I avoid modern pop music in general… But I’m sorry, I will always have a soft spot for “Baby one more time” by Britney.

I would add “I want it that way” but let’s be real, every dude secretly likes that song.

  • @[email protected]English
    66•1 year ago

    Toxic by Britney Spears. Absolute fucking banger. Musically interesting for an American pop song. Each chorus has the chords walk down, which is pretty cool, but then on the next bar something really interesting happens. Instead of walking down from the second of the four chords, there are back to back tritone substitutions! So fucking cool!

      • NusmEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking too….

    • @[email protected]
      8•1 year ago

      I have an entire playlist that’s just covers of Toxic. It’s too good of a song.

      Try the versions by Solence and Calvin Arsenia.

      • Banana
        4•1 year ago

        My favourite is when hardcore bands cover pop songs because the songs are often structured the same, so good.

  • @[email protected]
    20•1 year ago

    “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None The Richer

    love to know how people interpret a “girl” song. my mind is all over the place atm trying to classify songs and artists. like, is Taylor Swift the bakery of girl songs? does boss bitch / bad bitch energy count within the realm of girl songs? etc.

  • Monster
    18•1 year ago

    Would Lights by Ellie Goulding count because that song slaps

  • @[email protected]English
    18•1 year ago

    Attributing gender to someone’s song preferences has to be the strangest example of mental gymnastics I’ve seen for a while.

    • Feydaikin
      19•1 year ago

      Meh, there’s a ton of songs written strictly from female perspectives or with a female audience in mind. From Peggy Lee to the Spice Girls and so on.

      I feel like they apply as “Girl Songs”.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•1 year ago

        Not how I personally interpreted the question, but that’s a fair point.

        Even if that’s the case though, I don’t see why anyone would have to keep it a secret. To quote a favourite ‘girl song’ of mine…“Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?”

        • Feydaikin
          5•1 year ago

          Being insecure isn’t teenager exclusive, I guess.

          I think OP is just asking the age-old question of “what is you guilty pleasure pop-song”. Just very poorly worded. I’m not gonna hold that against 'em.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•1 year ago

    Every so often I listen to Lady Gaga. I really like a few of her earlier songs but haven’t listened to most of her discography.

    I hate that music and gender are somehow connected, but unfortunately that’s the world we live in. Anyone who gives me crap for listening to/doing/etc. “girly” things is a person I don’t want in my life.

    • Resol van LemmyEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      Unfortunately I have experienced this quite a lot. I was even shamed for wearing the color pink, and that was a shirt for males specifically and they still thought it was “girly”. Also, I was a brony at one point (not anymore), yep, you can guess what happened.

  • @[email protected]
    11•11 months ago

    How has nobody mentioned Girls Just Wanna Have Fun yet? That bubbly energy is a great pick-me-up whenever you need it most.

  • The Bard in Green
    10•1 year ago

    It’s not a secret. I am a cishet male 90s girl. I love Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos and to a lesser extent the Indigo Girls, Jewel, Dido (though she came a little later).