Pussy Riot’s "Don’t Cry Genocide" Featuring Le Tigre Members Appears on "House of Cards"

Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina recently revealed that they’d been working with Le Tigre’s JD Samson and Johanna Fateman. They later revealed to Pitchfork that they’d recorded two songs. One of those songs appeared on an episode in the newest season of Netflix’s “House of Cards”, which featured Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina.

In the episode, fictional Russian president Viktor Petrov (Lars Mikkelsen, in an obvious nod to Putin) attends a state dinner in Washington which is attended by Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina. After receiving a condescending toast from the Putin-inspired character, they offer a scalding dedication of their own before storming out.

The episode ends with the Samson and Fateman-assisted song “Don’t Cry Genocide”. Watch the credits sequence below via Revolt.

Fateman wrote a detailed article about the experience of working with Pussy Riot and working on “House of Cards” in an Art in America article:

JD and I were taken to a trailer where we changed our clothes, and we did the thing you’re not supposed to do—sign a contract without reading it. This one was like 50 pages long, but whatever; we were going to be actors now and we were just going to follow instructions. The truth is, it really doesn’t matter how smart you are, what a bitch you can be, or how far back your feminism goes. In these situations, you have no control, and if you think that you do, you’re just going to be upset when the episode airs.

Read the whole thing here.

Pussy Riot recently worked with Richard Hell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt for a song and video titled “I Can’t Breathe”. It featured Hell reading Eric Garner’s last words.

Read our recent interview with Pussy Riot.

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