"Beck's bass player (Justin Meldal-Johnsen) suggested I do a cover of Slayer's 'Raining Blood," she says applying strawberry lip balm with her pinkie. "I was reading about what was going on in Afghanistan--the way women were being oppressed, the destruction of religious statues. And when i heard that song, i just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers."
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Composers from the United StatesSinger-songwriters from the United StatesAlternative rock singersPianists from the United StatesOrganists from the United States
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Interview in Spin Magazine, 2001
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