Spit (album)

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"Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick)"
Michael Tedder of The Pitch wrote that "Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick)" is a "vital, vitriol-filled" jab "at men who think women can't play rock". [34]
"Choke"
According to a Washington Post advertising supplement, "'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." [35]
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Music

Spit is a nu metal album [36] [37] [38] with elements of heavy metal, [39] speed metal, [40] groove metal, [41] alternative metal, [41] alternative rock , [42] death metal, [35] [43] and in the lead single "Brackish", techno [44] [35] [45] and rap. [38] According to Exclaim! , Spit "plays like an inconsistent collection of stale 1991-era Pantera and Sepultura B-sides, overdubbed with the occasional 1995 techno sprinkle for a somewhat modern measure". [44] The album contains heavy riffs, [41] rapping (in the song "Brackish"), [38] screaming and clean singing. [46] According to an AllMusic review by Roxanne Blanford, the album has a "meatier, heavier sound than contemporaries Limp Bizkit and Korn". [45] According to Michael Tedder of The Pitch , "Spit echoes Helmet's precision, Slayer's power and (with some songs dealing with body image and self-esteem issues) even Nirvana's confessional songwriting". [34] Author Tommy Udo compared Kittie's sound and attitude to heavy metal bands such as Pantera and Machine Head. [47] The album's songs are played in the tuning of drop C. [31]

Lyrics

Despite the lyrics, Morgan Lander said Kittie led "fairly normal lives". Morgan Lander Kittie.jpg
Despite the lyrics, Morgan Lander said Kittie led "fairly normal lives".

The album's lyrical themes explore "hate, ignorance and sexism", [49] and AllMusic noted its feminist lyrics. [45] Nonetheless, Morgan Lander said Kittie are not a feminist band. [49] According to George Lang of The Oklahoman , "Kittie's lyrics are full of spit and venom, directed at preppy cheerleaders, rich kids, rude boys and women who trade on their sexuality". [50] According to Morgan Lander, Spit is "a dark album, but it's about every day life which isn't always peachy". [36] Spit was controversial because of its song titles, which made many people think that the album's songs are about sex. [51] In an interview with NY Rock, Atfield said that none of the album's songs are about sex. [52]

Mercedes Lander explained the meaning of Spit's title track: "People expect us to suck, then we get on stage and blow them away." [35] [53] The song "Spit" was inspired by the attitude of local bands towards Kittie. [49] "Charlotte" was inspired by a serial killer from the book Rites of Burial by Tom Jackman and Troy Cole. [54] "Brackish" "is a commentary on a friend of" Kittie "and the relationship that she was in at the time". [54] "Jonny" is reportedly a reaction to male domination of women, [55] whilst "Raven", according to the Sun-Sentinel , "was inspired by a death threat received from a male band against whom" Kittie "competed in an Ontario talent contest." [48] In an interview with Bleeding Metal, Mercedes and Bowman said the song title "Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick)" came from an incident at a school talent show when, after playing one song, a teacher didn't like what they were playing, telling them to "get off". [56] Bowman said that "Choke" is "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'". [35] According to Morgan Lander, "Do You Think I'm a Whore" is about "how some people automatically think you're a slut because you wear a short skirt", [36] and "not judging a book by its cover". [49] The song's title was given "basically to prove people wrong". [49] The album's penultimate track, "Paperdoll", is about the degradation of women as objects. [35]

