I firmly believe that there are 3 songs that every girl 12 years old (or older) should listen to: Princesses Don't Cry, Woman's World, and Scars to Your Beautiful. I feel like these songs talk about experiences we've all gone through that can change our lives in very negative ways.
Many times we women are told that crying makes us weak and that we should stop overacting and be more mature, that we are fragile and should act in a certain way in a relationship. Princesses Don't Cry talks about how suppressing your feelings is really unhealthy and by doing so we are hurting ourselves, that sometimes it is okay to cry, It doesn't matter if it's because of something important or just because of a man who broke our hearts, that doesn't make you weak.
Woman's World talks about the differences in women's lives, it talks about the inequality that women experience in their daily lives, it talks about experiences that we have all gone through and that have left us feeling bad. But it also talks about how change is coming and that it doesn't matter if we have to fight, we will achieve a world of equality.
No matter what many people say, all over the world and depending on the culture there are impossible standards that women must meet if they want to be considered beautiful, established standards that are NOT "only used by women to judge each other" and "things that men don't pay attention to." Scars to Your Beautiful talks about insecurities and self-harm (even if they are not called that) that a girl can go through in order to be beautiful, talks about how thanks to impossible standards we cannot see our own beauty and affirms and supports women to be themselves, because you are beautiful just the way you are and it is not fair that they ask you to change to adapt to others.
I don't know, for me these are empowering songs that touched me and made me feel like I was understood and heard, that things could get better. They say that I am not the only one who has felt these things, that many women have gone through these problems and that we can overcome them. That you can never be the perfect woman that society wants you to be and that is okay, because you don't need to be perfect, you just need to be yourself.