lucia de la Garza, Mila de la Garza, Eloise Wong and Bela Salazar of the Linda Lindas, and scholar and “Girls to the Front” author Sara Marcus. You can listen to the band’s live recordings here. “Board Up” is the only Fuck U Pay Us song available on Spotify.
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