Earlier this year, I made a playlist called Her which was inspired by a number of songs that had (mainly) been released throughout 2018, 2019 and 2020 that I felt were embodying the spirit of #MeToo in song. 'Get Ready with Me' was one of the songs I included in that playlist.
If Robyn's 'Dancing on my own' is the definitive sad banger, 'Get Ready with Me' has a claim to the title of 'best song about gender politics you can dance to'. It has the feel of Sophie Ellis Bextor at her sophisticated post disco slinky best, but its quiet sense of assertiveness and observational lyrics put it more in the same lyrical camp as Gaptooth's 'Ladykillers'. There's an effortless ease about the piece that means it carries itself lightly while not being light in subject, and that's an incredibly difficult feat to pull off. They haven't quite hit these heights again yet, but I live in hope that they will again.
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