Boom-click, they smack when I stride

June 6, 2017 8:38 AM

Do you like diverse, joyous women of all sizes, lovingly filmed? Catchy, uplifting music you can sing along to that may just push everything else out of your head? Music videos produced and filmed on the streets of Bed-Stuy with locals? Well then, has the awesomely feminist Miss Eaves got a new video for you! Called by Jezebel the "feel-good video of the summer", the first track of Feminasty, 'Thunder Thighs' has been released unto the world. Warning: so many badass women you may find yourself watching it on repeat.
posted by corb (18 comments total)

This song has a really cool texture to it. Her vocal fry really comes out and much of the rest of the mix sounds lowpassed to specifically make space for that.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 8:56 AM on June 6, 2017 [4 favorites]

This is my sweaty Houston summer jam.

I also love that this video specifically centers women older than 40 years old.
posted by Brittanie at 9:01 AM on June 6, 2017 [11 favorites]

omg this is SO AWESOME. if you have never experienced summertime chub rub well...damn. I love seeing all those women and girls, all the sizes, colors, shapes and ages just reveling in ownership of their strong awesome bodies! and cool tune.
posted by supermedusa at 10:06 AM on June 6, 2017 [7 favorites]

That little girl with her deadpan attitude? I only wish I were that confident. This is excellent.
posted by minervous at 11:33 AM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]

My own absolute favorite is the buttoned up older woman, who you think is going to be disapproving the whole time but NOPE NOTHING BUT LOVE HERE.
posted by corb at 11:38 AM on June 6, 2017 [12 favorites]

holy actual crap the dance grammas aer my new life goal and im not even a lady anymore

hooray
posted by nixon's meatloaf at 12:18 PM on June 6, 2017 [3 favorites]

That was GREAT. Thank you for posting it! The song is super-catchy, the message awesome, the women in the video fantastic. Also, I love that her album is called Feminasty!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 12:35 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]

Her song about mastrubation is pretty great too.
posted by Brittanie at 12:51 PM on June 6, 2017 [5 favorites]

All of this is amazing.
posted by Lyn Never at 1:01 PM on June 6, 2017

Loved the video, but, truthfully, the tune wasn't my style (despite digging hard on the subject matter).
posted by Samizdata at 7:29 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]

Dang it! Where. are. the. lyrics!* I've googled all over the place.

I'm 63. I can only make out half of the lyrics. I love what I can hear, and it's pissing me off not to know the rest!!

*all I can find is lyrics by that asshole Nugent.
posted by BlueHorse at 8:00 PM on June 6, 2017 [1 favorite]

I remember when I first decided I had thunder-thighs. I was in the fourth grade. Just the age of that girl on the stoop, I suppose. All I knew was that Cathy said she had them, in the comics, and her legs looked like mine, and they weren't sexy, because she said so, and they sure didn't look bony and tan like the other girls' legs.

I can't imagine what it must be like for a kid to be around such strong, confident women who can dance and eat in public just as they want.
posted by Countess Elena at 8:30 PM on June 6, 2017 [2 favorites]

I sent this song to all the chubrubbers I know and love, thank you!
posted by Grandysaur at 8:59 PM on June 6, 2017

This is awesome. Needs the #JoyInJune tag too
posted by gt2 at 11:21 PM on June 6, 2017

Absolutely loved this! Her personal and Every Body Project Instagrams are great too.
posted by ellieBOA at 2:53 AM on June 7, 2017

I want their shorts, all of them.
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:39 AM on June 7, 2017

Incidentally, "Boom-click, they smack when I stride" goes very well with the tune and rhythm of "Boom-clap, the sound of my heart."

Which may have been the point, if my few moment's googling is to be believed.
posted by jgooden at 11:14 AM on June 7, 2017

Yay, my friend is one of the dancing extras in this video! Great song :)
posted by silverstatue at 11:22 AM on June 7, 2017 [7 favorites]