HIVE OPEN MIC 132 / Bitch Cover

Hi and Hello, fellow Hive Music Lovers most especially to the @hiveopenmic community. I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe wherever they are. Thank you massive to @discouragedones, the community's most recent Spotlight Artist for choosing this week's wonderful and engaging theme, "Woman Life Freedom."

I've chosen the song 'Bitch' to match this week's theme. It was a song by Meredith Brooks, a singer-songwriter and guitarist from the United States. She performed the song in the alternative rock genre and she rose to fame after her song "Bitch" spent weeks on the music charts. She was also nominated twice at the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song. The song was certified platinum in Australia.

I loved how the song proved that alternative music wasn't solely for men in the 1990s. Along with questioning gendered society's expectations, the lyrics highlight a woman's multifaceted personality, demonstrating that we, women are entitled to a range of feelings, and it's okay.

Song: Bitch
By: Meredith Brooks
Lyrics Source: here

Lyrics

I hate the world today
You're so good to me
I know but I can't change
Tried to tell you
But you look at me like maybe
I'm an angel underneath
Innocent and sweet

Yesterday I cried
You must have been relieved
To see the softer side
I can understand how you'd be so confused
I don't envy you
I'm a little bit of everything
All rolled into one

I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm a child
I'm a mother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
And I do not feel ashamed

I'm your hell
I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way

So take me as I am
This may mean you'll have to be a stronger man
Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous
And I'm going to extremes
Tomorrow I will change
And today won't mean a thing

I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm a child
I'm a mother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
And I do not feel ashamed
I'm your hell
I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way

Just when you think you've got me figured out
The season's already changin'
I think it's cool you do what you do
And don't try to save me

I'm a bitch
I'm a lover
I'm a child
I'm a mother
I'm a sinner
I'm a saint
And I do not feel ashamed
I'm your hell
I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
You know you wouldn't want it any other way

I'm a bitch
I'm a tease
I'm a goddess on my knees
When you hurt
When you suffer
I'm your angel undercover
I've been numb
I'm revived
Can't say I'm not alive
You know I wouldn't want it any other way

Thank YOU!

❤️
chichi18