Garbus, who was a secretary, cleaned houses and stocked grocery shelves on her way to a music career, says Parton's lyrics capture so much about the reality of workers' daily lives - and their dreams. This Is A Recording : Lily Tomlin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Webamp Volume 90 1 Alexander Graham Bell 03:12 2 Mr. 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. Apat 5:34 AM Speaking at her recent handprint ceremony in Hollywood, Lily Tomlin looked back at her career and discussed reuniting with Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda - her co-stars. "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. Everybody is very interested and we've all agreed that we'd love to do it if it's right.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. "We're trying to get the script and all that. Actually all these years, we've talked about doing a sequel to 9 to 5 and it never made any real sense until just recently. Parton said on Thursday that she and her co-stars will make another film: ""I've been talking to Lily and Jane. In recent months, however, a revival has looked more likely, not least because of the climate of #MeToo has made 9 to 5's trailblazing theme of defying sexual harassment in the workplace even more relevant.
Since then, Fonda, Tomlin and Parton have all expressed interest in taking on a new version of them film that catapulted them into the pop culture spotlight. However, the 9 to 5 trio could return to our screens in a reboot of the film, having all agreed to take part for the "right" script.Ī sequel or revamp of the blockbuster has been mooted for the past three decades, with James Bond screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz developing a script. With a collective age of 230, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda are all well past retirement.
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