What It Feels Like for a Girl double standard toward women, addressing hurtful myths about female inferiority. To emphasize the message, the song opens with a spoken word sample by actress Charlotte Gainsbourg from the 1993 British film, "The Cement Garden". A Spanish version of the track, "Lo Que Siente la Mujer", was translated by Alberto Ferraras and included the Latin American edition of "Music". The song received acclaim from most music critics, who declared it as a highlight from the album, while also remarking it as one of the most mature musical ventures of Madonna's career. Commercially, "What It Feels Like for a Girl" reached the
What It's Like the character in the preceding verse. Each character is presented in a sympathetic light as a victim of circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each verse ends with the line "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes" (in the third verse, ""...you ever had to wake up to hear the news"") and "Cause then you really might know what it's like to", with the action varying depending on what the character has to do ("sing the blues," "have to choose," and "have to lose," respectively) The characters are: The speaker attempts to build