Dynesti: No Man

Dynesti: No Man 

For Women’s Month, Canadian Afro-Caribbean artist Dynesti releases 'No Man' through Antidote Artists, the third single from her upcoming autumn album 'The Dyna: Breakfast'. Dynesti amplifies women’s voices with her triumphant, defiant pushback against patriarchal attitudes and assertions that women should be under the control of men. She wrote the song as she watched protests against recent rollbacks in women's rights and restrictive health policies. Her indignant verses respond to the lack of empathy from public leaders and the boastful, demeaning nature of so-called 'alpha male' influencers taunting women with lines like “your body, my choice”.

Backed by Juno-winning producer Nate Smith and Toronto’s electrifying gospel/R&B choir Inkloosiv Voices, the track erupts with joyful vocal harmonies and funky march beats. For the chorus, Dynesti reworked the traditional Black spiritual “Ride On, King Jesus” which itself was a subversive response to the slavemasters and authorities. Like the spiritual’s reassurance to Black people escaping subjugation, Dynesti turns the first line into “standin’ on bidness” (be strong in what you believe) followed by the original lyric “no man can a-hinder me” in order to energize women in their stand against intimidation and injustice. The cover art is inspired by the 19th-century emancipation movement and Underground Railroad from which the interpolated spiritual originates, and depicts women of different races moving together through the cover of night.

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