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CNN: What do you make of singers like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Ke$ha who are seemingly touching on themes of gay empowerment in their music, but for some reason it doesn’t quite resonate?

Hanna: I mean, is it really that different when it’s a skinny white woman in a bathing suit singing these things? None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art. I mean, that’s just my feeling about it. A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco, though that first Ke$ha song “TiK ToK” was good. But (Katy Perry’s) “I Kissed a Girl” was just straight-up offensive. The whole thing is like, I kissed a girl so my boyfriend could masturbate about it later. It’s disgusting. It’s exactly every male fantasy of fake lesbian porn. It’s pathetic. And she’s not a good singer. I don’t want to trash other women. I mean, I think Jason Mraz is horrible. It’s not just like I hate other women performers. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the Earth.

CNN: There’s a ton of bad performers, male and female, but what’s different in the women’s narrative is that you see them perform, then you see them in their bathing suits in magazines, and people have at them there, too.

Hanna: People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer. I mean, it’s not like Stevie Nicks or Linda Ronstadt were dogs. It’s not like this is some new thing. But there was at one point a larger variety, but now the catchphrase is “the whole package,” the “American Idol” reality that you’re a model first and a singer second. The Go-Go’s were one of the biggest all-girl bands ever. What other all-girl band has ever been really famous? There’s never women playing instruments. There’s Grace Potter, who plays guitar, maybe? Kelis had an all-girl band on tour, and Beyonce did, too. But it’s not like those bands started in a garage.

CNN: Why is that? Why is it so tough to have women play instruments?

Hanna: It’s something I get asked a lot, and it’s like one of the answers is sexism. That’s it. That’s the answer. But I don’t know what it is further than that.