"Tell patient zero he can have his rib back" damn what a POWER MOVE.

@BenMilli

5 жыл бұрын

That line is "Pyro"-Technical.

@SecretCh0rd

4 жыл бұрын

It would be, if the story weren't allegory for a cannibal's conversion to omnivorousness by a succulent morsel. Few can decode that though, so she gets a pass.

@Jesse__H

4 жыл бұрын

@@SecretCh0rd sure, dude.

@haggisa

4 жыл бұрын

SnowingWolfGirl Her entire career is a power move. 😊

@tallinn5086

2 жыл бұрын

Took my breath away

Dessa is criminally underrated.

@alexarobinson2850

3 жыл бұрын

Hard agree

@CrowBride

2 жыл бұрын

AGREE 💯

@linklanre

Жыл бұрын

Fully agree

_By definition you can't make a difference_ _If the big ambition is simply standing sentry to your innocence_ fuuuuuuuck bro. That's powerful poetry right there.

This song, Gatekeeper, Not all men, boys will be boys, what it means to be a girl are all very good songs that represent what women have to live through.

As a man, this is like a glimpse into a whole 'nother world. It never really hit me that this is the reality for a lot of women. :/

@TzarinaOfLies

2 жыл бұрын

All women subconsciously.

@ashleyrichards2701

Жыл бұрын

@@TzarinaOfLies well….

@vampiregumball

Жыл бұрын

It's the reality for all women. It's better in some places, but misogyny appears in so many ways that you wouldn't expect. Sometimes it's hard to spot even when you're experiencing it. Even when you've lived it for decades. It usually takes looking back on an interaction and thinking, "Was that because of (x), or was that because I'm a woman?"

@haeleysundin386

Жыл бұрын

All women *consciously* Our daily actions 100% take into account ways we can try to stay safe from men. Yes yes not all men. But it is all women.

@WeAreN1nja

Жыл бұрын

@@haeleysundin386 "Not all men". But enough men that y'all can't afford to risk it. Some of us get it. And we're sorry.

Honestly these lyrics could be easily read as a manifesto! So powerful!

@Jumungous

6 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more.

It's like she put words to everything I've felt since I was 13.

i honestly think anyone who’s ever been the victim of sexism or misogyny should listen to this song. dessa has really thought about these issues in this song and put things into words i felt like no one could communicate effectively. i’m in awe and in love.

Using this song to give me strength. My friend group and I are confronting my ex who molested and manipulated me, we are telling him he’s out of the group and to never contact any of us again. He even did it when I went to him for comfort because I was having nightmares about my child abuse. I’ve been listening to Dessa since middle school and she has always given me strength. I’m channeling her, younger me, and every other woman to get strength from this before. Here goes everything.

@LolaFleur3

4 жыл бұрын

Hope things are better for you now! ❤

I really like this song. The Patient 0 line is so good I wish I could listen to it on repeat. I do wish that the line “that formula works” had a qualifier like “might” or “could.” You can do everything we’re told to do for our safety and still get attacked. I am glad to have a song that gives voice to our fire drills. It would have been better if it acknowledged we still get burned and that the fault/responsibility lies with the pyros.

@Kittymouth

5 жыл бұрын

It's cause it's half a line. That formula works, but what it works at doing is putting the world off-limits.

@ChaiElemental

Ай бұрын

I feel the exact same.

Wtnv weather is back on point!

I’m not a woman, but being born AFAB helps me relate to this song, especially since I’m pre transition (thus everyone else thinks I’m a woman). Being a victim of multiple sexual crimes from as young as 7 has really affected me, and the notion of constantly running “fire drills” reminds me of how I have systems to prevent another attack no matter where I am or when it is. Always looking for where the closest 24H business is, aware of all open exits, making sure I have something I could use to protect myself, making sure I never run into the men who’ve attacked me, being constantly aware of where my attackers live and work and travel to, etc... it’s all so taxing and really feels like I’m constants running through worst case scenarios so I’m always ready to run or fight.

@kookoo4pandas

4 жыл бұрын

You'll always understand what its like to be born "the weaker sex"- that is the female experience- regardless of how you feel inside. I hope your transition is going well and you are happy

@yoohoodrinker566

4 жыл бұрын

Damn that's awful. I hate to say this but that's a uniquely female experience. Nobody can say you don't understand what it's like to be a woman.

