Double Dare Ya

Double Dare Ya

Bikini Kill

The very first track off Bikini Kill’s legendary debut record serves as a thesis statement for the Riot Grrrl, an underground feminist punk movement that formed in the 1990s around female-fronted punk bands that sang about feminist themes (like empowerment, sexuality, abuse, patriarchy and racism).

In this song, Kathleen Hanna offers a proposition to girls everywhere in the form of a dare to be unashamed of themselves.