Cut Your Hair

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"Cut Your Hair" is an indie rock song by the American band Pavement, known for its catchy melody and satirical take on music industry image and commercialization.

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Cut Your Hair canonical 5
Cut Your Hair (music video) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
artist Pavement
chartPositionUKSingles 48
chartPositionUSAlternativeSongs 10
composer Stephen Malkmus
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresMusicalStyle catchy melody
lo-fi production
followedBy Gold Soundz
follows Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17
genre alternative rock
indie rock
hasBandMemberOnRecording Bob Nastanovich
Mark Ibold
Scott Kannberg
Stephen Malkmus
Steve West
hasInstrumentation bass guitar
drums
electric guitar
vocals
hasLyricsLanguage English
hasMusicVideo Cut Your Hair self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cut Your Hair (music video)
hasNotableLyric "Advertising looks and chops a must"
"I remember lying, I don't remember a line"
hasSubject commercialization of art
image over substance in popular music
music industry
hasTheme satire of music industry image and commercialization
includedInList Pitchfork
surface form: Pitchfork 500

best songs of the 1990s
isSignatureSongOf Pavement
language English
length 3:06
musicVideoDirector Zoe Trope
originalMedium audio recording
partOfAlbum Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
performer Pavement
producer Mark Venezia
Pavement
recordedBy Pavement
recordingPeriod 1992–1993
recordLabel Matador Records
releaseDate 1994-02-07
releaseYear 1994
writer Stephen Malkmus

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Pavement song Cut Your Hair
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain hasPart Cut Your Hair
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – 1994 notableTrack Cut Your Hair
subject surface form: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Cut Your Hair hasMusicVideo Cut Your Hair self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cut Your Hair (music video)
Gold Soundz precededBy Cut Your Hair