“Her Strut” by Bob Seger

"Her Strut" is where Bob Seger's Against the Wind, out in February 1980, stops brooding and stomps on the gas. Seger wrote it on his own, and the inspiration was none other than the feminist icon Jane Fonda. It also rode along as the flip side of "The Horizontal Bop", the album's other fast one.

Next to the slower songs that did the heavy lifting on the radio, this hard-charging rocker stood out, and the critics split down the middle. One reviewer heard the Eagles' "The Long Run" in it, another decided it didn't have the push of the ballads, and a third heard the same coiled rhythmic pull that drove older Seger favorites. Some listeners bristled at the words, arguing they turned women into objects.

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