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Renaissance Girls

"Renaissance Girls"
A purple background featuring the singer wearing a habit and holding a microphone, alongside the singer's name and the song's title.
Single by Oh Land
from the album Wish Bone
A-side "Renaissance Girls (Nick Zinner Remix)"
B-side "Renaissance Girls (Instrumental)"
Released 6 August 2013
Format
Recorded 2013
Genre Electropop
Length 3:09
Label
  • Tusk or Tooth
  • A:larm Music
Writer(s) Nanna Øland Fabricius
Producer(s) David Andrew Sitek
Oh Land singles chronology
"Speak Out Now"
(2011)
"Renaissance Girls"
(2013)
"Pyromaniac"
(2013)

"Renaissance Girls" is a song by Danish recording artist Oh Land, taken from her third studio album Wish Bone (2013). It was released as the album's lead single on 6 August 2013 by Tusk or Tooth and A:larm Music. The track was written by Nanna Øland Fabricius, while David Andrew Sitek solely produced it. Musically an electropop recording, it features Oh Land singing about roles and tasks that a girl might perform, alongside accomplishing her dreams.

Oh Land described the writing process as inspiring, and claimed that the single notices what it is like to be a woman in today's society. "Renaissance Girls" was well received by music critics, who appreciated the singer's empowering lyrics. An accompany music video was released on 7 August 2013 and features various choreography within a warehouse. For the visual, the singer wanted it to be simple yet spontaneous, and features wardrobes provided by fashion designer Phillip Lim.

After taking a yearlong hiatus following the release of her eponymous second studio album, Oh Land (2011), she began to start writing and recording new material for an upcoming project. Oh Land enlisted the help of TV on the Radio's David Andrew Sitek, who she praised as a "brilliant instrumentalist"; the pair collaborated for the aforementioned project, which would later become her third record, Wish Bone (2013). The singer billed the record as her "most directly personal album that [she has] done to date", and also claimed that the lyrics stood out for being extremely vulnerable. "Renaissance Girls" was released for digital consumption on 6 August 2013 through Tusk or Tooth and A:larm Music.

An electropop song, "Renaissance Girls" lasts three minutes and nine seconds. For the track's entire duration, she sings with constant staccato over a furious melody. Michelle Geslani of Consequence of Sound called it an "off-kilter electro-pop [...] girl-power anthem". Geslani stated it was "abuzz with a swarm of busy, twinkling beats". Lyrically, Oh Land sings about performing common household tasks, followed by reaching her goals: "Doing the laundry and planning for the future / Is the nature of a renaissance girl". The singer also claims to giving birth to three children, yet still "remaining a virgin". Oh Land commented on her inspiration in the lyrics of "Renaissance Girls":


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