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Blouse Club

by Problem Patterns

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    Problem Patterns are not limited by age or ability or binary identities. They don't have a front person, they swap instruments and roles to ensure that each member of the group has a voice. The band’s admiration for Bikini Kill and the riot grrrl movement led to an online conversation with the artist Kathleen Hanna, who advised them from her Los Angeles porch. She told them that if there wasn’t a backlash, then Problem Patterns weren’t doing their job properly.

    We think it's fair to say they're doing their job properly... You will too with this brand new debut album. F**k YESSSSS! On pink vinyl limited to 700 copies, do get in quickly. This is one of the very best. Shipping in time for release day on 27th October.

    1. Y.A.W
    2. Big Shouty
    3. Advertising Services
    4. A History of Bad Men Part II
    5. Lesbo 3000
    6. Pity Bra
    7. Who Do We Not Save
    8. Poverty Tourist
    9. Letter of Resignation
    10. Picture of Health
    11. TERFs Out
    12. Domestic Bliss

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1.
Y.A.W 03:30
Devil’s advocate wants to come out again Cuz he’d like to tell all women that it’s “not all men” And I’m just a bitch who can’t take a joke But he’ll claim his sense of humour is merely to provoke He gets his kicks looking for another reason to fight But he can’t understand why I walk home at night With my keys in between my fingers like knives But sure it’s just a bit of banter for all the guys She shouldn’t have to be your sister She shouldn’t have to be your mother Your relationship should not define How much you should respect her Do you like women or do you like power? Not every wasp is out to sting Not every tick carries disease Not every snake is venomous But we perceive them dangerous And who do we call for help? Who do we call for help? Who do we call for help When the help seems like a threat to me She shouldn’t have to be your girlfriend She shouldn’t have to be your lover A woman’s worth should not come down To how much you wanna fuck her She shouldn’t have to be your sister She shouldn’t have to be your girlfriend She shouldn’t have to be your mother She was just a person
2.
Big Shouty 01:26
Don’t put me in my place Don’t put me on your lists Just so you can fill a space Don’t talk about my “lady bits” Don’t put me in my place Don’t tell me how we sound Like a band I couldn’t possibly know And then get angry when I do Don’t put me in my place I will not tame my rage When there is so much at stake Your greed will seal our fate Don’t put me in my place
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4.
You don’t respect our sexuality Because you just think of us sexually You don’t respect when we scream in your face And yet we’re the ones who are out of place for calling out the men who mixed us up with the other band of queers who play with us It’s just a history, of bad men A fucking history, of bad men Sound engineers putting their hands on me, I’m not getting taking seriously To the man who couldn’t stand it when we got rewarded and decided to attack us It’s a history, of bad men A fucking history, of bad men And to the men we already shouted about Who put us on a list like a favour to us And the band of men who sing a song for us, how nice Don’t write a song for, how fucking boring? Men are so fucking boring Auuuggghhhh It’s a history, of bad men A fucking history of bad men Eeeuuuugghh
5.
Lesbo 3000 01:46
Fetished on pornhub Then attack us in the street Dyke means dichotomy We’re not male commodity Call me a dyke It’s a badge of honour Call me a dyke I’ll wear it with pride Nothing in your jeans can change me there is no “magic cure” because it’s not a fucking disease Call me a dyke It’s a badge of honour Call me a dyke I’ll wear it with pride Male projected fantasy On women’s sexuality They can’t imagine a reality Where they are all unnecessary Call me a dyke It’s a badge of honour Call me a dyke I’ll wear it with pride
6.
Pity Bra 01:31
In March 2020 we went to go see Sleater-Kinney in Dublin I was standing in the crowd and I saw Ciara making her way through the audience And while I watched Corin sing to a full house In the corner of my eye I saw Ciara’s arm raise up She had taken Bev’s shirt right off her back and then hurled it towards the stage Front and centre We all watched in horror as it hit Corin Tucker in the head But sure it got her attention She asked, “Is that your band?” and proclaimed her admiration Then Carrie asked why she never gets underwear thrown at her like the old rockstars When someone offered to oblige She said: “I don’t want your pity bra!”
7.
