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List of Girl Power Music from the 2010s

By Cordellia NovisPublished 2 years ago 9 min read
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The Music Industry has been expanding its wings, widely for almost the last century, it would still better to insist that women have too taken over the industry by storm. Women of Music is no exception to Men in the industry, using their beauty, courage and angel-like voices they work hard to proceed with the flow.

Women all around the world, must be proud being born a woman and mustn’t be degraded in the society, she must be given courage to accept that fact, and be strong at the fullest. Over the past years we have seen a great increase in the Music of Women. Below are some of the “Girl Power” Songs that were famous over the 2010’s:

1.“Girl On Fire”- Alisha Keys (2012):

The lead single from Alisha Keys Fifth Studio album in 2012, this song was subjected to a huge worldwide popularity due to its tough lyrics of encouragement. Key’s herself told the reason om writing this song,

“…In some ways I felt like a lion locked in a cage…I felt like a girl misunderstood that no one really knew, I felt like it was time to stop making excuses for any part of my life that I wanted to change. Once I made that choice I became a “Girl On Fire”, the lion broke free”.

The lyrics

“…So bright, she can burn your eyes, better look the other way…”

this phrase reflects on the “Aura” of the young woman. Bright, brave, and courageous.

“…Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away.”

Although the world seems chaotic, and dangerous for her, she strives forward to live. Naturally, the chorus of the song exhibits a complete girl power vibe with the catchy words “Girl On Fire”

2.“Man”-Taylor Swift (2020):

The song’s title itself shows the artist’s idea of the lyrics. Swift explains that she often wondered how she would be written and spoken about if she were a man, immediately influencing it for the song.

“I’m so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man”,

here she tries to ponder what she is to have if she was a man compared with what she has now. She takes the chance to tackle the career issues many women face in today’s society. Men are allowed certain advantages with contrast to women because of the laws, biases and norms of the existing society.

“What I was wearing, if I was rude could all be separated from my good ideas and power moves”

the line explicit how women are practically judged than men in certain areas. Taylor also refers to how women are more close to be known as rude inside a workplace, thus making them uncomfortable. “Man” is the simple idea of Taylor Swift to give ladies a better, fair world to live in.

3.“Most Girls”-Hailee Steinfeld (2017):

Through the music of her style, Hailee tries to bring out female empowerment as the primary theme. The anthem cherishes the existence of girls regardless of age, fashion, their choice of love etc. Generally, in English “Most Girls” is a wording used for negative approaches, like for example

‘Most girls don’t like to get dirty’,

nevertheless, Steinfeld employs the word for a positive lookout towards girls. Her chorus

“Most girls are smart and strong and beautiful, most girls work hard go far, we are unstoppable” is perfect to the point. “Some girls like to keep their physique real private, some girls wear jeans so tight cause it feels so right, yeah”

the verse expresses opinion about the fact how some girls cover up their bodies, maybe as their religion. This is a straight request to stop bullying Muslim women as “terrorists”, Hailee wants all of them to have even rights. The music video is also at very best, we can see stereotypes of girls showing up at different intervals, indeed making it one message.

4.“Roar”-Katy Perry (2013):

A song with a unique perspective. Katy Perry takes the help of animal symbolism to show the power of a lady.

“I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire…and you’re gonna hear me roar”,

a tiger roars in order depict the strength and power, which Katy assists this to show herself as a champion to the viewers. Before this she explains her new beginnings, the way she fell to rock bottoms but then still got up

“You held me down, but I got up, already brushing off the dust”.

Here “You” may refer to men mostly. However, many favor the lines

“Now I’m floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, I earned my stripes, I went from zero to my own hero.”

Talks about self-confidence, to do what you think is right plus how a girl experiences reawakening when she explores her limits along with her power.

5.“Juice”-Lizzo (2019):

Sung by the Black-American Rapper Lizzo, Juice is an anthem of self-loving. From the start, to the middle until the ending the ballad radiates a positive vibe, completed with a definite hope for girls around the world.

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Don’t say it ‘cause I know I’m cute”,

this brings back the fairy tale of “Snow-White” to the background. Lizzo here unlike the villain questions her mirror but answers the question herself, to show her self-relying theme. Moreover, it also expresses that the inner beauty matters more than the outer beauty.

