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| Single by En Vogue | ||||
| from the album Funky Divas | ||||
| Released | September 24, 1992 | |||
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| Label | East West | |||
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| Producer(s) | Foster & McElroy | |||
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| "Free Your Mind" on YouTube | ||||
"Free Your Mind" is a song by American female group En Vogue from their second album, Funky Divas (1992). The track was composed and produced by Foster and McElroy.[citation needed] They were inspired by the Funkadelic song "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow."[2] The guitar and bass tracks for the song were written and recorded by San Francisco-based guitarist Jinx Jones. The opening line: "Prejudice, wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it go!", is adapted from a line originally used by David Alan Grier's character Calhoun Tubbs from Fox's In Living Color.
Issued as the third single from Funky Divas on September 24, 1992, "Free Your Mind" became a top-10 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 and a top-20 hit on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard named the song No. 41 on their list of "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time".[3] An alternative version of the song with different lyrics appears on the 1992 Summer Olympics compilation album Barcelona Gold.[4]
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- ^ Brown, G. (2004). Colorado Rocks!. Pruett Publishing Company. ISBN 0871089300.
- ^ "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time: Critics' Picks". Billboard. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ^ En Vogue - Free Your Mind (Alternative Version) on YouTube