“Check on your friends” they say “Check on your friends” But what do you do when you can’t do enough to help them? We pass the load between us until we self destruct We have to bear a system that doesn’t care for us And when we’re finally strong enough to admit we’re at our worst We get stuck on waiting lists while those with power get served first We’re one or two paychecks away While they decide who they won’t save You and I are collateral damage We are all just collateral damage We look down on those who struggle to survive When they put up a paywall could you pay to stay alive? It won’t matter how long or badly you are aching They’ll gatekeep your health when there’s money to be making We’re sick and tired and can’t just wait around for things to get better We’re sick and tired of too little too late, we cannot hold out forever We’re one or two paychecks away While they decide who they won’t save You and I are collateral damage We are all just collateral damage Collateral damage
8.
You bought out the stock at Oxfam To cut it up and make a profit While somebody scraped their pennies But can’t find a thing that fits It must be nice to know you’d be alright if you quit When you’re much better off than you are willing to admit We know who you really are Poverty tourist It’s so nice that you can holiday In my financial insecurity By acting like the working class With your affected accent, post punk band Purge a vulnerable community while you remain shameless Cuz you’d step over anyone for the chance to be famous We know who you really are Poverty tourist Isn’t it funny that being perceived as having no money is profitable You get to play dress up While others struggle to keep up But you stay ignorant It’s despicable We know who you really are Poverty tourist
9.
In this house there’s no room for debate No place for the crooked who can’t be made straight Who we are is not wrong just ‘cause you can’t relate Your ‘loving the sinner’ still feels like hate Look, your writings and traditions have always been viewed In light of reason and experience - but of only a few Why don’t we open it up? What have you got to lose? Can your superiority complex not handle the truth? I’m standing up for who I believe in (And) getting knocked back (you) say I’m acting the heathen Life isn’t so black and white Try keeping yourself right I’m standing up for who I believe in You can’t fire me I’m leaving I’m the bad boy stumbling out to smoke I stopped caring what you think of me long ago I can’t go back to act in your performative show I’ve got hundreds of suits but no place to go Tear it all down Tear it down and start again Tear it all down, Tear it down Tear it down and start again
10.
I want my body back But not in the way that you think that I might mean by that I mean I don’t wanna be mean anymore Despite the ways I tell myself I am flawed Are you tired of holding yourself hostage? Cuz I know that I am exhausted I will never be the picture of health I just wanna be better I will never be the picture of health I just wanna be better to myself I’ve contorted myself Distorted version of self But we should give ourselves more credit Through the aches and pains and my brain’s disdain It was my body that survived the lot of it You cannot hate your way into a good place Cuz you’re the one that has to live in your head space I will never be the picture of health I just wanna be better I will never be the picture of health I just wanna be better to myself If I can’t be body positive I wanna stop being so negative
11.
TERFs Out 02:38
TERFs out! You don’t speak for me And sister is spelled with an S not a C TERFs out! It’s just bigotry We all need more accountability Standing with your oppressors will not make you more free You can’t tear down who built up our community Cuz LGB is nothing if not for the T So show up with some real solidarity Tired comedians Trying to stay relevant Listen to that old hag we used to adore When he sang “That joke isn’t funny anymore” A vile veil of faux feminism But you can’t claim ignorance You know exactly what you’ve been doing And you know your influence They say their discourse is “defending women” When it is just another way of controlling our bodies It is transmisogyny Trans exclusionary radical feminists AKA TERFs Claim that word to be a slur Yet through violent hate speech against anyone who does not fit their increasingly small view Of what it is to be a “real woman” A real woman is not down to her reproductive system A real woman does not look a certain way A real woman is whoever she wants to be And real feminism would never leave her out Because feminism is for everybody Every single body And not just the bodies that you are comfortable with TERFs out!
12.
Domestic bliss Who's doing the dishes Clean the house Spread the filth

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released October 27, 2023

Written and performed by Problem Patterns.

Problem Patterns is:
Beverley Boal
Bethany Crooks
Ciara King
Alanah Smith

Recorded and mixed by Niall Doran at Start Together Studios, Belfast
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Mastered by Peter J Moore at The E Room, Toronto
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Artwork by Nänni-Pää

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