“If I’m shinin’, everybody gonna shine”

this directly refers to her music concept. “Fat” is a normal word even though it can hurt the listener much. Lizzo disregards the fact of being “Fat” here utterly depicting self-love.

6.“Scars to your Beautiful”-Alessia Cara (2016):

Alessia’s song may be directed with no gender but it mainly focuses on women. It is mostly about body image, a topic that widely tempts women. In the first verse Cara sings

“She Just wants to be beautiful, she goes unnoticed, she knows no limits. She craves attention, she praises an image…”

This deeply portrays how girls like to have beauty as core, how obsessed they are with the criteria of “Model”, they want to be perfect like

“Sculpted by the sculptor”.

Perfect doesn’t exist but they idolize to have a “Perfect Body”. This is a girl who wishes to be like a celebrity or model, to have sharp features. Moving onto the second verse “Beauty is Pain” this may mention the lives of models, Models are fixated to dieting, not probably given what they want, they are fixed to a den.

“So to all the girls that’s hurting, let me be your mirror. Help you see a little bit clearer the light that shines within…”

the song is just the singer giving a better message to the listeners.

7.“Salute”-Little Mix (2014):

Released in early 2014, this masterpiece recognizes women to be their own fighters. In the world we experience that men are always seen as fighters, those fighting for women. But this single expresses a sole proprietorship of ladies, how strong they are and their individualism.

“Get your killer heels, sneakers, pumps or lace up your boots. Representing all the women, salute, salute.”

Jesy and Jade are straightly referring to the individualistic ideas of the women, meaning that they are free to wear what they like; killer heels, sneakers pumps etc. And in the end it’s “Salute”, a respect to women.

“Don’t need ammunition, on a mission and we’ll hit you with the truth”

if you know the truth well, then you know why the world needs changing in a way. The change doesn’t include violence with weaponry. Representing all women, Salute.

8.“Ain’t your Mama”-Jennifer Lopez (2016):

The song is about JeLo making notices about freedom for womanhood. She uses her fullest to show gratitude for hardworking women. The pop queen emphasizes that ladies aren’t to be limited into the kitchen. They too have chances of moving through other careers. In today’s world we see woman juggling with all her career material plus household work. The song focuses on how chores are biased based on sex.

“I ain’t gon’be cooking all day, I ain’t your mama”

cooking is fun, however it doesn’t mean to be around one gender. Sometimes men would be better chefs than women.

9.“Rare”-Selena Gomez (2020):

An ideal song for a girl in her tender youth, talks a lot about self-love, self-empowerment as main themes. It shows a brand new shadow, lights on how “Rare” an individual might be. Selena Gomez wants the listener to be herself, unique and different.

“Baby, You’ve been so distant from me lately and lately, Don’t even wanna call you ‘Baby’.”

This may refer mostly as many think to a relationship, were one is pulling off the conversation whereas the other ignoring the conversation. But in my opinion it’s about Selena talking to herself, questioning herself the change she’s going through, even though she didn’t request it.

“Why don’t you recognize I’m so rare?”

duality of the word “rare” must be highlighted, It’s like Old Self Vs New Self in the song. I would prescribe this for a broken girl. An ambitious and encouraging song by Selena.

10.“Kill This Love”- BlackPink (2019):

Aimed on toxic relationships, The K-Pop queens shot off with the line

“After a sweet ‘Hi’, there’s always a bitter ‘Bye’”

showing off the fact of how it started and how it’s ending drastically. Jennie repeats the catchy line “I’m a slave to my emotions” regarding how girls suffer with a broken heart, later however cursing

“Screw this heartless love”.

The four K-Pop queens shading lovers who left the other through the line “So Sorry, I’m Not Sorry”. Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rose are requesting to put up an end to the ship “I need to bring an end to this love.”

“Let’s Kill this love!”

refers to the song’s co-writer “Bekuh Boom’s” experience of leaving her own artist deal to be a good mother and wife. How she suffered to do so. The real struggle of Ladies. BlackPink have mastered with the song to shade Toxic Relations.

To all Ladies in the society, be happy and enjoy, Cause it’s your life not anyone else’s.

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  • Darkos6 months ago

    During summer was dancing and singing to all the power song of girls for from Your list this world need to stop the War! I love what You wrote

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