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When Teri Bracken, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who makes music under the literary moniker Bront\u00eb Fall, was in college, a man told her that some women treat college as a “finishing school” for finding husbands. The term angered her but also inspired her to show her listeners a different form of “finishing school” with an EP by that name.<\/p>\n
The songs on Finishing School<\/em>, like its title, put a twist on gender norms. In “Warrior,” Bracken sings about using dresses, heels, lipstick, and other “feminine” objects as weapons to fight sexual harassment, singing, “I am not weak\/I am a warrior.” The bluesy “White Dress” is about resisting societal pressures to get married, declaring that the “white dress” she aspires toward is a successful career.<\/p>\n “It’s celebrating my life and what I want and sort of saying, you don’t have to conform to those age-old expectations,” she says. “I think it touches a lot of females \u2014 they’ve told me, ‘Oh yeah, I turned 28. My grandma was like, ‘When are you gonna have babies and move out to Minnesota?’ So many women feel this pressure from family and society.”<\/p>\n On “Six Years,” premiering today on Audiofemme<\/em>, Bracken responds to thea anxiety many women feel about aging, reflecting on the wisdom that the past few years have given her. “Now I’m six years older\/Six years smarter\/Six years stronger \/My will is unshakeable,” she sings.<\/p>\n