on TV and you feel like you're going to throw up?" I feel like I can't look at him anymore because I get so physically freaked out and upset. I don't wanna be one of those "tune out, turn off" people, but I don't even know if I can mentally take watching him lie anymore. It makes me so angry and upset." Tell You Now "Tell You Now" is the only song on the album produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars. Ocasek had an active involvement in crafting the song and also helped the band shape their sound by giving the band a few "pop tricks". Fateman later commented on working with Ocasek: "That was an interesting experience working with him, but we never worked with anyone that early in the process who listened to our demo of the song and had structuring ideas and had someone who’s really a master of the pop formula. Having someone like that in the process was really rewarding and totally different, but really interesting." The song was singled out by many publications, including Pitchfork, as the album's best song. New Kicks "New Kicks" was described by the band's publicist as "a dance anthem made up of samples of anti-war speeches by Susan Sarandon, Al Sharpton, and others, punctuated by a 'Peace Up, War Down!' chant". The song has drawn similarities to their song "Dyke March 2001" from Feminist Sweepstakes due to its sampled chant approach. The songs' chants were recorded at the 15 February anti-war protests in Manhattan by JD Samson. It was released as the album's first single by the label ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention, something the band was not expecting to happen. The song's music video featured the band wearing "Stop Bush Now!" outfits, which despite being warned against by Universal as being too partisan, they wore anyway. Viz "Viz" is about JD Samson, and her experiences as a butch lesbian. Release In 2004, the band's label, Mr. Lady, notified the band ahead of time they were going to stop releasing new music. After some discussion, Le Tigre decided signed to major label Universal Records through Strummer, an imprint label run by Gary Gersh, the ex-president of Capitol Records. The band decided to sign to a major label due to the band's exhaustion of touring with no support, and because it would have given the band's politics