@haggisa

4 жыл бұрын

graypetcoyle Hey, I hope you’re safe and ok, and if you had started your transition, that it’s going well. Sending internet hugs. ❤️❤️❤️

@leonijorna4891

Жыл бұрын

I think that she is worth I think that she deserves A better line of work Than motherfucking vigilance AFAB NB here, the rage of growing up perceived as female never leaves

This song...ugh. gut kicking, anger, being done with the status quo. The messed up way boys are brought up. Dessa...this lady has spoken to my soul many times over many years. Brilliant

This is one of the most underrated songs ever. Should be on Billboard 100.

This is why I never skip The Weather on Welcome to Night Vale.

I can't express how much I LOVE this song!!!! I've never heard a song match up the emotions of "horrible but true" with "empowerment to make a change" back-to-back so well. And the beat brings it all together perfectly. One of the facets of gender inequality I did not realize was related to my gender until I was older was the fear for my safety. That nudge of anxiety and having a friend or an exit plan when alone, in a new place, at night, with strangers, with new acquaintances. The lyrics highlight this beautifully; both the current struggle and the normal, equal, safe life we deserve. Dessa, thank you for this song.

I don't like a lot of her music, but this is single-handedly one of the most intelligent songs I've ever heard.

I just got here because I read her inspiring article in National Geographic and I decided to look this song up and it's amazing.

God this song is great. Wow

Wtnv knows what's up.

She's BACK

Goosebumps every time I hear this song. Amazing.

Of Dessa's many masterpieces, I think this one is the best. For now 💜

Dessa just now breaching after all these years... hasnt even reached her potential and shes already creating new shades of gray.

Preach! I'm sending this to my father and grandmother who can't understand why I moved across the world to see what else there is when I had a nice little picket fence laid out for me to pop babies into if I only put on that ring. No thanks

DAAAMMNNN this whole song is a quotable masterpiece

THANK YOU THIS IS EXACTLY IT SOMEONE SAID IT Dessa thank you so much

They should teach this to little boys!

this is seriously high on my top 10 list

Been a long time fan of Dessa...This is definitively next level. Heavy stuff with velvet voice...Won't forget this one.

Dec 3, Roseland theater, Portland, OR. First time experiencing her music. Incredible, mesmerizing performance! Couldn’t take my eyes off the stage. Thank you for rocking the house!! 10/10 would recommend

This song is completely unsettling to me, both in the music of the ending and the truth of the lyrics throughout. Really, in my life, I have not yet faced some of the extreme hardships a woman could go through (based on gender identity), except for umbrella experiences in social media and misguided remarks from my mother. But yet- I am also running fire drills. My mother is teaching me to run fire drills, and I am going even further on my own to practice them. She reminds me of things she does when we leave the store at night, and I go to self-defense classes every Wednesday. Perhaps a light along this dark tunnel is that we both take educating my brother on this extremely seriously. He doesn't take the initiative to learn, and I don't think he quite understands yet, but I will try my gosh darn best that he does. (We'll take what we can get from him.) The standard of "good enough" and "at least he's trying" is low, frustratingly and shamefully low, and we know this, but still. He knows enough, and I hope going to college in a few weeks can someone give him life experience to cement our point.

"You don't know the concessions that you're making until you catalog 'em, and by then they're many and you're battle-hardened" - damn, that's the line that hits hard for me. I'm about Dessa's age and there was definitely...a certain "climate" back when I was a kid, where you were told that the things you wanted were too much for being a girl, and any "boy" stuff that looked fun/cool was marketed *at* boys and you were just supposed to be like "oh ok, that's for boys, nevermind." That's what I was taught anyway, by the media and my older female relatives. I can't help but wonder if that's some of what she's referring to, especially with the added context of the official video (link is on the Doomtree website, it's "unlisted" here for some reason). The "patient zero" line is great too, but for me, I definitely don't blame the problematic conditions women live through solely on men, because as an AFAB person I've been exposed to plenty of toxic women too who've told me this is how life is supposed to be for us and that it's normal. A lot of the people in the world who perform female castrations, for example, are women themselves who are steeped in tradition and for various reasons, won't try to change things. Anyone who's complicit in giving women undesirable roles in society is a problem, regardless of gender. My mom wanted me to present myself like a sex object to try to get male attention, but I was lucky enough to have a dad (they were divorced) who rejected social norms and wasn't a pervert and didn't care that I liked video games better than Barbies or wore baggy clothes. He doesn't know it, but he helped me realize I'm a demigirl, not a woman, and I'll never forget that. Power to Dessa for such an intuitive song, I come here often.

