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June 30

A Poor Young Working Lady's Song

I need a song that has a young lady born in a poor family with many younger siblings. As the oldest one among them, she went to work at a very young age to help her parents feed the kids. Gotta be a loving family. -- Toytoy (talk) 12:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are you looking for a pre-existing song? If not, then that description could be used as a prompt for an AI music generator. Otherwise, try 53 Songs About Hard working woman (Pop, Rap & More) --136.54.106.120 (talk) 14:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was a discussion about peoples' shared experiences. People around the world may be facing the same problems and then I was asked if there's a country or rock and roll song like this where a young woman has to work to help her parents. I could not come up with a song like this. Most of these femm songs in the U.S. were very individual. I don't know if Loretta Lynn had a song themed this manner. -- Toytoy (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors" come to mind; they don't directly satisfy your specifications, but do address the subject from a different perspective. "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert is similar. "Family Portrait" by P!nk touches on the theme, but the family seems more dysfunctional than loving. --136.54.106.120 (talk) 21:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry (later covered by Reba McEntire) is about a young girl that her mom sends out to "work", but it doesn't really fit your question either. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 11:47, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, does the song mention any siblings? —Tamfang (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tracy Chapman and Fast Car could fit. 41.23.55.195 (talk) 06:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's no mention in "Fast Car" of whether the narrator had or didn't have any siblings. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:04, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was Mrs. Which's height in the 2018 movie supposed to be a reference to Oprah's life experience?

When Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) makes her appearance in A Wrinkle in Time, she is giant. One of the other astral beings tells her that she is "the wrong size", to which Mrs. Which responds "Is there such a thing as the wrong size?"

I recently watched a YouTube video of someone reading Brad Meltzer's I Am Oprah Winfrey. At one point, the book's literary prose (referring to Oprah in the first person, as is usually the case for Ordinary People Change the World books) states that some of the people who used to ridicule Oprah in the past considered her to be the wrong size, and the book's use of the phrase "the wrong size" there reminded me of the aforementioned moment in that movie.

P.S. Come to think of it, this looks like it may belong in the Humanities section. If you think Humanities seems more like the correct place for this than Entertainment, feel free to move it there. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 15:47, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The book was written in 1962, before Oprah was well known, so I doubt it refers to her life experience. RudolfRed (talk) 16:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not referring to the book. The only time that size seems to have been brought up in the source material was when Mrs Whatsit told the human protagonists that there's no difference between the size of the smallest microbe and the largest galaxy. However, I'm pretty sure the book never described any character as being unnaturally gigantic, so the book is out of the question. (figuratively and literally) – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 20:19, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The screenplay for A Wrinkle in Time was written after 2010, so dialogue in the film can easily have been inspired by Oprah's experience before she broke through. She herself wrote about the experience ("They told me I was the wrong color, the wrong size, and that I showed too much emotion."^[1]), so we may assume it stung. --Lambiam 20:52, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]