"Free World" is a song by British singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl, released on 20 March 1989 as the lead single from her second studio album, Kite.

[7] On its release, Jerry Smith of Music Week praised "Free World" as "a short, sharp and totally irresistible slice of effervescent pop" and added that "fairly fizzing, it surely can't fail".

[8] Andy Hurt of Sounds described it as a song which "commences with gusto with a capital GUST, but somehow manages to get lost in the vicinity of the chorus".

"[10] In a review of Kite, Steve Hochman of Rolling Stone felt the song "slams home a warning of women's frustration in the world with U2-like frenzy".

[2] In the 2003 book The Rough Guide to Rock, authors Peter and Jonathan Buckley said of the song, "'Free World' is an unusually melodic example of an anti-Thatcherite diatribe.