I’ve been perusing the interwebs for the past few hours searching for more interviews by my favorite new band, Thunderpussy, and while this could be a post about how amazing the internet is because of all the pearls gems you can find, mostly I just want to scream about how much I love Thunderpussy. But not trivially!

You see, as I was reading interviews with the band members and finding a new (to me) song of theirs and cheering and smiling to myself because I appreciate them so much, I learned a new piece of information about one of their songs that I apparently never picked up on before.

Now, let me clarify/remind those of you who don’t know me: I have seen Thunderpussy live three times now. I am currently working on a lyric analysis for one of their songs (one which they have NOT played live yet, as far as I’ve found in my research *sob*). I listen to them all the time and I’ve had the utter pleasure and privilege of getting to see them live multiple times. In other words, it’s kind of hard to surprise me with new information about their music, and yet I found some that I definitely, 100% reasonably want to share, because I absolutely do not want anyone else to sleep on it (like I screamed, scandalized, when I realized that I had been).

Funnily enough, this song was already one I obsessively loved the couple months before I got to see them live for the first time, so the fact that I found out something new about it is kind of mind-blowing to me.

According to Leah Julius, Thunderpussy’s bassist, “Gentle Frame” is “Just another in-your-face, pop/rock feminist anthem coming out at a really important moment. It’s kind of this song about unwanted advances and feeling empowered to say no, and I think the timing sits well with what’s going on culturally.” (In the article I linked to via Early Bird Music, Julius elaborated on what she meant by ‘culturally,’ like explaining the inspiration behind one of the band’s slogans on social media, #yearofthepussy.)

When I listened to this song for the months prior to the New Year’s Eve show I went to, for some reason I never once picked up on that theme – mostly because, unfortunately, I couldn’t make heads or tails of what the song was about. I loved it, and it’s got an incredible, thriving groove (and to be quite honest, every moment I listen to Thunderpussy I feel empowered), but as for what sort of situation it detailed…I guess I was rather ignorant. But no longer! Or at least, that’s what I do all this research for.

And now I listen to it with an even greater appreciation, knowing that they tackled this kind of politically/culturally/humanly relevant topic…and in such a badass tune, of course. “Empowered” – no shit!