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The Dare “Girls”

When “indie sleaze” took hold as a popular nostalgic obsession earlier this year at last one man called Harrison Smith took note and decided “well, fuck, I can do that.” “Girls” distills mid-00s party sleaze aesthetics into two minutes of twitchy electro-funk that basically sounds like if LCD Soundsystem had the coked-up abrasive lecherousness of Louis XIV. This is simply a song about being extremely horny for all kinds of girls, or at least all the girls who are likely to turn up at the indie sleaze club. Girls who do drugs, who hate cops and buy guns, girls with degrees, mean girls and kinky girls and trans girls and sex workers, and the list goes on. It’s a knowingly dumb and funny song, and he makes sure the joke’s on him: “they say I’m too fucking horny, wanna put me in a cage – I’d probably fuck the hole in the wall the guy before made.” The Dare could stop with just this one utterly shameless novelty single and it’d be a job well done, but I’m genuinely curious where they’d go from here. Is this the start of something bigger?

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