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wanted to write a song about how women have become so confident and stepped out so much, and I thought Jane was a great role model." AXS critic Jeff Wallace feels that Seger succeeded in his objective stating that the song tells of "a strong independent woman and how she won't be controlled by anyone." Fonda has claimed to be flattered by the song, stating that "you’ll know why when you hear the lyrics."
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and her appearance before the Campaign for Economic Democracies. He stated "I was quite proud of her for doing that. I admired her crust. For going in there and having the strength to speak her mind, so I kind of wrote 'Her Strut' for an '80s woman ... you know, it was the dawn of the '80s, and I
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Some listeners criticized the lyrics of "Her Strut" for objectifying women. Music journalist Jimmy Guterman and arts editor Owen O'Donnell criticized "Her Strut" as a "bewildering lame ditty" whose singer "sounds like an aging high school football jerk who never grew out of thinking of 'girls' as
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criticized it for belittling women when they try to assert themselves. Seger objected to Marsh's accusation of misogyny stating "My God, I don't hate women. I'm for women standing up." Seger went on to state that he used the sexist sounding chorus because he liked the way the sound of the word
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But anyway, "Her Strut." The very title conjures up an image to me, ya know? And it's something I had to work my way around, 'cause saying "I love to watch her strut" is almost an automatic sexist thing. "Her Strut." I really struggled with that, I did. But I loved the hardness of the word
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gonna be human nature. Can't turn off the hormones. I didn't wanna look like I'm some sort of sexist monster, and I'm not. I'm really not. Honest to God.
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critic Pam Parrish felt it has "the same rhythmic tension that characterized 'The Fire Down Below' and 'Come to Poppa.'"
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a sexist theme, that what I'm trying to say here is that at the bottom line it's human nature, that men are
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gonna love women for being sexual in spite of all this other stuff. Women have to understand that it's
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Like "The Horizontal Bop", and unlike the more successful previous singles from
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Seger has also stated that "Her Strut" was inspired by political activist
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DiMartino, Dave (September 1980). "Bob Seger Bops Horizontally".
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felt it lacked the drive of the more popular, slower songs from
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Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger
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Index


Single
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Against the Wind
A-side
The Horizontal Bop
Genre
Hard rock
Label
Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Bob Seger
Producer(s)
Bill Szymczyk
Bob Seger
Against the Wind
The Horizontal Bop
Jane Fonda
the Eagles
The Long Run
The Daily News
Rolling Stone
Dave Marsh
Jane Fonda
liner notes
Greatest Hits 2
Bob Seger
Drew Abbott
David Teegarden
compilation album

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