Matt Rogers

Martina.

Martina McBride, Faith Hill.

Like, the list goes on and on and on.

And Leigh-Anne Womack.

Like, it just really...

Yeah, it made them light up in a way.

And I think it's because it was like music for them about their lives that was so empowering.

And so I really fell in love with that music because I saw all the women in my life like come alive to it.

And yeah, the women in my life were always just genuinely, for the most part, funnier and like more vibrant and interesting than the men who were talking over them.

And the talking over women thing has become kind of like, it got beat over the head nauseatingly, I feel like, to a point.

But really, when I was growing up, I was like, these women couldn't get a word in edgewise, and they were funnier and smarter.

And that drove me fucking insane.

And yeah, seeing them listening to the chicks and singing along, I just felt that there was something going on that was very special.

And I fell in love with it, because it was just the best feeling in the world.

I also feel like I don't want to, I want to make sure that when I say that there wasn't a formal education around feminism, the women in my life were feminist in ways that people who have only studied in the classroom could never, like their feminism was still important and real and powerful.

They were taking stances and making swings and stuff.

I just mean like- Formally.

There wasn't this thing that I experienced when I went to college where a bunch of people were sitting around talking about ideas and being like, this is why this should be this way.

And like, this is an example of this.

Like it was more just this lived experience of like, yeah, these shitty annoying men, like ruining your life at every turn.