Cyndi Lauper has released a new version of her 1993 single Sally’s Pigeons.
The singer-songwriter originally released the track as the third single from her fourth album ‘Hat Full of Stars’ almost three decades ago.
In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed women in the US the right to terminate a pregnancy, she took to social media to announce the new version of the song.
“In my childhood, women didn’t have reproductive freedom and 50 years later we find ourselves in a time warp where one’s freedom to control their own body has been stripped away,” penned the pop star.
“When I wrote this song with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1991, we wrote about two little girls who dreamt of stretching their wings like the pigeons they watched that flew above them.
“They dreamt of being free. But freedom then for women and unfortunately now comes at a big price. If we don’t have control over our own bodies then we have no real freedom. We are second class citizens. We need to mobilize. We need to let our voices be heard.”
The track was famously inspired by the musician’s childhood friend, died after getting a back-alley abortion after she became pregnant in her teens.
