When “You Don’t Own Me” resurfaced again by Grace and G Eazy in 2016, it was the beginning of what is now known as the “Me Too” movement against sexual assault and the year of the first Women’s March for equal rights and female reproductive rights.
Thinking about our time in history when the song was re-released, the lyrics now not only point towards female empowerment but to the ability for a woman to take back the right to her own body and claim it as her own as well as claiming her reproductive rights.
“I’m young and I love to be young/ I’m free and I love to be free/ To live my life the way I want/ To say and do whatever I please”
March 6, 2019 at 9:11 pm
Marina, I’m glad you are discussing the song in terms of the cover, but this and your third listen seem rushed. I wish you had expanded on your discussions significantly more.
B