Release and promotion

Kittie began touring in support of Spit in July 1999, when they performed at the Milwaukee Metalfest. [57] [58] Radio specialty shows and early press supported the album before its release, and the band's profile increased following coverage of the band in Rolling Stone magazine and in an MTV News 1515 report. [58] [59] [60] In August 1999, the band toured with Skinlab. [23] In September, following their performance at the Big Day Off in Hartford, Connecticut, Candler abruptly left Kittie for personal reasons. [61] [36] The band quickly recruited Talena Atfield to replace Candler, with Atfield being made to learn Kittie's entire setlist two weeks before a scheduled performance at the CMJ Music Festival in New York City, where a music video was filmed for the album's lead single, "Brackish". [62] [20] [nb 2] The album was initially released on November 13, 1999, by Ng, [1] but its production was short-lived as Ng was absorbed into Artemis Records shortly after. [50] Candler's departure contributed to the delays, [63] with the band having to re-record "Paperdoll" as she was the song's vocalist. [22] Spit was then reissued by Artemis on January 11, 2000, with different artwork and photographs, featuring pictures of Atfield in place of Candler. [20] [45] [39] Sony Music handled the album's distribution outside of the United States. [64]

Spit was supported by two major singles, "Brackish" and "Charlotte". "Brackish", which had been receiving airplay from radio outlets since late 1999, was released as a single on the same day that Spit was re-released. [65] [66] The song's music video premiered on MuchMusic the day of the single's release, and then premiered on MTV by first appearing on MTV's 120 Minutes on January 30, 2000. [67] "Brackish" continued to be played on MTV and was rotated on WAAF. [19] [68] The single reached number 31 on Billboard 's Active Rock chart. [69] On February 23, 2000, Kittie performed "Brackish" live on Late Night With Conan O'Brien , [70] [71] and were interviewed and performed on the talk show Later on May 31, 2000. [72] On June 5, 2000, Kittie released "Charlotte" as the album's second single, which reached number 35 on the Active Rock chart. [69] [73] [74] The music video for "Charlotte", directed by Lisa Rubish, [75] was one of the most played music videos on MTV during July 2000. [76] Artemis also released two EPs in support of Spit; a four-track promotional EP featuring live versions (and respective radio edits) of the album's title track and "Suck" was serviced to radio stations on April 24, 2000, [77] and the Paperdoll EP, featuring a remix of Spit's song "Paperdoll" and some live tracks, was released on December 12, 2000. [78] The Paperdoll EP had sold 100,000 copies in the United States by December 2003. [79]

After Spit's release, Kittie toured the United States with Slipknot. [80] Between April 7 and April 10, 2000, Kittie played three Canadian dates with Slipknot, [81] before embarking on an American tour with Chevelle, Shuvel and the Step Kings on April 27. [75] Kittie then toured Europe with Suicidal Tendencies and performed at Ozzfest 2000, headlining the second stage. [75] [82] They were the youngest, and only female act, on that year's bill. Morgan and Mercedes said when they were having dinner with their parents back home in Canada, they received a phone call from the representative of Ozzfest, being asked if they were interested in performing at the tour, requesting a press kit to review. When touring in England, Kittie received a phone call being told the band is officially involved in the tour. [83] On July 11, 2000, the band released the home video Spit in Your Eye. [75] Artemis Records wanted Kittie to begin recording a new album after the Ozzfest tour in September 2000, [84] which the band refused to do as they didn't feel that they were finished touring. [85] Kittie planned to tour with Pantera, [86] but the tour fell through when Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo fell and broke two ribs. After the Pantera tour fell through, Kittie created a headlining tour from November 18 to December 1, 2000, [87] and performed at the 2001 SnoCore festival. [88]

Reception

Critical

Spit
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Studio album by
Kittie
ReleasedNovember 13, 1999 (1999-11-13) [1]
RecordedMay 1999
Studio EMAC (London, Ontario)
Genre Nu metal
Length37:23
Label
Producer Garth Richardson
Kittie chronology
Kittie
(1998)		Spit
(1999)		 Paperdoll
(2000)
Singles from Spit
  1. "Brackish"
    Released: January 11, 2000
  2. "Charlotte"
    Released: June 5, 2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [45]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [89]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [90]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [91]
NME 4/10 [92]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [93]
Rock Hard 7/10 [94]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [95]
Select Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [37]
The Village Voice C+ [96]

