Upon first listening to Halsey and Alanis Morissette’s new song, Alanis’ interlude, I was immediately struck by how generationally appropriate it is. Moving into the future, there is a tangible trend towards the fluidity of attraction and pushing for true freedom of sexual expression. There is an urgent desire in modern generations to eliminate the historical habit of boxing people into categories that suppress their desires and cause them to hide in the bathroom stalls.
Here, in this song, are two women passionately begging not to be boxed in by these defined gender norms. That is why the teaming of these two artists for this song is so engagingly symbiotic. Alanis Morissette has built a career on songs which actively complained about the shortcomings of traditional relationships and sexual encounters during a generation still entrenched in traditional gender and sexual labeling. Meanwhile, Halsey is growing her career representing a younger generation who take pride in their ability to liquify gender norms and relationship definitions while hovering on the cusp of actual, true sexual freedom.
A common binding principle, this desire to live and love freely, has drawn these two women together to fight side by side for change of the sexual status quo. Let this new generation guide us into a more accurate definition of what it means to be free in our desire to be loved. These are urging society to behave progressively for the very reason laid out in the final lines of the song, sung hauntingly by Alanis, “‘cause he and she is her, and her and he are love, and I have never felt the difference...tired of all these labels.”
Upon first listening to Halsey and Alanis Morissette’s new song, Alanis’ interlude, I was immediately struck by how generationally appropriate it is. Moving into the future, there is a tangible trend towards the fluidity of attraction and pushing for true freedom of sexual expression. There is an urgent desire in modern generations to eliminate the historical habit of boxing people into categories that suppress their desires and cause them to hide in the bathroom stalls.
Here, in this song, are two women passionately begging not to be boxed in by these defined gender norms. That is why the teaming of these two artists for this song is so engagingly symbiotic. Alanis Morissette has built a career on songs which actively complained about the shortcomings of traditional relationships and sexual encounters during a generation still entrenched in traditional gender and sexual labeling. Meanwhile, Halsey is growing her career representing a younger generation who take pride in their ability to liquify gender norms and relationship definitions while hovering on the cusp of actual, true sexual freedom.
A common binding principle, this desire to live and love freely, has drawn these two women together to fight side by side for change of the sexual status quo. Let this new generation guide us into a more accurate definition of what it means to be free in our desire to be loved. These are urging society to behave progressively for the very reason laid out in the final lines of the song, sung hauntingly by Alanis, “‘cause he and she is her, and her and he are love, and I have never felt the difference...tired of all these labels.”