Meet Serena Joy, 'The Handmaid's Tale' Villain Behind Olivia Rodrigo's Most Outspoken Song
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Olivia Rodrigo takes on complicity and oppression in surprise song 'Serena Joy'
Olivia Rodrigo surprised fans with the release of her new song “Serena Joy,” a politically charged track inspired by the character Serena Joy Waterford from the Margaret Atwood book “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Meet Serena Joy, 'The Handmaid's Tale' Villain Behind Olivia Rodrigo's Most Outspoken Song
Olivia Rodrigo's surprise single 'Serena Joy' channels its anger through one of fiction's most divisive villains, using the story of a woman who helped build a totalitarian state, only to be trapped by it, to power what is being described as her most openly political song yet. The track, released to raise money for reproductive rights groups including Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights, is already being framed as a sharp s…
Olivia Rodrigo premieres Serena Joy, a subject with political burden that is already on all platforms. What Serena Joy hides The title is a wink at The Tale of the Maiden, Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel and the Hulu series. Serena Joy, played by Yvonne Strahovski in fiction, is the wife of a commander in the Gilead theocracy, a character who goes from being an accomplice of the system to allying with the protagonists. Musically, Serena Joy ke…
On this second (24), singer Olivia Rodrigo released the song "Serena Joy", inspired by the character of "The Tale of the Aia", a dystopia created by the author Margaret Atwood. In the plot, Serena is the wife of Fred Waterford, one of the dictators of the oppressive regime of which the United States lives in the book, when he goes by the name of Gilead. She is fervent to the values imposed by the government, which guide the nation under conserva…
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