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Someone like you by Adele

This might be indicative of the type of person I am, but I have another breakup song that I can relate to when it comes to black feminism.  “Someone like You” is a song about  heartbreak, but for me, it resonates as an exploration of vulnerability that Black women have been dealing with for a long time.  It  also  becomes a reflection on what it means to  maintain self-worth and  reclaim   your story .   The first thing that stands out  to me in  “Someone Like You” is  how open the song is . There is no attempt to hide  the  pain. This kind of vulnerability connects strongly to  Bell  Hooks ’ argument in  Ain’t  I  a  Woman  that Black women   have historically been denied the space to express emotional complexity.  She   also  emphasizes how systems of oppression dehumanize by limiting who gets to feel and be seen as fully human. In that sense,  this so...
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Run the World Girls by Beyonce

  Ever since I listened to “Somebody that I Used to Know ”,  I started going through different songs that were either  representative of my new social activism or at the very least different from my usual anime/2010s pop playlists.  It was during this time that I rediscovered  Beyonce and her song, “Run the World (Girls) ”.  It is  kind of  embarrassing  to look b ack at how immature my reactions to songs like this were. I hated it so  badly ,  and this even extended to shows like Powerpuff Girls and Winx Club. I always felt personally slighted when I was younger because  in my head, I was attacked by being a man and in any competitions in TV shows, the guys were dumb jerks who always  lost,  and the girls were smar t heroes who always won.   Thinking more about it, this reaction was  not  completely unwarranted. It was  part   of a broader pattern of the shows and music I engaged  i...
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