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Female Power Top Ten
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Women around the world are taking back their power and un-limiting themselves from old, contrived stereotypes. This is a powerful top ten watching these tracks you’re aware of the might of these women. They’re angry and they’re fighting back, So be careful here comes a new generation of women and anything’s possible! With a strong showing from women of colour.
Right, here comes the post-feminist might… British M.I.A. is an uncompromising crusader for the voiceless & oppressed; and her song and the 2010 video for Bad Girls directly addressed Saudi Arabia’s then ban on women driving and may have even played a part in its demise. (If you haven’t seen this video -check it out!)
Fifth Harmony’s 2015 Bo$$ was taken up by young women as a post-feminist anthem, encouraging independence and citing successful women such as Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. While back in the ’90s Shania Twain’s video for Man! I Feel Like A Woman parodied the sexist treatment of women in Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love video see here with its use of ‘dumb’ emotionless female models, objectified and used as nothing more than titillating background props.
| Respect – Female Power Top Ten | ||
| 1 Independent Woman |
Destiny’s Child (2001) | Play Video |
| 2 Bad Girls |
M.I.A. (2012) | Play Video |
| 3 Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves |
Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin (1985) |
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| 4 Think in joint place with Respect |
Aretha Franklin (1968 & 1967) | Play Video Play Video |
| 5 None Of Your Business |
Salt-N-Pepa (1993) | Play Video |
| 6 You Don’t Own Me |
Lesley Gore (1963) & Grace ft. G-Eazy (2015) |
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| 7 Can’t Hold Us Down |
Christina Aguilera ft.Lil’ Kim (2002) | Play Video |
| 8 Just A Girl |
No Doubt (1995) |
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| 9 BO$$ in joint place with Woman |
Fifth Harmony (2015) & Kesha (2017) |
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| 10 Man! I Feel Like A Woman |
Shania Twain (1997) | Play Video |
Other contenders that didn’t make it into our Top Ten:
This was a difficult Top Ten as there were so many great tracks and all of the tracks below could have been included.
Fighter by Christina Aguilera (2012) Play Video
Unstoppable by Sia (2016) Play Video
I Am Woman by Emmy Meli (2021) Play Video
Run the World (Girls) by Beyoncé (2011) Play Video
Hard Out Here by Lily Allen (2014) Play Video
Stronger by Britney Spears (2000) Play Video
***Flawless by Beyoncé ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) Play Video
U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifah (1993) Play Video
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~ to be included the rules are: they must be big hits or tracks from internationally well-known performers.
Great list! Cardi B is another artist I like to listen to. She incorporates a lot of femdom themes into her music.
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