Zero
by Otep

Album: Generation Doom (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • On this track, lead singer Otep Shamaya makes it clear that she just don't give a f--k. "I just want to remind everybody that I don't," she said in her Songfacts interview.

    The song is the first track on Generation Doom, the band's seventh album. It sets the tone of uprising and rebellion.
  • Otep touches on some social and political issues in the first verse:

    You want me to save the world
    While your lungs get black
    And your ocean's whirl
    And you feed and breed
    This kingdom of s--t


    She is a vegan who takes a strong stand against animal agriculture, and also an advocate for working to stop global warming.

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