Whether you're looking for a boost of confidence and self esteem, or you just need some hard-hitting songs to belt aloud while your driving around with your best friend, here's songs that every female needs on their ultimate girl power playlist.
1. Scars To Your Beautiful // Alessia Cara
Best lyrics: You should know you're beautiful just the way you are.
A song about accepting yourself the way you are, and realizing your own true beauty, this songs most definitely belongs in a world where our worth as women is congruently measured alongside society's opinion about beauty.
2. Perfect // Pink
Best lyrics: Pretty pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.
This song is a reminder that to so many people we are everything they could ever want.
3. Love Myself // Hailee Steinfeld
Best lyrics: Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else.
This high energy jam encourages girls to realize that there is only one person's opinion who truly matters; their own. And once they start loving themselves, that is the beginning of everything.
4. Fight Song// Rachel Platten
Best lyrics: And I don't really care if nobody else believes. 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me.
Most women are stronger than they believe themselves to be, and they often discover this strength when they fight for what they want. Platten encourages her listeners to stand up and fight for themselves, even if no one believes in them.
5. Me & My Girls // Selena Gomez
Best lyrics:Never felt more, more alive, I got my chicas by my side.
Basically just a great song about female friendship.
6. Salute // Little Mix
Best lyrics: You think we're just pretty things, You couldn't be more wrong (We're standing strong, we carry on).
The ladies of Little Mix sing about "representing all the women" in the world, and finding strength and numbers.
7. Confident //Demi Lovato
Best lyrics: What's so wrong with being confident?
Good question Demi. The answer? Nothing.
8. Girl On Fire // Alicia Keys
Best lyrics: Oh, she got her head in the clouds. And she's not backing down.
Again, another song about strong women.
9. Girl's Just Want To Have Fun // Cyndi Lauper
Best lyrics: Oh girls just want to have fun.
Simple message. Classic song.
10. Beautiful// Christina Aguilera
Best lyrics: I am beautiful, No matter what they say.Words can't bring me down.
11. Sit Still, Look Pretty// Daya
Best lyrics: But this gal right here's gonna rule the world.
A song for every girl who's been told her job is simply to be pretty. News flash: We are capable of so so much more.
12. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) // Kelly Clarkson
Best lyrics: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller.
Another song about strong women finding their footing.
13. This One's for the Girls// Martina McBride
Best lyrics:This one's for the girls, Who love without holdin' back,Who dream with everything they have.
A song for all girls everywhere.
14. Most Girls // Hailee Steinfeld
Best lyrics: Most girls are smart and strong and beautiful. Most girls, work hard, go far, we are unstoppable. Most girls, our fight to make everyday, no two are the same. I wanna be like, I wanna be like, most girls.
A song for every time a girl's been told "You're not like most girls". Well guess what, every girl is beautiful in her own skin, each in their own unique way.
15. Run The World (Girls) // Beyonce
Best lyrics: Who run the world? Girls
This is THE girl power anthem. So play on necessary when you need help feeling like you can change the world. Because you can.