Spit received mixed-to-positive reviews. Rolling Stone gave Spit a three out of five, calling the album "fairly good-natured for an exercise in repetitive maximum aggro". [95] Roxanne Blanford of AllMusic wrote, "these young women learned well the lessons of predecessors Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and the current reigning queen of angst-rock, Courtney Love". [45] Teen Ink gave Spit a positive review: "Kittie is a Canadian band made up of four girls who can rock, yell and keep up with any hardcore band out there". [46] Phil McNamara of The Worcester Phoenix wrote that Kittie "can throw down heavy head-banging riffs with the best of them, and oh yeah -- they're girls". [51] Also, Canadian journalist Martin Popoff is quite happy of a girl band which can rock "heavily and smartly", "sounding like vicious hardcore sirens" avoiding "electronic gunk" with only a slight nod to rap metal. [89]

The Oklahoman gave Spit a positive review: "Throw in the fact that they range in age from 15 to 18, and Kittie seems like the perfect weapon to smite Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and Christina Aguilera, forever ridding the music industry of teen-pop". [50] CMJ New Music Report gave Spit a positive review: "the teenage babes in Ontario, Canada's Kittie will scratch and claw their way into the dark recesses of your hearts thanks to their debut, the smashing 'n' stomping Spit". [39] The Washington Post criticized the album: "All four members of this Canadian metal-punk band are women, which is still a novel (though certainly not unique) lineup for a headbanging ensemble. Too bad that's virtually the quartet's only distinguishing feature". [97] The review concluded, "After four or five of these pounding rockers, Kittie becomes a bore." [97] Exclaim! also criticized the album: "Guidance Counsellor's advice: pull the plug and stay in school". [44] NME gave the album a four-out-of-ten rating: "Like kindred spirits System of a Down, Kittie want to give you the impression that they're just too tasty to fuk wit, too unhinged to view as normal folk, too pierced for the mainstream." [92] Robert Christgau, who gave the album a C+ in his Consumer Guide for The Village Voice , [96] said that he approved of what the band did but felt that they "[didn't] do it well", and expressed concern that they would provide "an excuse [for guys] to say, 'Ah bullshit, girls suck and they can't play rock & roll.' ". [98]

The Pitch gave Spit an "honourable mention" on their "American Top 40: Best Albums of 2000" list. [99] Kittie also received a nomination for "Best New Group" at the 2001 Juno Awards, ultimately losing out to Nickelback. [100]

Commercial

Ng had initially pressed 8,000 copies of Spit. According to Morgan Lander, "Those 8,000 copies were gone in like the first fucking week". [21] On January 29, 2000, Spit debuted on the US Billboard 200 chart at number 147 with 8,800 copies sold, [101] and two weeks later, reached number one on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart on February 19, 2000. [69] [102] The album later reached its peak position of number 79 on April 15, 2000. [69] By the time the album had peaked, Spit had already sold over 100,000 copies, [103] and by May 2000 it had sold 236,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [104] The album remained on the Billboard 200 chart for 37 weeks. [69] Spit also reached number 2 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart, and remained on the chart for 64 weeks. [69] On October 17, 2000, Spit was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [105] [106] As of April 1, 2003, Spit has sold more than 660,000 copies in the United States. [107] Spit also achieved some success outside of the United States, selling over 100,000 copies in Europe by February 2001. [108] Although Spit did not chart in the United Kingdom, "Brackish" peaked at number 46 on the UK Singles Chart on March 25, 2000, and "Charlotte" peaked at number 60 on the UK Singles Chart on July 22, 2000. [109] Spit did not achieve as much success in Canada, selling only 40,000 copies in the country by 2003. [110] Its lower sales have been attributed to a lack of radio support, as well as Kittie's lack of touring in the country. [111] In a 2000 interview with Chart Attack , Morgan said that Artemis "know the American market best [and] they are pushing for that" and that the label had "shunned" the band's attempt at a Canadian tour, but did not want to come off as "neglecting" the country. [112]

Aftermath

We received more praise and criticism for [Spit] than we have over the duration of our entire careers; we were vilified and heralded as the "anti-Britney." We were called geniuses and a gimmick; we were accused of sleeping our way to a record deal or not writing our songs. Our merit and validity as a real band were time and time again called into question, and this is the perception we have continued to deal with, unfortunately. [...] It's been a struggle to overcome the negative slant that many mainstream media outlets put on Spit and "prove" ourselves as a viable band worthy of praise and appreciation within the metal community. We have always been considered outsiders, in a way, and have had a hell of a time being taken seriously.

