EPISODE 35 - “Crusade” with the anti-Queens
SHOW NOTES
Host Shawna talks to Emily and Valerie, members of the Canadian rock band, The Anti-Queens. In this fast-paced interview, they talk about gear, recording this latest album (lots of gear talk for the nerds!), sexism in music, writing overtly political lyrics for the first time, Canada’s image on the world stage versus the reality, being lied to by the educational system about Indigenous history, day jobs, tearing down Justin Timberlake, and so much more.
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Thanks to Brooks Harlan for chopping up War On Women’s song “Her?” to create the podcast theme song. Main podcast photo: Justin Borucki.
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SHOW LINKS:
The Anti-Queens: https://antiqueens.com/
We Matter Campaign: https://wemattercampaign.org/
Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction: https://www.torontoindigenoushr.com/
Finding Our Power Together: https://findingourpowertogether.com/
Canada’s Unmarked Graves: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-residential-schools-unmarked-graves-indigenous-children-60-minutes-2022-02-06/
Crossdog: https://www.crossdogisaband.com/
Aqua Tofana music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVi3KiEwfHE
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shawnapotter.com
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https://www.youtube.com/@shawnapotter
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SHOW SCRIPT:
Welcome to But Her Lyrics...the show where we delve into the political lyrics of songs I like, songs I wrote, or topics that I think should be a song. I’m Shawna Potter, singer and lyricist for War On Women - and your host. In a minute I’ll be talking with Valerie and Emily from The Anti-Queens, or for the Canadians, the Antee-Queens, and we talk about a lot of stuff that apparently they’ve never had the chance to discuss in interviews before, a lot of firsts, so keep listening to join in on this really fun conversation, despite the heavy subject matter of the song we’re dissecting, “Crusade” off their brand new album, Disenchanted.
[PATREON]
Before we get into it, I want to shout out our official sponsors, First Defense Krav Maga and Pupcakes and Pawstries. Links in the show notes, check them out. And big thanks to my Recruits Melissa and Ronni! (Ronnie has a cool, trans-affirming hair salon in Seattle, look up Navarro Hair Design). And to my Meatheads Stephan, Zacharie, Bob, Byron, Russell, and Isaias, and Hunters Mike, Andris, Lydia, Tim, Bessie, Zachary, Kevin, and Lauren. This podcast would not exist without you, you know that, and your support helps me do all my other work, including the band, so thank you. If you want a shout out, too, join my Patreon, where you’ll also get access to behind the scenes stuff, bonus content, and I have a new shirt design if you join at the Meathead level or above for 3 months, you get a free gift, an exclusive shirt, whoever gets theirs first please take a pic and tag me in it, I wanna see it in the wild.
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[INTERVIEW TIME]
[INTERVIEW OTW]
After I stopped recording, Valerie showed me her Explorer and we had a whole conversation about needing more women in the music industry and how there’s no shame in being just the singer as Emily starts to experiment with playing less guitar live. And of course I told her how fucking great it is after playing guitar in bands for 20 years. But Sorry for not recording it! It was unexpected! But I will have a Patreon-exclusive bonus moment with them out soon, so sign up and watch out for that. Thanks again to Emily and Valerie for giving me some time. Keep listening to hear their song Crusade in full.
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On the next episode of BHL I get to talk with my buddy Linh from Bad Cop/Bad Cop, so stay tuned, ceasefire now and stop funding genocide.
CRUSADE LYRICS
They tried to make us forget
With a false narrative
Infiltrating on demand
Just to put glorification in our heads
And it never ends
I wanna be on the true side of history
All inclusive humanity
We say we learn from our mistakes
But the words never seem to hold their weight
The past keeps on repeating
Better wake up cause you’re no longer dreaming
How dare they call it even
I wanna be on the true side of history
All inclusive humanity
We wanna see a shift in our society
Do we really stand on guard for thee?
The uncounted missing and murdered
The lost tongues buried by your cross
When all you claim to own is stolen
You deny the truth, refuse to pay the cost
I wanna be on the true side of history
All inclusive humanity
We wanna see a shift in our society
Do we really stand on guard for thee?