[2] Hanna recalled: [It] was made as Bikini Kill was in breaking up, a guy who worked across the street from my apartment building was stalking me and I was being treated, in my own community, like a historical oddity.

[3]She cited two albums, Girl Talk[4] by Lesley Gore and Delete Yourself[5] by Atari Teenage Riot, among the inspirations for hers.

[6]Hanna started collaborating with her friends Sadie Benning and Johanna Fateman to create a live band to perform songs from the album.

[7] In December 2010, Hanna and former Bikini Kill bandmate Kathi Wilcox formed a band called the Julie Ruin.

[8] The New York Times noted the "charmingly unruly jumble of sounds and influences: the cheesy tick of a drum machine up against the manic buzz of electric guitar, the frenzied spirit of punk overlapping the demure coo of 60's girl groups.