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Le Tigre Singer Suggests Ignoring Odd Future

Tegan and Sara Are Not Releasing a New

Tegan and Sara are not releasing a new album and will be doing only a few Canadian live dates this year before a well-deserved break, but that doesn’t mean indie rock’s favourite twins aren’t making international headlines. A recent online feud between Sara Quinn and Odd Future rapper Tyler the Creator swept through the blogosphere, creating a firestorm of comments and even one ill-conceived mashup. At the centre of the feud is Sara’s condemnation of the music industry’s adulation of the group and Tyler’s lyrics on topics like rape and "faggots." The controversy caught the attention of Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre’s outspoken frontwoman. Hanna was quoted widely on the internet in a Spinner interview, where she seemingly suggested that if Sara had ignored Tyler, he wouldn’t be getting the extra attention Sara's comments were now affording him. Hardly the solution you would expect from the confrontational songwriter who came screaming into the ’90s with the word incest scrawled across her tits. “We’d never met or talked to Kathleen before this,” says Tegan. “But the day after those statements were released, she actually got in touch with Sara, and they talked for a couple of hours. Kathleen said, ‘I want you to know that writer took everything I said out of context. I hadn’t read your statement. I had no idea who Tyler the Creator was, and I was speaking from a perspective of "f*ck him, ignore him." Kathleen said, after reading Sara’s statement, that she validated her whole purpose and the entire movement that started in the ’90s. I think like everything, the press pretty much always gets it wrong, and I think it’s because they’re always looking for a story and the story is edited down and it comes out of context.” “I think the best way for people to understand the Tyler the Creator situation is to go listen to his music and educate yourself,” says Tegan. “Sara is not talking about censorship; she’s talking about the industry being more responsible and not having a double standard. You can’t fine Kobe Bryant $100,000 for saying ‘faggot’ and then say Tyler the Creator has great beats so he can say ‘faggot’ 30 times a day on his Twitter, no big deal. You can’t talk about raping women and then say, ‘I’m a kid, I’m just joking.

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