Already pre-ordered this album! Man I wish she would come to my state, I would love to see her live.

shes a genius...

Done running fire drills. I am going to jump in the fire!

ANGELS CAN'T WATCH EVERYBODY ALL THE TIME

go out and be brave... i love that

So good! Can't get why she isn't popular.

@BadDubII

6 жыл бұрын

This. It annoys me people look up to the likes of Nicki Minaj when females like Dessa exist.

@sabrielskarp2176

6 жыл бұрын

Bad Dub Exactly! Same for me.

@85AGC

6 жыл бұрын

Too woke for the masses

@herrneureiter9611

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I was introduced to her a few days ago when watching Mark Grondin’s review of “Chime,” and the record absolutely blew me away. It’s an amazing genre-pushing hip hop album, and in my opinion, “Fire Drills” is by far the strongest song off of it - it’s one of the best songs I have ever heard. An utterly phenomenal piece of commentary on street harassment and the culture that enables it. Honestly, one of the most infuriating things in mainstream hip hop during the last couple of years was hearing Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” be praised as feminist. Of course, I’m not saying that female empowerment cannot be sexual; however, buying into the role as an object and embracing the idea of being eye candy is definitely NOT feminist. If you truly want good rap music about the ways the patriarchy affects women in their everyday lives, “Fire Drills” is exactly the song to listen to. However, I believe that is exactly why she is not popular. It’s kind of hard to be a woman in mainstream hip hop, especially if you don’t like the idea of being viewed the way the patriarchy wants you to.

@ottam

5 жыл бұрын

It's not because she's a woman. You cited Nicki Minaj, and she's massively popular. As for not following "the patriarchy", Lauryn Hill didn't sexualize herself and she was huge. Dessa isn't mainstream because she is too intelligent and won't compromise her craft. Nobody wants to hear about Bertrand Russell, Prometheus, St Thomas Aquinas, and "Death of a Salesman" in hip-hop. People are too stupid to understand it. Go listen to "Velodrome" and her brilliant take on the philosophical problem of free will, or listen to POS' "Low Light Low Life" and listen to her line about melting down (liberty) bells. You don't need to needlessly complicate it with patriarchy theory. She's just too smart for the average person to appreciate.

CANNOT WAIT. CANNOT WAIT.

Yes! She's back!

@drpepperr

6 жыл бұрын

I hear that! So powerful.

This is so powerful! You put it into words wow

omg Dessa

So sonically pleasing .. Thanks Delta

I love this. So happy to have new music from Dessa again; never disappoints. Never Dessappoints. :-D

I love this song

This is an amazing song!!! I love it!

Yup!

I never pre-order albums! I just made an exception for CHIME!

GREAT SONG

So pleased with dessa the music is Phenomenal

Preach Dessa preach!

Damn! This is a fantastic song! That's a hell of a first verse!

yesssss dessa thank you!!

Another awesome song, and video... Blew the MFN walls off!!

I think Dessa x Sage Francis would be my favorite thing ever.

F 👍yes

Eieeeee!!!! I cannot wait for a new album.

Battle cry

素晴らしい！ Great!

Chills I have chills

Thank you, Kevin..

The thing is, that formula doesn't even work that well. You still get victimized, just not by strangers.

Wow!!! Killer!!!

Amazing. I hate that women are made to suffer for the decisions of lesser humans. Not all of us men are bad, but enough of us that I am embarrassed by my own fellow gender mates. Dessa, you have been in my top 10 rapper list for a long while.

Brllliant.

Şahane

running fire frills.

