Editing Beat Happening (section)

===Influence===
The English indie-pop band This Many Boyfriends are named after a Beat Happening song - namely The This Many Boyfriends Club. The Swedish band Friendly Boyfriend, likened to a "corrupted Beat Happening,"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tornlightrecords.com/shop/friendly-boyfriend-pick-up/|title=Friendly Boyfriend - Pick Up!|date=September 2021 |publisher=Torn Light Records|accessdate=December 12, 2021}}</ref> has a name that recalls the lyric "You got a friendly boyfriend" from Beat Happening's song "T.V. Girl." The United States band The Snogs have also been compared to Beat Happening,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.recordturnover.com/2020/04/15/the-snogs/|title=The Snogs|date=15 April 2020 |publisher=Record Turnover|accessdate=December 12, 2021}}</ref> and have released tracks such as "Tastes Like Candy," "Couple of Sleepyheads," and Teenage Sleepyhead" recalling Beat Happening song titles "Black Candy" and "Sleepy Head." 

Beat Happening's live performances stood out for Calvin's dancing moves (pogo, hula, and shimmy), which he'd seen on news reports about UK punks. His onstage behavior did not ingratiate the band to hardcore audiences when they toured with Fugazi in the late 1980s, and audiences were openly hostile, even throwing an ashtray at the band.<ref name=LoveRock3>{{cite book|last1=Baumgarten|first1=Mark|title=Love Rock Revolution|date=2012|publisher=Sasquatch Books|location=Seattle|isbn=978-1-57061-822-2|page=100}}</ref> Nonetheless, rock critic Michael Azzerrad suggests that Beat Happening "was a major force in widening the idea of a punk rocker from a mohawked guy in a motorcycle jacket to a nerdy girl in a cardigan."<ref name=Azzerrad>{{cite book|last=Azerrad|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Azerrad|title=[[Our Band Could Be Your Life]]|year=2002|publisher=[[Back Bay Books]]|pages=455–456|isbn=978-0-316-78753-6}}</ref> The presence of Heather Lewis on drums and Calvin's non-threatening stage presence presented a wider variety of behaviors and identities than other acts in the hardcore scene of the time, which was predominantly male and focused on aggression or hyper-masculinity.<ref name=Azzerrad/> Beat Happening has been cited as an influence on early [[riot grrl]] acts such as [[Bratmobile]]<ref name=Azzerrad/> and [[Kathi Wilcox]] of [[Bikini Kill]].<ref name=Rookie>{{cite web|last1=Wilcox|first1=Kathi|title=Bikini Kill: Girl Soldier (Interview)|date=8 April 2014 |url=https://www.rookiemag.com/2014/04/bikini-kill-premiere-2/|access-date=15 March 2015|ref=Rookie Magazine}}</ref> [[Kurt Cobain]] had the K Records logo tattooed on his forearm, saying it was to "try and remind me to stay a child."<ref>{{Cite book|last=True, Everett.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830122168|title=Nirvana : the biography|date=2007|publisher=Da Capo Press|others=OverDrive, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7867-3390-3|location=Cambridge, MA|oclc=830122168}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sandford, Christopher, 1956-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54691610|title=Kurt Cobain|date=2004|publisher=Carroll & Graf|isbn=0-7867-1369-0|edition=2nd Carroll & Graf ed., rev. & updated|location=New York|oclc=54691610}}</ref> The song "Lounge Act" on ''[[Nevermind]]'' references his logo tattoo in the line, “I'll arrest myself and wear a shield.” Cobain also played guitar on a K Records release, "Bikini Twilight," with Johnson, released as The Go Team.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baumgarten, Mark, 1978-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755697720|title=Love rock revolution : K Records and the rise of independent music|date=2012|publisher=Sasquatch Books|isbn=978-1-57061-822-2|location=Seattle|oclc=755697720}}</ref>

[[Calvin Johnson (musician)|Calvin Johnson]] was one of the founders of indie-rock label [[K Records]], and comprised one-half of the indie pop band [[The Go Team]], along with [[Tobi Vail]]; they had an approach and aesthetic similar to that of Beat Happening.