Pussy Riot Announce New EP xxx, Dramatize First Days of a Trump Presidency in New Video
By Sheldon Pearce and Jazz Monroe.
This week, Pussy Riot have released videos for three songs in as many days: “Straight Outta Vagina,” “Organs,” produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, and now the Trump-sampling “Make America Great Again.” All three songs feature on a new EP, xxx, whichis out tomorrow. In the “Make America Great Again” video, which was directed by Jonas Akerlund with additional music by Ricky Reed, the group portray mayhem following a Trump election win—riots, racial violence, and the torture of Nadya Tolokonnikova by smiling officials, who brand her an “outsider” and “pervert.” Watch it below, and scroll down for the EP tracklist.
The song concludes with a plaintive mantra: “Let other people in/Listen to your women/Stop killing black children/Make America great again.”
Read Pitchfork’s new interview with Nadya, “Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokno Doesn’t Want You to Dread the Word ‘Vagina,’” on the Pitch.
xxx:
01 Make America Great Again
02 Straight Outta Vagina [ft. Desi Mo and Leikeli47]
03 Organs
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