Lennox pushes for global feminism with new video

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Annie Lennox in partnership with Apple Music to launch a video in support of global feminism.

Spears-themed musical coming to Broadway

NEW YORK, March 13, (Agencies): Annie Lennox has a sweet dream – that the world will embrace the term global feminism and continue to push for the advancement of women’s rights around the globe.

The iconic singer and activist teamed with Apple Music to launch a video last Thursday in support of global feminism to coincide with International Women’s Day, which was Friday.

The nearly two-minute clip features Lennox, Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant and Grammy-winning singers Ed Sheeran, Mary J. Blige and Dua Lipa telling the story of women’s rights in the last 100 years.

“My interest is this term ‘global feminism,’” Lennox said. “It means that everybody can be a part of it. It isn’t saying, ‘I’m a feminist, it’s different than your feminism.’ No. It’s all part of a very mixed, diverse dialogue that will bring many people (together).”

“Feminism – we must use this word because it means empowerment. People can be (and) must be empowered,” she said.

The Scottish singer said though there’s been major progress for women’s rights, much more needs to be done.

“In western countries, we’re far more resourced than people are generally speaking in the so-called developing world,” she said. “It isn’t right that young girls cannot attend primary school or cannot attend secondary school. If they are living in poverty, they can’t therefore have the skills that they need. They can’t become literate, they can’t read or write, and therefore they can’t have a chance to get out of this poverty.”

Lennox is also encouraging more men to become global feminists: “We can be generous and inclusive, and we can use this term like an umbrella term, where people stand collectively, shoulder-to-shoulder, and they identify these facts and say, ‘This is not right. Men, women can say, ‘This is not right.’”

Dialogue

“Also, we must change this thing about violence where 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. If we don’t have dialogue with boys and men, we cannot change attitudes and behaviors, so we must bring boys and men into the arena, into the platform for discussion,” she added.

Lennox, 64, said Sheeran was the first to jump on board for the video, which also features cameos by Hozier, Emeli Sande, Paloma Faith, Yola, Ade Adepitan, Richa Chadha and more. For International Women’s Day, Apple Music launched playlists curated by some of the top female acts in music, including Cardi B, Pink, Halsey, Camila Cabello and more.

Lennox is a Grammy and Oscar winner who has had major success as a member of the duo Eurythmics as well as a solo act, with hits including “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”, ‘’Walking on Broken Glass”, ‘’No More I Love You’s” and “Here Comes the Rain Again”.

Lennox has pushed for equal rights throughout her career, and in 2008 she launched The Circle, an organization that focuses on gaining equality for women.

“I really like grassroots movements because I feel the change could come from within. Women like myself, I’m white. My skin color is white. My social standing is – I come from privilege. I don’t come from a privileged background, but now my life is extremely privileged. With that privilege, I have a voice and a platform. I have ability to move. I can contribute in many ways to raising awareness globally about these situations and circumstances,” she said.

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LOS ANGELES: The songs of Britney Spears will be featured in “Once Upon a One More Time”, a musical comedy featuring 23 titles from the singer’s catalog, theater owner James L. Nederlander announced today. The show will have its premiere in fall at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre before heading to Broadway. Previews begin Oct 29, with an opening night of Nov 13 and a limited run through Dec 1.

While Spears’ music is at the center of the show, the singer herself is not – the musical actually revolves around a humorous take on several classic Disney characters.

“Cinderella is having an existential crisis, and she has a posse of famous princesses, and her stepmother is the main antagonist, and there’s also Prince Charming and a dwarf we’ve never met – the eighth dwarf – and a narrator who is unhappy his system is being dismantled before his eyes,” the show’s bookwriter, Jon Hartmere (“The Upside”), told the New York Times. “These women have been in this hermetically sealed world, and then they start to get deeper into modern ideas – second and third-wave feminism – and also explore how stories are passed down to us, and where we get our norms from. But it’s also superfun and funny.”

Hartmere said the show has had several readings, one of which was attended by Spears herself. The singer is on hiatus from her Las Vegas residency “Domination” while her father recovers from surgery.

“I’m so excited to have a musical with my songs – especially one that takes place in such a magical world filled with characters that I grew up on, who I love and adore,” Spears said in a statement. “This is a dream come true for me!”

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