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Kool Thing Lyrics
Kool Thing you're sitting with a kitty
Now you know you sure look pretty
Like a lover, not a dancer
Super boy take a little chance here

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

Kool Thing let me play with your radio
Move me turn me on, baby-o
I'll be your slave
Give you a shave

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

(yeah, tell 'em 'bout, hear the way we hear this)
Hey Kool Thing
Come here
Sit down beside me
There's something i gotta ask you
I just wanna know
What're you gonna do for me
I mean
Are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression?
(tell it like it is)
Huh?
(Yeah)
Don't be shy
(Word up)
Fear of a female planet
(Fear of a female planet, fear baby)
I just want you to know
That we can still be friends
(Let everybody know)

When you're a star
I know that you'll fix everything, everything

Kool Thing you're sitting with a kitty
Now you know you sure look pretty
Rock me just a little faster
Now I know you are the master

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

Kool Thing walking like a panther
Come on and give me an answer
Kool Thing walking like a panther
What'd he say?

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

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Songmeaningsuser
09-01-2002

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Seems to be an attack on the macho masculine male, and how they will/won't do certain things to show how how masculine they are.

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drivel75
05-04-2004

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I heard that this song was about LL Cool J which would be the reason for the lyrics about 'panthers' and 'radio' (taken from the names of his songs). Kim was going to have LL sing but later decided to have Chuck D on instead.

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conetoaster11
11-12-2004

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Definitely an attack on gender (specifically male) constructs and general identity. But it's more playful than that. This feminism is passe, formulated two decades before the release of Goo, and she's playing with it. Life isn't quite so simple, and she hints at an element of pleasure in both the traditional framing, as well as the institutionalized rebellion. There's a hint of satisfaction in the offer of a shave, and she's also singing directly to the target of her attack. Whether Chuck D or LL Cool J, they're very much in on the game, as well, the wink being offered in both directions.

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atthedrive-in
12-14-2004

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actually its about the black rights movement group the "Black Panthers" and the women who supported them - not because they cared about black rights, but because they wanted the men.

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PeaceFrog33
12-10-2005

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I think it's sad that this song is about oppression and subjection of women but the whole time I keep thinking how hot Kim sounds. : ( I agree with everything she says but.......God. I'm an idiot.

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PeaceFrog33
12-10-2005

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I think it's sad that this song is about oppression and subjection of women but the whole time I keep thinking how hot Kim sounds. : ( I agree with everything she says but.......God. I'm an idiot.

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YoungxForxEternity
03-23-2006

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I agree with atthedrive-in.

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mmkg_28
04-06-2006

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On the Gilmore Girls, I'm fairly certain that Rory played this song in her appartment with Logan (while she was getting ready to leave). Either way, good song.

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voltaire7
04-06-2006

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She plays a lot of songs... she's very hip. Except, the writers don't always put in the most appropriate song... IE Franz Ferdinand's Do You Want To during an emotional phone call in her room.

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mmkg_28
04-15-2006

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Voltaire: (if you were referring to Gilmore Girls) yes, a lot of good music is featured on the show. sometimes it seems as just an attempt to prove that Lane/Rory are hip/musically-cool. also, they play a lot of franz ferdinand on the show--the played "jacqueline" during her packing from college.

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Dressed2Depress
06-10-2006

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another one of my fa songs of all time. Gotta luv that riff. also as already mentioned it features chuck D from public enemy who did some good work worth checking out. To be honest i hadnt given to much thought about whatthe lyrics meant. I guess i always assumed it was about the new york scene which sonic youth and i guess public enemy (ever seen the video to fight the power? - its a classic) to some extent were part of.

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ANTWANmyMAN
01-23-2007

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this song is one of their besst

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SoundgardeNirvana
02-26-2007

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This was Kurt Cobain's #1 most influential song ever.

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hemlockroad
03-24-2007

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It's my all-time fave song too...there is so much going on in the lyrics of the song...I think it's ripping apart the "white corporate maleness" of grunge/white rock and the machoness of rappers like LL Cool J but at the same time Kim is winking at LL Cool J..."we can still be friends"....Chuck D was used because Public Enemy was recording in the studio next to Sonic Youth.

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hazzamatazza
10-10-2007

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Patti Hurst and the SlA, ha ha i am such a copy cat

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rachael08
11-24-2007

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To Volitare: Sonic Youth actually PLAYED on the show Gilmore Girls. Although it's only a short clip of them, it's badass nonetheless.