Still waiting for Dessa and Atmosphere to collab

@Merble

6 жыл бұрын

Dessa and Grieves would have a neat sound together :D

@FirstLast-le5ip

6 жыл бұрын

No thanks. Atmosphere is overrated.

@BadDubII

6 жыл бұрын

I have to disagree wholeheartedly

@SpaceViking1

6 жыл бұрын

James P Honey, Ceschi, Tink, Supa Bwe

@Furthericity

6 жыл бұрын

"alanis morrisette...."

fuck this gave me chills

This song is so raw like fuck

🔥🔥🔥

Does anyone know what's layered over the part where she's saying "We're running fire drills" at the end? It looks like something under a magnifying glass.

@EvilIceCreamPictures

6 жыл бұрын

the visual? Its a film burn like what happens when film gets caught in the gate and heats up and melts.

@josh0g

6 жыл бұрын

I think it is supposed to be paint that is bubbling and melting in the heat of a fire. Cool visual.

@tximinoman

6 жыл бұрын

Evil Ice Cream Pictures, the fact that people don't know this makes me feel incredibly old.

@BirbMom

6 жыл бұрын

Josh G No, as Evil Ice Cream Pictures said, it's a film burn, when film heats up and melts.

Half these views are me

So fucking powerful. I never tire of listening to this song. A true feminist athem.

For those who need it: I've been Wendy Living with the Lost Boys Youth spent as a deckhand on the convoy Moved every night to prove we were something Got confused if it was from or to that we were running I've seen Gibraltar I've seen the Taj Mahal Soweto, Hagia Sophia Chefchaouen paints their walls blue I've played to full rooms I've played the fool too Burning through the bottoms of a pair of new boots Cut my hair, tape my tits down A woman on her own must be from out of town Funny, you don't know the concessions that you're making Until you catalog 'em And by then they're many and you're battle-hardened Heat makes liquid of the asphalt Keepsakes and parking tickets on the dashboard I'm here to file my report as the vixen of the wolf pack Tell Patient Zero he can have his rib back You can count my ribs Wanna know what class I'm in Count my You can count my ribs You can't be too broke to break As a woman always something left to take So you shouldn't try to stay too late or talk to strangers Look too long, go too far out of range 'cause Angels can't watch everybody all the time Stay close, hems low, safe inside That formula works if you can live it But it works by putting half the world off limits You can count my ribs Wanna know what class I'm in Count my You can count my ribs, my We don't say, "Go out and be brave" Nah, we say "Be careful, stay safe" In any given instance, that don't hurt But it sinks in like stilettos in soft earth Like the big win is not a day without an incident I beg to differ with it I think a woman's worth I think that she deserves A better line of work Than motherfucking vigilance Don't give me vigilance By definition you can't make a difference If the big ambition Is simply standing sentry to your innocence That's not a way to live That can't be what a woman is That gives her nothing to aspire to What that is What that is Is just a life of running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills (you can count my) We're running fire drills We're running fire drills (you can count my ribs) We're running fire drills We're running fire drills We're running fire drills

Sureshot Big UPS Fromm Berlin

Is there an instrumental version?

My english is good, but I think something's getting lost in translation. Can somebody pls explain the ribs thing?

@lowelldeo7843

2 жыл бұрын

The Bible says God took a rib from Adam to create Eve. Hence the antiquated notion men are superior to women. Patient Zero equals Adam.

@StrangeTheEditor

2 жыл бұрын

@@lowelldeo7843 Cheers.

THIS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH A SONG OF A FIRE DRILLS

@d.lan3y

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, what?

@the1stanimekaratepup

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's called a metaphor. I don't know how much to explain because I don't know how old you are. I'm sorry if you were looking for a fire drill video and found this instead.

I have some negative thoughts about certain types of feminism but actually acting out not only equality but fearless dominance is something I can get behind.

do a track with Tom MacDonald

I hate fire drills.

I love this song and adore the message, but... "Vixen of the wolf pack"... a vixen is a female fox...

@SableCatDog

5 жыл бұрын

That's the point, she's not like them.

@the1stanimekaratepup

4 жыл бұрын

There's also a part on one of Jack London's novels--I think it's White Fang?--where vixens lure the wolves away and then eat them. Idk if that's a message here, but that's what it reminds me of.

Nicki Minaj who?