Refreshing facts about Kittie: None of them were
Mousketeers, they don't dance down the halls of
their high school half-naked, and they're not about
to buy into the American dream of record sales
through plastic surgery
"I'm not up there singing, 'Hit me baby, one more
time!' We're a lot more mature than that," states
frontwoman Morgan. Instead, the Canadian teen
quartet presents its music with the same brutal
truth that clouds their reality. Sonically, it's harsh.
But so is the world they live in, and Kittie don't
see a need for sugarcoating.
"If people are expecting The Spice Girls, they're
not going to get it...People need to get used to
everyday occurrences, that way they don't go and
kill themselves-or other people-over things like
losing a boyfriend or girlfriend," adds drummer
Mercedes, Morgan's sister, and half of the band's
bludgeoning bottom end with bassist Talena.
Accompanying Morgan on guitar is Fallon, and
though the four girls are still toiling through high
school, they have a better grasp on their
environment than most adults.
"Being the way people are, they'll look at songs
like 'Spit' and 'Choke' and perceive them
to be about promiscuity and guys, but you have
to dig deeper than that and actually look into the
lyrics to see where we're coming from," details
Morgan. "Like the song 'Do You Think I'm a
***** ?'-That's about the way that I perceive
myself and the way other people tend to perceive
me. There are times that I really don't think that
people get what we're doing and understand
where we're coming from. We're girls, playing in a
guys business..."
"We're intense, and a lot of people just don't
expect it," continues Mercedes. "That's why 'Spit'
is my favorite song in the world-People expect us
to stink, then we get on stage and blow them
away. One minute they're just standing there,
then their mouths drop open and then they feel
small."
"All those people who judge us without hearing
us? That's enough to make me spit," says
Morgan of the song's title, pleased that Kittie have
the chance to prove cynics wrong.
"A lot of guys don't want a bunch of little girls to
get in the way of their music," laughs Fallon, who
penned "Choke" as an emotional response to
betrayal. "That song's about someone telling you
that they love you so much, and they put you up
on a pedestal and make you feel great, then they
turn around and say 'screw you.'" Musically,
"Choke" constricts as tightly as its subject
matter, pounding from death metal brutality into a
down tuned stomp that bites of sarcasm and
smacks with scorn. "Brackish" opts for a more
frantic pace, a techno backbeat and riveting
guitars playing backdrop to a spoken word
delivery that unravels into passionate vocal blasts.
It's that passion that sets Kittie apart from their
more seasoned peers. Combining insights that
are untempered by conventional political
correctness, a blunt delivery, and lyrics that delve
deeper than their titles might suggest, Kittie
transcend the commercial ease of disposable
teen angst and easily-packageable pop melodies.
Take "Paperdoll"-One of the album's least
suggestive titles, the track offers one of the
band's most palatable messages. Says Morgan,
"We want to destroy the idea that a lot of men
see women as blowup dolls. We want to break
that, because we're better than that."
Not bad for a band that was conceived when
Mercedes and Fallon met in a gymnastics class
and began playing Nirvana and Silverchair covers
with Morgan. Since then, Mercedes says she's
grown "about seven inches," Fallon no longer
aspires to be the next Mariah Carey-"I found cool
music," she says-and they've graduated from the
youthful mentality of, "Wow, let's play together!"
to refining an image of their own and turning
heads with a look inspired by equal parts glam,
goth and metal.
"We just got sick of looking like everybody
else-We didn't want to look grubby, and we didn't
want to conform. We wanted to do something
special," says Fallon. The results, according to
Morgan, fall somewhere within the realm of
"glam-goth, metal-glitter. We strive to do our own
thing and be the pavers of new roads. It's all just
completely natural, we don't really try to sound
like anything, it just happens... This is just what's
normal for us."
And for that, we have to be thankful. Imagine a
world where Britney Spears was the norm?
"Hey, we didn't say anything bad about her!"
clarifies Mercedes-"We didn't slag her, and we
respect her... We just don't want to be her!"
Morgan agrees: "Comparing us to her is like
comparing black to white... We'll just stick to the
metal!"
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