Rachel Bloom Delivers Hilarious Song About Female Authority Figures

For years, wise and successful women have been urging their sisters not to be afraid of their own ambition—to be strong, to take control, to “lean in,” as Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg famously put it in her eponymous 2013 best-seller. (As perhaps the wisest woman of all once said: “I’m not bossy—I’m the boss.”)

Yet in practice, it’s not always easy to follow the advice of these strong, confident, famous women—especially if you’re, say, an anxious millennial who’s been socialized to care far too much about what other people think of you. Perhaps nobody knows that better than the multi-talented Rachel Bloom, who’s spent two seasons expertly skewering gender and social norms on the CW network’s Crazy Ex Girlfriend. (The Golden Globe-winning musical series is a lot funnier than we’re making it sound.)

So when Vanity Fair asked Bloom to make a video in honor of our very first Founders Fair—a conference celebrating female entrepreneurs—she really leaned in, composing an ode to the confusing conundrum of being both a leader and a woman at the same time.

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Rachel Bloom has lent her voice to BoJack Horseman, Robot Chicken and Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas.