Like a cabaret bin chicken, Johanna Allen picks through her favourite musical morsels—from pop to Puccini—to create her playlist of torch songs that survive the test of TikTok. Embracing in equal measure the pioneering provocateurs like Piaf and the authors of modern-day anthems like Swift, Allen shows us that feminist audacity has always existed in music and will always endure. Join her and long-time collaborator, Mark Simeon Ferguson, in marvelling at the pluck and prowess of music’s most brazen. "Not so much a tall glass, but more a curvy punch bowl of European sass.: — The Age