Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics and members of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers band perform the feminist song Sisters are Doin' It For Themselves, released 1985. Video clips featuring women in various roles through history are answered with the song's chorus, with flashy, festive scenes of Franklin and Lennox dancing to the message that modern women refuse to be oppressed by societal expectations any longer. Subsequent scenes of modern women, some in nontraditional roles (especially for 1985) intercut with the musical performance sequences assert that successful women proceed independently with their lives, despite pressure to be led. Franklin's closing spoken line in the video leaves viewers in no doubt of women's agency in their own lives to sieze the day. "Thank you, I'll get it myself."
Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (1985 Music Video)
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safenoe7 May 2024
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Sisters are Doin' It for Themselves is nearly 40 years old, and it's timeless and speaks to the times and also to future generations. Sisters are Doin' It for Themselves was performed by the Eurythmics, Aretha Franklin and some of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers (Mike Campbell on lead guitar, Benmont Tench on organ, and Stan Lynch on drums). The song is very rousing and can be set to many situations, and in some ways was the forerunner of the movements we see especially now, and the role of women in politics, sports, industry, religion, medicine, law, popular culture, social media, literature, cuisine.
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