Proud woman
| Proud woman | |
|---|---|
| Blues pills | |
| publication | March 6, 2020 |
| length | 3:40 |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock |
| Author (s) | Elin Larsson Zack Anderson André Kvarnström |
| album | Holy Moly! |
Proud Woman is a song by the Swedish blues rock band Blues Pills . It was released on March 6, 2020 as the first single from their third album Holy Moly!
Emergence
The song was written by singer Elin Larsson, guitarist Zack Anderson and drummer André Kvarnström within an hour. According to Zack Anderson, the band was just the jam , spontaneous as Elin Larsson, the words "I'm a Proud Woman" ( Engl. : I am a proud woman ) on a guitar riff sang. Proud Woman was produced by the band and mixed by Andrew Scheps. The intro of the song comes from a documentary about a women's uprising in the late 1960s. Directed by Patric Ullaeus one was music video rotated. The single and video were released on March 6, 2020, two days before International Women's Day .
content
Proud Woman is a power anthem for all strong women and girls that they can hear when they need strength or just want to have fun. According to the singer Elin Larsson, it would have been time for such a text to be written.
“When you're a woman or non-binary in the music business, it sometimes seems like gender is more important than music. As a woman, you are belittled, threatened, stared at, ridiculed, and bullied in a way that men in the music industry rarely see. And yet there are women who have made as strong a mark on this business as men and still do, despite all the obstacles that are thrown in their way just because they are women, which makes their achievements even more meaningful . "
According to Elin Larsson, no one in the band expected the song to bring up such a controversial topic. Your record company Nuclear Blast had to deactivate the comment column under the YouTube video of the song after the users' comments no longer referred to the song, but instead were misogynistic views.
reception
Jan Schwarzkamp from the German magazine Visions described Proud Woman as a song that “contains all the strengths of the band”. According to Björn Springorum from the online magazine uDiscover, the song is “feverish and ecstatic”, the message “as important as it is universal”. Ben Foitzik from Eventim described Proud Woman as a “terrific rock anthem”, which is not only a “great song”, but also pillories the male-dominated music business.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Stark: Back from the past . In: Rock It! , Issue 119, page 10
- ↑ a b Ronny Bittner: We thought the band was over . In: Rock Hard, September 2020, page 18
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: BLUES PILLS - 'Proud Woman' video from the upcoming 'Holy Moly' album released. Rock Hard , accessed March 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Jan Schwarzkamp: Blues Pills vote for new album "Holy Moly!" one with song "Proud Woman". Visions , accessed March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Björn Springorum: "Proud Woman": The new single from the Blues Pills celebrates femininity! uDiscover, accessed March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Ben Foitzik: For International Women's Day: BLUES PILLS publish new hymn “Proud Woman”. CTS Eventim , accessed March 18, 2020 .