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NPR: Post your empowering breakup songs!
Making a mix for my friend who's going through a divorce.
Not looking for anything mushy. She really needs a pick-me-up list.
TIA!
Mia (6~24~06) & Jillian (6~29~09)
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Re: NPR: Post your empowering breakup songs!
I Will Survive (cheesy, yes, but a break up staple)
?
Got that one! Thanks!
Some others on my list for her:
The chain - Fleetwood Mac
These boots are made for walkin - Nancy SInatra
Good Riddance - Green Day
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Fighter - Christina Aguilera
I just found this site.
https://dating.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_best_breakup_songs
Sisters are doin' it (eurythmics & aretha)
Better Be Good To Me, Miss Tina effin' Turner. My favorite song of all time. Needs to be loud, windows down, and screamed. :-)
Our Lady Peace "Clumsy" (The "I'll be waving my hands watching you drown" song.)
Candlebox "Far Behind" and "Cover Me"
Linkin Park "One Step Closer"
I find angry music therapeutic.
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
"You Gotta Be" by Desiree
Great GREAT empowerment song!
Oh, and if she likes NIN at all, Trent wrote all of the Pretty Hate Machine cd about his ex girlfriend...
"That's what I get" would be good off there.
Good one.
Yummmmm, Trent...
You take my ovaries, I take your yarns.
You Gotta Be by Des'Ree
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
"
Ethan {1.11.10} & Malia {12.28.06}
OH and HOW could I possibly forget this one!!!!! Not a breakup song, nor is it entirely empowering really, but fun for getting out aggressions!!!!!!
the PhuckYou Symphony, by Millie Jackson. And yes it's spelled with the PH.
There are several Alanis Songs
Dido and Jewel have a few too, although a bit sappy. Oh, and Fiona Apple - she is awesome!
But I also suggest Rollins Band - like Bubbly, I find angry music empowering. I have a Rollins Band album from the mid-90s that ROCKS and is great empowering angry music. There was a song on there called "Liar" - freaking fantastic!
Oh, and I also suggest Ace of Base from the early 90s that sang "I Saw The Sign" - their album got me through my first big breakup.
Madonna - Express Yourself
Curve - All Of One
Ben Folds Five-- Song For the Dumped
Erykah Badu - Tyrone
Garbage - Special