Girlfinder Songs #18 - "You Make Me Hot"

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Time now for a little fun. Errrr, time now for a lot of fun, actually. I pulled out my Girlfinder this morning, and found not one, not two, but FOUR girls! We are at #18: "You Make Me Hot" by The Donnas. Very Runaways-ish, The Donnas formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. The four girls were already, as Wikipedia calls them, a "metal queen" band called The Electrocutes, when they decided to form a second, less-metal group called The Donnas. (In order to maintain a distinction between their two bands, the girls looked no further than the Ramones, whose members all adopted the last name of "Ramone." While performing as The Donnas, each girl took the first name of "Donna," coupled with her own last initial.) While The Donnas originally found a foothold within the punk community, they have since experienced acceptance inside the mainstream (and have all stopped calling themselves "Donna,") with their music being used in movies, television shows, and video games. The band has also appeared on the main stage at Lollapolooza, on late night talk shows such as David Letterman, Jay Leno, as well as Saturday Night Live. 2:20 of pure, pop-punk fun, "You Make Me Hot" is the second track from the band's 1998 album (their second,) American Teenage Rock and Roll Machine. The tune has a definite Runaways/Joan Jett influence going on, and, I ask you - Is that really such a bad thing? (Info verified by Wikipedia)