—Morgan Lander on the impact of Spit on Kittie's reputation and image (2012) [113]

Much of the press attention surrounding and following the release of Spit focused on the ages of Kittie's members as well as their anomalous status as an all-female band playing heavy metal, much to the band's chagrin. [5] [20] [114] The members of Kittie said that they did not want to be described as a "girl metal" band, but as a heavy metal band instead. Mercedes said: "You don't call Machine Head a 'boy metal band'. You call them a metal band. Why should they make an exception [for us] just because of the gender? It's almost the exact same kind of music, except we don't have penises". [49] The band were also annoyed by frequent comparisons to Britney Spears and presentation as "anti-Britney", [5] [115] [116] a phenomenon Saturday Night magazine attributed to a comment from Morgan posted on the band's website in late 1999, stating: "I'm not up there singing, 'Hit me baby, one more time!' We're a lot more mature than that." [5] Mercedes felt that most of the press attention surrounding Kittie around the release of Spit was "the wrong kind of press" because journalists had not properly researched the band before writing about them; [117] she additionally claimed that Artemis had revealed the ages of Kittie's members to the press against their wishes. [118] Morgan also criticized journalists for constantly making puns about Kittie's name—dubbing it "Feline Association Disease"—which she saw as an attempt to reduce the band to novelty status. [116]

In the years following its release, Kittie attempted to distance themselves from Spit. [119] In a 2007 interview, Morgan stated that the album had created "a strange stigma about the band—that we are contrived or based solely on image, not music". [120] She described Kittie's second album Oracle (2001) as their attempt to "prove that we weren't gimmicks, that we weren't what a lot of critics wrote us off as, [and] that we were a real metal band". [121] By the release of their third album Until the End (2004), the band had completely abandoned the nu metal style of Spit in favour of a death metal sound. [122] For a time, Kittie stopped playing songs from the album live, as the band "wanted people to see who we are now and what we have accomplished since then", according to Morgan. [123] None of the band's subsequent albums would match the critical or popular acclaim of Spit. [20] [124] By 2024, Morgan had become more accepting of Spit, as well as Kittie's association with nu metal. [125] [126] In an interview with Revolver , Morgan said:

Our debut [Spit] came out at a time when nu-metal was huge and we were sort of put in that category, but as we evolved as musicians and as players and as a band, we gravitated away from that sound. I think for me, for a really long time, nu-metal was sort of like a bad word. It's tough when you're associated with a genre that you don't necessarily identify with. But I have learned over time to be proud of having an album that is part of that seminal nu-metal movement. I'm proud of our contribution. [127]

Spit made Kittie into one of a few all-female nu metal bands to achieve notable success, [128] [129] and later assessments of album have been more positive. [20] [124] [130] In 2013, Westword credited the album for credited for "[inspiring] a" whole new generation of women" in metal. [131] Serena Cherry of Svalbard and Noctule cited Spit as the reason she became a metal musician. [132] In 2023, the album's title track was covered by Poppy, which Kittie approved of. [133] [134] "Brackish" appeared on Fuse's "19 Best Nu-Metal Hits of All Time" list in 2015, [38] and was ranked number 23 on Spin 's "30 Best Nu Metal Songs" list in 2017. [135] In March 2023, Rolling Stone ranked the album's title track at number 82 on their list of "The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time", calling the song "a murderously heavy proto-feminist anthem that takes aim at misogynists and lands a kill shot in under three minutes." [136] [137]

