For those days or chapters of life when you need to embrace yourself as the strong female leader you are and own it…

Independent Women, Pt. 1 – Destiny’s Child

Songwriters: BEYONCE KNOWLES, RAPTURE STEWART, ERIC SEATS, FRANK COMSTOCK, DAVID DONALDSON

© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Excerpt from:

“If I wanted the watch you’re wearin’, I’ll buy it
The house I live in, I’ve bought it
The car I’m driving, I’ve bought it
I depend on me, I depend on me

All the women who are independent
Throw your hands up at me
All the honey’s who makin’ money
Throw your hands up at me

All the mommas who profit dollas
Throw your hands up at me
All the ladies who truly feel me
Throw your hands up at me”

Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys

Songwriters: Jeff Bhasker / Alicia Augello-Cook / Salaam Remi / Billy Squire / Nicki Minaj

Girl on Fire lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Spirit Music Group

Excerpt from:

“She’s just a girl, and she’s on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway
She’s living in a world, and it’s on fire
Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away
Oh, she got both feet on the ground
And she’s burning it down
Oh, she got her head in the clouds
And she’s not backing down

This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She’s walking on fire
This girl is on fire”

Most Girls – Hailee Steinfeld

Songwriters: Asia Whiteacre / Hailee Steinfeld / Jeremy Dussolliet / Ryan B Tedder / Tim Sommers / Zachary Skelton

Most Girls lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Downtown Music Publishing

Excerpt from:

“You know some days you feel so good in your own skin
But it’s okay if you wanna change the body that you came in
‘Cause you look greatest when you feel like a damn queen
We’re all just playing a game in a way, trying to win at life

Most girls are smart and strong and beautiful
Most girls, work hard, go far, we are unstoppable
Most girls, our fight to make every day
No two are the same
I wanna be like, I wanna be like, most girls”

Wings – Little Mix

Songwriters: Iain James / Tom Barnes / Peter Kelleher / Ben Kohn / Perrie Edwards / Jesy Nelson / Leigh-Anne Pinnock / Jade Thirlwall / Michelle Lewis / Mischke Butler / Erika Nuri / Heidi Rojas / Christian Dotson / Kyle Christopher

Wings lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, The Bicycle Music Company

Excerpt from:

“Mama told me not to waste my life
She said spread your wings my little butterfly

Don’t let what they say keep you up at night
And if they give you shhhh
Then they can walk on by

My feet, feet can’t touch the ground
And I can’t hear a sound
But you just keep on running up your mouth yeah

Walk, walk on over there
‘Cause I’m too fly to care, oh yeah
Your words don’t mean a thing
I’m not listening
Keep talking, all I know is”

Ray Of Light – Madonna

Songwriters: Dave Curtiss / Clive Maldoon / Christine Leach / Madonna Ciccone / William Orbit

Ray of Light lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Downtown Music Publishing

Excerpt from: 

“Faster than the speeding light she’s flying
Trying to remember where it all began
She’s got herself a little piece of heaven
Waiting for the time when Earth shall be as one

And I feel like I just got home
And I feel
And I feel like I just got home
And I feel quicker than a ray of light”

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