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Music Review: 'The Donnas Turn 21'

The Donnas
Reviewed by Evan Serpick | Jan 19, 2001
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: The Donnas; Genre: Rock

Armed with guitar-driven ditties as tight as their leather pants and lyrics sharper than those of artists twice their age, the newly legal pop-punk saviors dole out another dose of Ramones-style dope. Donna A.'s whip-smart words alternate between crude overtures (''I'll let you flip my flipper/If you let me unzip your zipper'') and prideful boasts (''Forty boys in forty nights/I ain't got no time to see the sights''). Perhaps no band has more credibly covered Judas Priest's ''Livin' After Mindnight.'' A-

Originally posted Jan 19, 2001 Published in issue #578 Jan 19, 2001 Order article reprints

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