La Sécurité: “Hot Topic”

Do Hot Topic stores still exist? Do you even remember what they are? You know, the pop culture retail shops, mostly located in malls, that marketed bedazzled accessories, makeup, novelty items, and t-shirts with brilliant slogans like “Boy Toy”?

La Sécurité seems to be singing about something else in our highlighted track “Hot Topic.” But maybe there’s a throughline between the Montreal band’s grrrl-powered electropop and the gateway to preteen gothdom of yesteryear. Hot Topic the retail store was nothing if not an affordable means to trade among different subculture identities, some or all of which were guaranteed to worry your parents. What more could a young adult ask for from capitalism?

Stream, share, buy to your heart’s content.

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