The Hive

There is a strong feminist stance in women’s music, however; and that was largely absent from the music scene in the mid-1970’s, Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” (1972) notwithstanding.  Jimmy Webb is not a songwriter where one would expect feminist sensibilities, but Meg Christian reworks his song “The Hive” as a tale of female oppression – not at all the way that Richard Harris performed the song several years earlier.  

(January 2014)