Meredith Brooks - "Bitch"
I’m a bitch too, but I’m not advertising.
Brooks’ 1997 hit gave every female some lyrics to shout out loud while driving in their cars but why were we all so excited to show our inner crazy?
If she has anything going for her Alanis Morrissette wannabe song, it’s that she is at least honest. But the honesty might be going a bit too far. For someone whose personality changes every season, it seems like she needs a few more adjectives in addition to bitch, lover, child, mother, sinner, saint, hell, and dream. I guess single and lunatic didn’t seem as empowering as all of the above.
Don’t get your panties in a twist - I’m all for being your own person. That’s great, be a lover or a sinner. I’m with Brooks’ on the fact you don’t have to be happy all the time, you can in fact be a bitch. But come on, trying to use a song to change social archetypes in one fell swoop? Please, your pop song about stereotypes isn’t going to cut it.
We get it, bitch is a derogatory term used by people to subvert women, and if we can just reclaim the meaning of the word, things would be different, and women wouldn’t be expected to be Mary Sunshine all day. That’s sweet. It would be more correct to say some of us get it, because the rest of the world just thinks you made it badass to own up to being a bitch. Unfortunately, the political message gets lost in all the empowerment of what it means to claim bitchdom.
And what kind of badass goes on to write a children’s album? Apparently Meredith Brooks is not as bitchin’ as we thought.
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