![]() It’s a defiance that says the Harvey Weinsteins of the world will not continue to keep women under their thumbs as silent, complacent, good girls who are expected to swallow traumatic recollections and their reverberations in order to keep the power structures balancing the patriarchy from falling in on itself. More than 10 years after “Long Way To Happy,” “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken” is an updated reminder to P!nk and the women of the world that, like the bittersweet sentiment of “Beautiful Trauma” itself, there’s a unifying strength underlying the darkness - that a century after the Suffragettes started their first formations of feminism and demands of equality, resistance and persistence is not only necessary, but ingrained within us as women. “Long Way to Happy” co-writer Butch Walker told PopMatters of the song: “Well, obviously when we go into the studio it’s going to be pretty emotional time, so let’s make sure the vocal goes down naturally and, sure enough, she was practically in tears when she sang it. And that’s that song,” she told The Independent the year I’m Not Dead was released. “I know a lot of people that have been abused and/or molested and/or fucked over by someone close to them. It’s worth noting that in 2006, her album I’m Not Dead included the song “Long Way to Happy,” which P!nk said was based on a poem she’d written about surviving sexual abuse by a cop when she was a teen. She publicly acknowledges and supports other female artists, including those that she’s had less-than-friendly relationships with in the past (she now say she doesn’t hold grudges) and those the press attempts to pit against her or vice versa. “I will have to die for this I fear/ There’s rage and terror and there’s sickness here,” P!nk starts on “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken.” “I fight because I have to/ I fight for us to know the truth/ There’s not enough rope to tie me down/ There’s not enough tape to shut this mouth/ The stones you throw can make me bleed/ But I won’t stop until we’re free.”Ī self-professed feminist (in interviews, not the doc itself), Pink is not just proud to be a woman, but frequently speaks and sings about the current landscape of how men and women to relate, as well as how women relate to one another. " I'm a long time a fan of Jodi Siegel's music~ Her singing has such a pleasing quality. MARIA MULDAUR (MULTIPLE AWARD WINNING SINGER AND ENTERTAINER) But, Jodi makes this all hers, she owns it, and every time I hear it, I’m totally hooked! Oh, and did I say she can play the hell out of a guitar? Take a listen, you won’t be sorry my friend." There are, to me, bits of these artists sprinkled here, and there throughout the songs, and arrangements. Her vocal delivery is just so cool, and is it an illusion, or does her voice keep getting better, and better as the album plays? It’s hard not to make comparisons to other artists one might be familiar with Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Al Green, Billie Holiday, these are a few that come to mind. If you just put it on, and let it move from song to song, you come out at the end, a little more contented, fulfilled, and certain about the future. Every damn song has a story to tell, and lessons for us to learn. When they’re performed really well, with incredible vocals, a steamy rhythm section, and other musicians who can really play, and sing their asses off, count me in! When I haven’t heard Jodi Siegel’s album, Wild Hearts, in a while, and I put it on, all I can think is, “Where have you been?” Man I love this record! The songs are so soulful, in the pocket, and somehow speak directly to the heart. I love songs, especially when they’re good ones. "I have this subjective way of listening to music when there are lyrics, and singing involved.
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