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Youtube…. We were going along building an audience slowly but surely and then yesterday BOOM!, we were the featured video – not paid for, not solicited, it just happened – and all of a sudden there are a quarter of a million views in just 24 hours and this little innocent video we made ourselves is causing an absolute gender war online. “It’s A Woman Thang” was just written as a fun song and video. Bubbles & Cheesecake is about discovering your true self through creative expression. It’s as much a DIY arts and crafts project as it is anything. The hook line of the song is “When you think that you don’t know what you know when you know that you really do know/ It’s a dirty ol shame in a dirty ol game that you let your power go. That’s a woman thang.” Yes, that IS particularly a woman thang but the real message here is self expression is a human thang – so discover yourself, be proud of who you are and figure out some positive way of showing it. Simple, no grand political grandstanding going on here. Well…… check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_VXWO5SKo if you really want to get scared by the state of female equality in 2007. It’s the dream of every artist to create work that inspires coversations that expose prejudice and bring issues left smoldering in a corner to the center of the room. I’ve been there before, most recently with the musical version of The Color Purple. But this one’s a real trip because “It’s A Woman Thang” is just a happy hooky song about standing up. Well, I guess it’s going to be a very interesting ride…
http://www.bubblesandcheesecake.com/blog/2007/11/26/youtube/