Tiny hands
| Tiny hands | |
|---|---|
| Michael Whalen feat. Fiona Apple | |
| publication | 17th January 2017 |
| length | 1:02 |
| Genre (s) | art pop |
| text | Fiona Apple |
| music | Michael Whalen |
Tiny Hands ( English "tiny hands", full title Tiny Hands Women's March Chant ) is a song by the US singer-songwriter Fiona Apple . She wrote it for the Women's March on Washington in response to a recording of misogynous statements made by the Republican presidential candidate and later US President Donald Trump , which became known in October 2016 .
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The text of the one-minute chant consists of only ten words that form a simple rhyme and are repeated eight times in a mantra-like manner to a concise beat :
We don't want your tiny hands / anywhere near our underpants.
" We don't want your tiny hands near our underwear ."
The track also contains a sample of Donald Trump's notorious sayings “Grab 'em by the pussy” and “You can do anything”. These were created in 2005 in the course of a conversation with presenter Billy Bush , which only came to the public in October 2016 in the middle of the presidential election campaign . The sound recording, which went down in the annals under the name Pussygate , went viral and cemented Trump's media reputation as misogynous .
Apple, a rape victim as a child, less publicity , penned the song in January 2017 in view of the Women's March on Washington , held just one day after Donald Trump was inaugurated . After she had recorded the vocal track in a short time with her cell phone , producer Michael Whalen alias m-Dub packed it together with piano and percussion parts in a catchy mix and published the result on the website of the music service SoundCloud . A music video was not produced.
background
Donald Trump's hands or fingers were first discussed in 1988 by a journalist who, to his annoyance, described the real estate mogul as a “short-fingered vulgarian”. The epithet of the little hands has persisted ever since and was picked up again by Senator Marco Rubio in the 2016 primary campaign . Trump allowed himself to react in front of the camera by holding both hands in the picture and saying: “Look at those hands. Are they small hands? ”The media coverage, which sometimes took on burlesque traits, reached its climax in a contribution by the Hollywood Reporter , who, based on a print in New York's Madame Tussauds, attested that Trump actually had above-average hands and provided a copy with his right hand posed. BuzzFeed even released a font called Tiny Hand , which is based on Donald Trump's handwriting.
Fiona Apple had already drawn attention in December 2016 with a rewrite of Mel Tormé's and Robert Wells' Christmas classic The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) . During a benefit concert for the Standing Rock Reservation , she performed her version titled Trump's Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire . Tiny Hands is just one of a whole series of anti-Trump songs that were written in the final of the presidential election campaign and in the period before his swearing-in and were published as part of the playlist projects 30 Days, 30 Songs and Our First 100 Days .
reception
Although it was published without commercial intent, the song was a success not least because of millions of shares in the run-up to the women's marches. Carrie Battan from the New Yorker called the number "blunt and infectious" and said that Trump was the "bully" who woke the "patroness of the wounded" from her hibernation. Unlike Trump, whose words in the song worked like a “stick”, Apple sounds “quiet, calm and resolute”. However, both have the "direct and contagious" in common, whereby the musician's lyrics were ultimately designed to be shouted by thousands of women demonstrating. The Rolling Stone called the sampling of Donald Trump's original words "clever" and described the song as one of the strongest anti-Trump protest songs.
The song polarized in the online media. While the text did not go far enough for some commentators, others were indignant at the derogatory and degrading language used by the future president. Producer Michael Whalen countered that Fiona Apple only intended to create a chant for the Women's March. A request for comment from the New York Times to a Trump spokeswoman went unanswered.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Gil Kaufman: Fiona Apple Debuts Anti-Trump Song 'Tiny Hands' in Honor of Women's March. Billboard , January 18, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Jonathan Freedland : Donald Trump is a vile misogynist - but he's not the only one. The Guardian , October 21, 2016, accessed May 1, 2017 .
- ^ Libby Nelson: Donald Trump's history of misogyny, sexism, and harassment: a comprehensive review. Vox , October 12, 2016, accessed May 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Chris Heath: Fiona: The Caged Bird Sings. Rolling Stone , January 22, 1998, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ^ A b Jonah Engel Bromwich: Fiona Apple Releases a Trump Protest Chant. The New York Times , January 18, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Bruce Feirstein: Trump's Wars on “Losers”: The Early Years. Vanity Fair , August 12, 2015, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ^ Nate Hopper: Why You Shouldn't Laugh at Donald Trump's Hands. Time , October 20, 2016, accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Benjamin Svetkey: Revealed at Madame Tussauds: Donald Trump's Actual Hand Size. The Hollywood Reporter , March 8, 2016, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Evan Minsker & Jazz Monroe: Watch Fiona Apple Perform “Trump's Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire” at Standing Rock Benefit. Pitchfork , December 19, 2016, accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Ryan Reed: Watch Fiona Apple Yell 'Donald Trump, F - k You' at Standing Rock Benefit. Rolling Stone , December 19, 2017, accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Carrie Battan: Listen to "Tiny Hands", Fiona Apple's Anti-Trump Protest Song. The New Yorker , January 18, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Jon Dolan, Hank Shteamer & Suzy Exposito: 13 Great Anti-Trump Protest Songs. Rolling Stone , February 21, 2017, accessed May 1, 2017 .