Australian punk band Bloods packs a lot of content into the one minute and forty-eight seconds of “BOSS.” And that content is a brash and bold statement of self-assertion of intent that reclaims the pejorative description of a certain type of female expression as “girl boss” by simply going with “BOSS,” a succinct, effective and direct dispensing with niceties the same way one must stop with being a “nice girl” in a “big bad world” because if you act in the narrow constraints of being nice as conceived by an ignorant and sexist society you get run over. Bloods are having none of that because doing so means you never get what you want and deferring to other people on everything forever is not just unsustainable but no sane society or one worth living in puts people under the thumb that way. And hey, just abstract the sentiment to your situation and it works. There is of course no contradiction between being a nice person and refusing to be a doormat but sometimes you have to spell it out to people (as this song cleverly does) and insist your dignity matters in the least conciliatory way possible. Watch the lively video for “BOSS” on YouTube and connect with Bloods on Spotify.
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