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Jennifer Lopez drops multiple pop culture and social references in the vastly entertaining video to “Ain’t Your Mama,”
the female power anthem penned for her by Meghan Trainor.
Beginning with a one-sided phone conversation that probably every working woman in the world has had
(“I’m tired, I’ve been working all day! No, I can't...you should [do it]”),
Lopez then takes us to a TV news studio where Hillary Clinton’s famous “Human rights are women’s rights” speech can be heard in the background.
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From that point on, Lopez embarks on a history of women’s fight for independence,
from a 1950s kitchen to an assembly line to a 1980s boardroom (which immediately evokes the film 9 to 5) where Lopez,
dolled up in a purple shoulder-padded jacket and big hair, is shut out of the meeting.
Her rallying cry, asking women everywhere to get up and scream "I Ain't Your Mama!"
is a reference to the famous "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!” cry heard in the 1976 satire Network.