Clever Song 'Legitimate Rape' Captures Anti-Akin Outrage

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Greg Mitchell on August 22, 2012 - 9:23 AM ET

After two full days of coverage, outrage and anguish over Rep. Todd Akin's declaraton about "legitimate rape" and the magical ways women who are assaulted prevent pregnancy, I thought I'd heard enough for now. I'd blogged and tweeted, and blogged and tweeted, about it myself—and made all of the connections to Ryan and Romney—and was even boring myself.

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Then along came a link to a song and video titled "Legitimate Rape." The singer and songwriter was a young woman, and one had to give her props for speed, if nothing else. But the song, her costume changes, character acting and editing, turned out to be terrific, with apt and clever lyrics from beginning to end, and sung very well. I hailed it in a blog post and on Facebook, Huffington Post picked it up too, and suddenly some of her old high school friends were giving her a call. Here's the video now, with some of the lyrics at the close of this column.



So who is it? She's Taylor Ferrera, age 24, who hails from West Virginia and (she tells me in an email interview) now living and working in New York for the past two years. Her songwriting goes back to her teen years when she was in a band with her brother named The Bugs—in tribute to the Beatles—and she did a lot of acting in college. She's been posting videos for about six months now, with titles like "Businesses Are People" and "I Hate the Bank of America."

What inspired her to write and record this song? "I've been writing politically themed music for a few months now," she explained, "along with my other silly songs, and when I heard about the Republican representative's statements, I was absolutely blown away. So when I got home after midnight, it just came pretty naturally. So with a Red Bull in me, I wrote it, recorded it, photoboothed it (such high quality technology goes into my videos) and edited it by around 4:30 a.m."

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1. K&R

And thanks for this song