Accolades for Spit
PublicationListRankRef.
Hit Parader All-Time Top 10 Female-Fronted Metal Discs4
Kerrang! The 21 greatest nu-metal albums of all time16
The 50 Best Albums From 200047
Loudwire Top 50 Nu-metal Albums of All-Time41
Metal Hammer The 50 best nu metal albums of all time32
Revolver 20 Essential Nu Metal albumsN/A

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kittie. [142]

Original release
No.TitleLength
1."Spit"2:20
2."Charlotte"3:56
3."Paperdoll"3:06
4."Suck"3:31
5."Do You Think I'm a Whore"3:00
6."Brackish"3:06
7."Jonny"2:24
8."Trippin'"2:21
9."Raven"3:25
10."Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick)"2:52
11."Choke"4:05
12."Immortal"2:49
Total length:36:55
Reissue
No.TitleLength
1."Spit"2:20
2."Charlotte"3:56
3."Suck"3:31
4."Do You Think I'm a Whore"3:00
5."Brackish"3:06
6."Jonny"2:24
7."Trippin'"2:21
8."Raven"3:25
9."Get Off (You Can Eat a Dick)"2:52
10."Choke"4:05
11."Paperdoll"3:22
12."Immortal"2:49
Total length:37:23

Personnel

Adapted from Spit's liner notes. [143]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [106] Gold660,000 [107]

Release history

RegionLabelFormatDateCatalog #Ref.
United StatesNg CD November 13, 1999751002-2 [1]
United States
January 11, 2000ATM 497630 9 [45]
Canada
February 2000 [5]
EuropeFebruary 28, 2000 [147]
Europe
CDAugust 16, 2004RCD17027 [148]
Europe Metal Mind CD (digipak)November 24, 2008MASS CD 1243 DG [149]
Various MNRK Music Group LP April 23, 2022EOM-LP-46645 [150]
CDJuly 8, 2022MNK-CD-46759 [151]
LPApril 6, 2023MNK-LP-46778 [152]
LP (picture disc)July 12, 2024MNK-LP-441010 [153]

Notes

  1. ↑ The band were not officially signed to Ng until June or July 1999, after Spit was recorded. [22] [23]
  2. ↑ Italian-Canadian filmmaker Floria Sigismondi was initially brought in to direct the music video for "Brackish", but her treatment was vetoed by Kittie's record label, who were unwilling to pay for its potential production costs. [20]
  3. ↑ Original release only. [22]
  4. ↑ Atfield was only credited. She did not perform on Spit. [2]

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Trisha Jaimee Doan was a Korean-Canadian musician, photographer and television producer, best known for her tenure as the bass guitarist for the Canadian heavy metal band Kittie.

<i>Fire</i> (Kittie album) 2024 studio album by Kittie

Fire is the seventh studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie, released on June 21, 2024, by Sumerian Records. It is the band's first album in almost 13 years following the release of I've Failed You (2011), in between which time they were largely on an indefinite hiatus due to rising costs associated with touring and making music, a lack of public interest, and the death of bassist Trish Doan in 2017. After receiving several offers to play shows in late 2021, Kittie ended their hiatus in January 2022, with bassist Ivy Vujic returning to their lineup after a decade-long absence. Following their performances at the When We Were Young festival in October 2022, the band were signed to Sumerian and began working on new material.

<i>Never Again</i> (Kittie EP) 2006 EP by Kittie

Never Again is the third extended play by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie, released exclusively on digital storefronts on February 7, 2006, through Rock Ridge Music. Recorded at Mole Studios in London, Ontario, The EP contains four demos of "Never Again", "This Too Shall Pass", "Breathe", and "Everything That Could Have Been", which were later re-recorded for Kittie's fourth album Funeral For Yesterday (2007). The band supported its release with the Never Again Tour across America for two months, which allowed the band to develop their songs before recording them in the summer of 2006.

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