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Joyful Girl (Ani DiFranco cover)

by jocelyn mackenzie

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"Joyful Girl" has always been my favorite Ani song, even more so after I started watching her perform it live when we were on tour together with my band Pearl and the Beard in 2012. The tune is so melancholy and the words are so hopeful, which is the perfect marriage of what it means to love ourselves – it's not easy, and it's not always intuitive, but this song gives me the feeling that making the effort to rise above my own self doubt is always worth it. It was the obvious choice as a cover to include in my first episode of Self Love Sundays on Righteous Babe Radio, and Emily Hope Price was the obvious choice of collaborators. Her cello and arrangement sing the feeling of longing and strength I hear in Joyful Girl's message, and her deep involvement on my record PUSH made this one of many collaborations with Emily even that much more joyful and powerful.

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I do it for the joy it brings
'Cause I'm a joyful girl
'Cause the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world
I do it 'cause it's the least I can do
I do it 'cause I learned it from you
And I do it just because I want to
'Cause I want to

Everything I do is judged
And they mostly get it wrong
But oh well
Bathroom mirror has not budged
And the woman who lives there can tell
The truth from the stuff that they say
She looks me in the eye
So, you would you prefer the easy way
No, well OK then
Don't cry

I wonder if everything I do
I do instead
Of something I want to do more
The question fills my head
And I know there's no grand plan here
This is just the way it goes
When everything else seems unclear
I guess at least I know

I do it for the joy it brings
'Cause I'm a joyful girl
'Cause the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world
I do it 'cause it's the least I can do
I do it 'cause I learned it from you
I do it just because I want to

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released March 29, 2021
Produced, mixed, vocals, ukulele by Jocelyn Mackenzie
Arrangement and cello by Emily Hope Price
Written by Ani DiFranco

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jocelyn mackenzie Brooklyn, New York

Jocelyn Mackenzie is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, artist, and psychic medium. Her debut solo album PUSH is a chamber pop homage to healing through radical self love. The fearlessness in her songwriting combined with the orchestral arrangements of each song alchemizes her pain into a poultice, making the album itself a testimony to hope, heartbreak, and what it means to be human. ... more

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