{"id":34441,"date":"2018-03-28T17:44:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2018-03-28T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:06:54","slug":"bonander-pays-homage-to-forgotten-women-in-history-with-empowering-new-single-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/03\/bonander-pays-homage-to-forgotten-women-in-history-with-empowering-new-single-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonander Pays Homage To Forgotten Women In History With Empowering New Single ‘Smile’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scandi alternative\/dark pop artist Bonander, is a perfect example of female empowerment within music, as she challenges gender norms and shackles of patriarchy, as she remembers forgotten Scandinavian women, in her haunting and, goosebump-inducing single \u2018Smile<\/a>\"\"\u2019.<\/h4>\n

The music video which features historic women and transwomen – Ada Nilsson, Anna Margret Holmgren,\u00a0Anna Whitlock, Elin W\u00e4gner, Elise Ottesen Jensen, Elsa Laula, Ester Blenda Nordstr\u00f6m, Karin Boye, Karolina Widestr\u00f6m, Kata Dahlstr\u00f6m, Katarina Taikon, Lili Elbe, Siri Derkert, Sofia Gumaelius \u2013 is backed by slow-build instrumentals.<\/p>\n

With her angelic vocals, the song, taken from her new EP \u2018It’s A Girl<\/a>\"\"\u2019, addresses the patriarchal shackles around women within society. It is about the expectations placed on women to always smile and stay pretty. About how a women\u2019s pain is hidden away- never for the world to see. It\u2019s a pain, ignored and with time, forgotten.<\/p>\n