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The best girl power songs to add to your next playlist

By Cara Emmeline Garcia

Get ready to find your new anthem!

Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Dua Lipa

Whether you're looking for some encouragement or a reminder of how a strong you are, there are tons of song out there to choose from.

Here is a compilation of some of the best girl power songs you might want to add to your playlist:

GIRL - Maren Morris


All the ups and down are normal, but girls can face anything.

Empowering lyric: “Baby girl, don't you hang our head low / Don't you lose your halo / Everyone's gonna be okay”

Nunya - Kehlani ft. Dom Kennedy

It takes a while for an ex to realize what they're missing, but when they do, they'll realize they missed out on the best thing they've had.

Empowering lyric: "You put on a show / 'Cause you don't want the world to know / That you lost a girl who got it on her own / It'd be good for you to let it go"

Confident - Demi Lovato

Don't let anyone wreck your confidence

Empowering lyric: “What's wrong with being, what's wrong with being, what's wrong with being confident?”

Run the World (Girls) - Beyonce

In case you forgot.

Empowering lyric: “Who run the world? / Girls”

That's My Girl - Fifth Harmony

If you ever need to feel like you can take on anything, this is the song for you.

Empowering lyric: “You've been down before / You've been hurt before / You got up before / You'll be good to go, good to go”

God is a Woman - Ariana Grande

Ari proved that God is a woman and it's just what we needed to hear.

Empowering lyric: “And I can be all the things you told me not to be / When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing / And he see the universe when I'm in company / It's all in me”

Man! I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain

Way back in 2003, Shania was already breaking the gender barrier.

Empowering lyric: “I want to be free, yeah, to feel the way I feel / Man! I feel like a woman!”

Wannabe - Spice Girls

Your squad is the ultimate #goals and you know it!

Empowering lyric: “If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends / Make it last forever, friendship never ends”

Love Myself - Hailee Steinfeld

You're perfectly capable of anything you want to achieve.

Empowering lyric: “I love me / Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else / Anytime, day or night.”

Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

Sometimes, you don't need to care about them haters

Empowering lyric: “Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate / Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake / I shake it off, I shake it off”

Scars to Your Beautiful - Alessia Cara

Everyone is beautiful in their own way

Empowering lyric: “But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark / You should know you're beautiful just the way you are / And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart / No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful”

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

You can easily get back up

Empowering lyric: “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger / Stand a little taller / Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone / What doesn't kill you makes you a fighter / Footsteps even lighter / Doesn't mean I'm over 'cause you're gone”

Firework - Katy Perry

News flash: You're unique and badass

Empowering lyric: “You don't have to feel like a waste of space / You're original, cannot be replaced / If you only knew what the future holds / After a hurricane comes a rainbow”


IDGAF - Dua Lipa

Every single time bae tries to apologize after messing up, play this song

Empowering lyric: “Well, I'm too busy for your business / Go find a girl who wants to listen / 'Cause if you think I was born yesterday / You have got me wrong”

Independent Women (Part 1) - Destiny's Child

The ultimate girl power anthem for every woman of any age

Empowering lyric: “Question, tell me how you feel about this / Try to control me, boy, you get dismissed / Pay my own fun, oh, and I pay my own bills / Always fifty-fifty in relationships

I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan

Because you don't need to apologize for being you

Empowering lyric: “I'm every woman / It's all in me / Anything you want done baby / I'll do it naturally”