On this day in 1984, the Metal Queen album was released. Back then, I had no idea that 37 years later, people would still be listening to this album, consider the song an anthem, or that I’d still be talking about it in interviews. I guess that speaks volumes. What I do want people to know, is that when George Bernhardt (my high school bandmate) and I wrote this song, it was in response to the over-the-top sexualized marketing that women (especially women in rock, and previously myself) were subjected to in the media and videos in the ’80s. It wasn’t uncommon to have a gang of bikini clad ladies hosed down and suggestively cavorting about, while washing a hot sports car (to the music track) of some male artist – and that just made my blood boil. It felt so wrong. We wanted to show, NOT that women needed to rise up, but that women ARE, and have ALWAYS BEEN strong, and we wanted to create something that changed the music industry’s perception of them at that time. That women were NOT merely adornments to make their male counterparts appear, well … more male.

The people who ‘got it’ REALLLLLY ‘got it.’ Others dismissed it as yet another cute girl singing rock, lumping it in with all the rest of the MTV culture vids of that time … completely missing the point. I am grateful the world has come so far in its treatment and perception of women, and the value of ALL peoples for that matter. It’s still not a perfect place – a work in progress we all play a part in. “Metal Queen” is a song for anyone. Let it inspire you to stand for what is right always!! Peace and Love XO❤️❤️