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Free Woman is a Dance-pop act. Their sound grew out of La Bouche and Cher. Those roots explain a lot about how Free Woman arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Rina Sawayama, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Free Woman, reaching back through La Bouche and forward to Rina Sawayama. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Free Woman" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga recorded for her sixth studio album Chromatica (2020). Gaga co-wrote it with the song's producers BloodPop, Axwell and Johannes Klahr. "Free Woman" was released as the album's fifth track, several weeks after a high-quality demo version of the song was leaked onto the Internet. It is a Eurohouse and Eurodance song that draws influences from the music of the 1990s. Gaga was inspired by her real life events; the song talks about her coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), from which she suffered after being sexually assaulted by a music producer. Gaga also wanted to celebrate her LGBT+ fans; she wrote the song especially with the trans community in mind. The song's lyrics talk about reclaiming one's identity and answer the question "what does it mean to be a free woman?".
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Free Woman grew out of La Bouche and Cher, went on to shape Rina Sawayama. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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