Le Tigre Return With Pro-Hillary Clinton Song “I’m With Her” & The Internet Is Kind Of Over It

Robbie Daw | October 20, 2016 3:48 pm

Le Tigre were the stuff of turn-of-the-millennium dreams, a feminist synth-pop/punk band whose catchy songs were as flashy as their politics and advocacy was fierce. After three albums they went out on top, following major label 2004 LP This Island, which gave us the rowdy, timeless bop-and-shuffle of “TKO” and “After Dark.” Exactly why Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and JD Samson never properly put out new music again, who knows?

Well, wait a minute, though — let’s not speak to soon. Because last month Hanna announced that the trio were back in the studio working on a new cut. The fruits of that labor arrived this week in the form of “I’m With Her,” a song and music video project — done in collaboration with video artist Laura Parnes and the coalition Filmmakers For Hillary — that is, as you might guess, a politically-themed, pro-Hillary Clinton anthem.

“The energy of ‘I’m With Her’ is a reminder that Le Tigre never totally went away,” Pitchfork wrote this week. “Their songs have remained feminist anthems, and each member has been an outspoken voice in the struggle for equality.”

SPIN was a little more wink-wink with their praise, noting, “The Hillary Clinton campaign is now also notable for the reunion of Le Tigre. Because nothing is more punk than political endorsement, the trio has returned with ‘I’m With Her’…”

BUST also enthused, “The video is an ode to powerful women, Hillary Clinton, and of course, cats (come on, it’s Le Tigre!)”

Still, not all corners of the World Wide Web were thrilled with the trio’s choice of music for their return. Slate staffer Christina Cauterucci called “I’m With Her” a “sorry, deflated version of the Le Tigre that informed my feminist awakening.” She goes on to add, “It’s sad that Clinton’s opposing candidate is so profoundly offensive that he’s spurred a seminal feminist band to record an unenthusiastic election tune that’s just a few notches cooler than that soul-splitting, Glee-ified version of Rachel-Platten’s ‘Fight Song’ the DNC produced against any urges toward decency.”

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And that’s just the websites. If anything, the track is proving for some to be as polarizing as the very presidential candidate it endorses. Below, see a roundup of mixed Twitter reactions to Le Tigre’s first new song in 12 years, “I’m With Her.”

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