I’ve been working on an art project that explores neoliberalism through music and had the idea to mix Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” (1980) with Britney Spears’s “Work B**ch” (2013). I read scholars discuss generations of feminism so I wanted to put feminism and post-feminism in conversation with each other. It was surreal that I worked on it in the morning/afternoon only to realize that Dolly Parton had passed away while I had been thinking about her all day! What a loss. Editing a song she released before I was born, she is still part of the ongoing conversation about women working for equality.
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Biography.com Editors. “How Dolly Parton Wrote Her Working Woman's Anthem, '9 to 5.'” Biography.com. Last modified June 24, 2020. https://www.biography.com/musicians/dolly-parton-9-to-5-theme-song.
Spears, Britney. “Work Bitch.” Track 2 on Britney Jean. RCA Records, 2013, streaming audio. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/track/3KliPMvk1EvFZu9cvkj8p1.
