YAS! Gwen Stefani opens up about her feminist anthem Just A Girl
Gwen Stefani's 1995 hit Just A Girl, which she penned for her band at the time No Doubt, is hailed as a catchy feminist anthem.
Defining herself as "pro-woman," the bleach-blonde singer reflected on the message behind her song in a behind-the-scenes video, and opened up about what inspired her to write the song.
“I can remember thinking, ‘Wow, I’m in the car right now, I’m driving home, it’s like one in the morning and if something did happen to me, I’m vulnerable because I’m a girl," she said.
"And you start to think, ‘Wow, maybe people actually look at me different because I am a female."
“I just wanted to write a song to express how I was feeling in that moment and I never in my wildest dreams thought that anyone would hear it,” she admitted. after saying that she penned the track at a time when she thought that she couldn't write music.
“I think that when I do that song now, it still feels like it represents, it’s beyond an age, it just represents a feeling so I feel really proud of it.”
The song represents the frustration felt by Gwen ta the time as her parents were exceptionally overprotective of her because of her gender.
"My parents were quite strict with me and I was living at home, even into my 20s."
"And I would have to come home and knock my parents’ door. And it was frustrating because I was already like older,” she recalled.
We feel you Gwen, we feel you.
