I found that the article "Strange Fruit" was an awesome read. It was also very interesting. I had heard the name Billie Holiday before but I had no idea who she was. I did not even know "she" was a woman until I read this article. When the article started I thought it was going to be an entire article written about white supremacy; a white man who made a black "uneducated" woman sing a song about the life of a black person. As the article went on and the songs Billie was singing began to become more meaningful to her, the more I enjoyed the read. Normally Believe that in order for a song to truly relate to the artist singing it, they had to have written it themselves. This article changed my perspective. In the beginning like I said earlier, the article was about a white man who told this black woman to sing the song "Strange Fruit". As the article went on Billie went through a life altering experience which resulted in the loss of her father due to racial issues. Billie started experiencing things similar to the events she was singing about and she started to change her entire repertoire around "Strange Fruit". That is when I started to re-think. Just because an artist did not write their music does not mean they do not feel the same pain and emotion they are singing about. The article comes full circle when in the end Billie decides to name her autobiography a line from the song. They decided that it would not be best and changed the name. In the beginning it was white power, she fought back, and in the end the power is back in the hands of the white men.