Tacocat - The Joke of Life

What this video is

Released April 17, 2019, as the third and final pre-release single from Tacocat's fourth album 'This Mess Is a Place' (Sub Pop, May 3, 2019), 'The Joke of Life' emerged from the politically saturated atmosphere of late-2010s America. The band — formed in Seattle in 2007 and rooted in feminist DIY pop-punk — used the video's anarchic, self-shot collage format to embody the song's central thesis: that contemporary…

Why it matters

The video stands as a document of the post-riot grrrl Seattle feminist punk continuum in the streaming era, demonstrating how DIY video aesthetics persisted as a deliberate artistic and political choice even after bands signed to prominent indie labels like Sub Pop. Its collage-montage format…