Thursday, 30 January 2014

"Feminist" songs

With the emergence of active feminism, many songs from the past decade are labelled as "feminist', because of the lyrics, the underlying meaning, or even because of who the artist is. Some examples include:

Lily Allen ~ "22":
"It's sad but it's true how society says her life is already over,
There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say,
Til the man of her dreams comes along and picks her up and puts her over his shoulder.
It seems so unlikely in this day and age."


Cyndi Lauper ~ "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun":
"The phone rings in the middle of the night, my father yells what you gonna do with your life
Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one, but girls, they want to have fun.
Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world,
I want to be the one to walk in the sun"


Green Day ~ "She":
"Are you locked up in a world that's been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?
She's figured out all her doubts were someone else's point of view
Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self-control"


Pink ~ "Stupid Girls":
"The world believes it and I'm going crazy, I cannot take any more
I'm so glad that I'll never fit in, that will never be me

Outcasts and girls with ambition, that's what I wanna see"

Robyn ~ "Who's That Girl":
"Who's that girl that you dream of? Who's that girl that you think you love?
Who's that girl? Well I'm nothing like her
I know there's no such girl"

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