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adk04d
12-06-2007

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“Kool Thing” was inspired by an interview that Kim Gordon had with LL Cool Jay when she was writing a piece for the music-magazine Spin. (See article below). Essentially the interview was a ridiculous idea, the two did not get along, and the song was meant to mock LL Cool Jay, who had recently released the 1989 album “Walking With a Panther” – for which he was booed on stage by fans for its pop-sellout nature. As we should all know, LL Cool Jay came back with one of his most known singles “Mama Said Knock You Out” an epic masterpiece.

I don’t believe Gordon knew exactly herself where she was headed with the political themes listed in the song, but I believe in the interview she meant to associate herself with the fight of the Black Panthers against the white male – which turned out to be a movement that left women uninvited, (as women are weak and inferior and have half the size of brains that men do and were put on this planet to make sandwiches and stuff and do laundry and you know, other non-man things – to put it as a white male oppressor would). I think this may have pissed off Kim. “Kool Thing” is littered with LL Cool Jay references, such as the voice of Chuck D representing the rapper’s careless attitude towards the political realm.

http://search.phoenixnewtimes.com/1991-03-20/music/staying-koolsonic-youth-survives-a-major-label/

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sable Jester
12-27-2007

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i really like this band. the instrumentals are so beautiful.

but their lyrics pretty much suck. they don't make sense, they're grammatically obscene, and their attempts at depth simply fall flat. if sonic youth was an instrumental band, they'd be one of my favorites.
i just think they should lay off the huffing. it's not doing much good.

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OpinionHead
01-19-2008

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Yeah I agree. Kim Gordon is utterly annoying, almost to the brink of despondency. The lyrics are atrocious, the video is heinous and borderline schizophrenic. Even more disturbing, I have this distressing idea regarding Kurt Cobain. If he was greatly influenced by this song, was he inspired by Gordon's look from this video as well? If that isn't true, I surely can see it Courtney Love's stage presence and her antics off stage.

The only reason I listen to this song is because Kim Gordon can play a bass and her husband can play guitar.

Sonic Youth is an acquired taste, nothing more need be said.

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gibsonsg87
02-13-2008

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this song is obviously about women's rights and to some extent the black panthers. the instrumentals sound really cool. I love the energy the drummer and the guitar have in some of the faster parts. the lyrics however are a little stupid, because the part about the "kitty" makes no sense, and all the rest is very obvious political references. Good lyrics should have you guessing at the meaning, and not just tell you what the song is about straight up

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foreverdrone
06-20-2008

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Chuck D as a representative of an apolitical attitude? That makes no sense, either in general or in the context of this song. Chuck D is politically outspoken personally and in his music. And in his cameo in Kool Thing--during the part Kim is delivering the most explicitly political lines in the song--Chuck is cheering her on. "Hit 'em where it hurts. Let everybody know!"

OTOH there's so much irony in this song, it can tie your head in knots. Kool Thing--and its associated photo shoot--were an obvious (and perhaps slightly desperate) effort by Geffen to put Sonic Youth on the pop charts. Which failed, despite this being among the band's more accessible songs. (Getting Butch "Nevermind" Vig to produce Dirty didn't help, either.) But relative to SY's musical approach and their place in the rock world, "accessible" is a relative term, and it doesn't add up to Top 40. However catchy it may be, the guitar work flirts with atonality; this drives many a would-be listener to stick in their ear plugs (literally?)

Not that it matters. It's difficult to think of any band having Sonic Youth's combination of creative freedom and prominence. They can put release an homage to Stan Brakhage and never worry about having to get a day job. In return Geffen looks cool. Even if Sonic Youth had gone Metal Machine Music from the first day they signed with DGC until the present, all would be forgiven; what could have been more beneficial to the label than their advocacy of Nirvana?

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little-offset
07-18-2008

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To gibsonsg87- couldn't "kitty" be a reference to the Panther side of things? The word "kitty" could be used as a patronising diminuitive, ironically or otherwise, for the women who supported the movement

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wilino
09-30-2008

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in spanish, when she sings "i don't wanna" sounds alike "mari-huana"... it's kinda funny
:D

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Debased1988
10-28-2008

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adk04d is right...or at least I think (s)he is.

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notyourfiend
06-28-2009

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White feminist woman's curiosity with radicalism outside of just the feminist context.

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