And there is something about that combination that makes it kind of addictive and fun."Ī different take on the song emerged last spring, when This American Life commissioned Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards to record a cover of "9 to 5" for an episode dealing with workplace harassment. "It is simultaneously a song of angry complaint and immense good cheer.
"It's a song that contains complaints about so many frustrations and inequities and injustices within a workplace - some of them gendered, some of them capitalist, some of them about how power is so unequally distributed," Traister says. Though the song was more than 20 years old by then, she and her friends would still sing along to it on the local bar's jukebox when work left them stressed out and feeling stuck. Rebecca Traister, a New York magazine writer who comments frequently on feminism and politics (her most recent book, Good and Mad, is about the power of women's anger), says the song had a similar effect on her when she worked as an administrative assistant.
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