It’s fitting that International Women’s Day is the day that Anna Wise’s new song ‘BitchSlut’ came this way.
Like last week’s Everything Shook song, The song addresses the expectation on females by a male-dominated society. “I know what kind you are / If I say no, I’m a bitch / Say yes I’m a slut,” she sings cheerily on a woozy hip-hop beat. The song calls out those false perceptions that men have of women in public, something, maddeningly happening still in my own city all too regularly.
I’m walking down the street with my hands tied
Cause I wore a skirt, you think I’m down to ride
You think I wanna fuck cause I comb my hair
Cause I’m at the bar next to an open chair
Cause I always have to be polite
Cause I look you in the eye
Cause I grin back, green light
Go ahead, give it a try
Wise featured on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. and last week’s newly released untitled unmastered. She’ll release her own EP later this year.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
