"Racist, Sexist Boy" is nothing short of a banger that you'll gladly have stuck in your head for hours on end.
If you missed the story of how this song came to be, here's a little recap. The Linda Lindas are a half Asian and half Latinx teen punk rock band, comprised of Mila (10), Eloise (13), Lucia (14), and Bela (16). The quartet hit the big time when a video of their performance of "Racist, Sexist Boy" at the Los Angeles Public Library went viral.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the band chatted about how they came up with the name The Linda Lindas and how they first noticed their song had hit the big time. "There's a Japanese indie film called Linda Linda Linda and in it there are high school girls who cover the song "Linda Linda" by the Blue Hearts so we're kinda named after both of those," explained Eloise.
So, when did they first become aware that the whole world was listening to "Racist, Sexist Boy"? "I was in history class and my phone kept buzzing and my teacher kept looking at me like, what are you doing?" said Bela. "And then I opened my instagram and it's like my whole feed is of us and I was just like, whoa."
The idea for the song came after a boy in Mila's class came up to her and said his dad told him to stay away from Chinese people. "After I told him I was Chinese he backed away from me. Eloise and I wrote this song based on that experience," Mila said during the LA Library performance.
Kimmel asked if the boy in question is aware of the song's existence — and its newfound fame. "It doesn't really matter anymore," said Mila.
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