You Lit My Fire

The dinner party depicted in the new video for Ane Brun's "You Lit My Fire" is, perhaps, not how most of us imagine the feminist revolution looks. The clip, directed by Lisa James Larsson, is a mostly light-hearted affair filled with glamorous women and crystal chandeliers. But a revolutionary act it is — just as the song it accompanies is a feminist anthem, not what we might expect, but certainly what we need.

Brun is set to finally release her sixth studio album, When I'm Free, in the U.S., marking a next step in a career that's never stopped moving. Her earliest work was rooted in folk; 2011's It All Starts With One was orchestral and ambitious; now her latest is worldly, adventurous and gleeful. And she comes by that joy honestly: Brun says she wrote this album in response to a revelation she had while home recuperating from medical issues that forced her to drop out of a tour with Peter Gabriel. The way she tells it, she woke up one night flooded with the knowledge that fear was her barrier, and if she could let fear go, her body would rest and heal. Her radical new approach to living resulted in When I'm Free, a record deeply rooted in affirmation and self-acceptance.