“Supervixen” by Garbage

"Supervixen" comes from Garbage's 1995 debut album, and it takes its name from the 1975 film Supervixens. Shirley Manson's lyric circles around idolization and worship, while the music is built from pitch-shifted guitars and sudden drops into silence, again and again, so the song keeps yanking the floor out from under you. Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig wrote it together, Vig produced, the band engineered it themselves, and Mike Kashou guests on bass.

Almo sent it to alternative radio as a promotional single in October 1996. It never did much commercially, but critics warmed to it, and plenty of them picked it out as one of the album's high points. An early demo finally surfaced in 2015 on the album's 20th anniversary reissue.

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