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Finding heavy metal stardom as teenagers, Kittie has been thrashing for the past 20 years. With 6 albums and over 2 million in sales, they have defied industry norms, fought against rock stereotypes, and inspired generations.
Kittie: Origins/Evolutions
2018 Directed by Robert McCallum
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I have often wandered about certain bands that have always had members rotating in and out. Kittie is no stranger to this phenomenon. In this rock doc all these questions are answered with hard hitting interviews with past and present members. It’s amazing to see how the Lander sisters have kept this freight train of sound rolling all these years. After viewing this doc I have instantly transformed from a causal Kittie fan to a Die Hard fan.
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This wasn’t a bad documentary. The women in the band seem nice and I liked the CD when I was a kid. They all look better now than they did then too. They didn’t really get into much dirt or anything like that which honestly you’d probably hope for more of. There’s no way there wasn’t more drama than they let on about. I’m sure if you’re a big fan of this band you’d love this just because you get footage of them in studio and on tour. I seem to remember an old tour diary vhs tape that was cool too.
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I love “rock docs” that heavily focus on interviews like this. This was so informative and made me appreciate Kittie beyond the first two records more than I ever have before. Such a crucial band for me growing up.
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kittie is easily one of my top 5 bands and this just was nice to watch. also i have major heart eyes for fallon bowman
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A band I initially liked ironically and then grew to actually like.
The documentary, though, meticulously avoids anything interesting, and doesn't even have the decency to pad it out with concert footage.
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I look at her in that paper dress
I wonder why she won't burn
She's just a paperdoll
That's all
Just a paperdoll
I dress her up
I dress her up, she knocks me down
They try her on for size, she fits nice, one size fits all
Now her soul is dead
Now her body's raw
You can numb her pain
Watch the blood run down her face, but don't take notice
& watch the blood run down her arms, please don't take notice
I know you have her soul, & I see it in your eyes
She knows you have her soul, & she sees it in your eyes
Now her soul is dead
Now her body's raw
Wash away her pain
She wants you to ease her pain
She wants you to eat her remains -
I hated watching every minute of this terribly made commercial cum documentary & now I unfortunately have to hate one of my best friends for making do it.
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Cool origins story… although could’ve used more details about the those first few tours… Seems like
The surface is merely scratched.But pretty cool to hear the Landers sisters tell their stories, as I’ve always been curious as to what they’ve been up to since the nu-metal fallout.
Ggggreat interviews with Ggggarth.
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A documentary about a band I really enjoyed back when I was younger that brings an in depth look at the 2 sisters that started this band. A sort of biography of the 2 that gives a good look into their passion.
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You come away with a clearer idea of why the band was unable to capture the vicious raw aggression of the second album given all the production compromises, label issues, and line-up changes that followed, and in that context, that record and the avoidance of the sophomore slump seems all the more impressive given the pressure from execs to hurriedly put out a follow-up after the meteoric, unexpected success of the debut when the band members were only sixteen!
Great to have confirmation of what I've suspected ever since 2000, that the chorus backing vocal of the group's first single 'Brackish' was inspired by Static-X!
This is still such a banger twenty years later.
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Very much an ad/band controlled thing that doesn't go into anything of interest. I'm a sucker for any songwriter/band doc tho.