Great music by women

[IAmAmy]

This may not be the right place or forum for this thread but just in case: I feel music is far too dominated by men. What great songs are there by women? I know most of my favourite songs are by women, I'd love to hear more.

yawning801 thanks for the tip. I must confess I don't mind ABBA blaring out

Discovering lots of new great music here, and rediscovering some I hadn’t listened to for a while... Yay rainy Saturday!

Tracy Chapman
Joan Armatrading
Annie Lennox
Patti Smith
Nina Simone
Missy Elliott
Niagara
Dusty Springfield
Billie Holiday
Joan Jett

Also this

Just what's needed on a Saturday morning I think and thanks for your suggestions SongsOfInnocence!

Quite the contrast but I rather like both...

You listen to his lectures on life
Without one of your own
When he tells you "death is pure"
It reverberates right into your bones
So you ask him for information
On why he once wanted to die
And he gives you satisfaction
In whatever form he loves
To heal the wounds you have
And not to open any more
But that’s all he fucking did
When he fucked you on the floor
And you knew it was all an act
Then what are you crying for?
Yeah, if you knew it was all an act
Then what are you crying?
What did you think when you saw us?
"Oh, it might be fun"
I believed what he taught us
I believed in love

Believed in the chorus
Relieved in his touch
I hate when he chorused
Believe in us

BELIEVE IN US
BELIEVE IN THE
CHORUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

ON
THE
FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09bbqw6/later-with-jools-holland-series-51-live-episode-4

Nearly a year since I started this thread and the great music keeps coming

Resurrecting this thread with Beyonce (just for the OP in the Beyonce thread although I think this is a bit weird)

Mylene Farmer is worth looking up. French singer

Oooh!

Cary Ann Hearst of Shovels & Rope is my current favourite:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=95COmsGKdkk

Nooo lass nooo. Literally the only bad beyonce live performance thanks to ed.

Mumsnet women made this awesome playlist of feminist music...

open.spotify.com/user/katyworley/playlist/6jL7wLNsqJVbDhdCfjXw0k?si=GDiNKgpnQH-FSXadGJw_KQ

Nooo lass nooo. Literally the only bad beyonce live performance thanks to ed

Sorry I may have been ever so slightly, maybe just a teeny, little bit teasing there.

Is this better?

I've just come across Rachel Platten's Fight Song and it put me in mind of @djlippy's Spotify Mumsnet list (which won't open at present) so I thought I'd drop this in here. :)

Here is a playlist for great bands made up of sisters. There are so many! www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5pkTTdqYLY3c5OGZOOQQI__4nt6yixg

Here is all the good girls in bands. This is a bit punky!
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5pkTTdqYLZisFsCOgWsgv4gRgANUs_u&disable_polymer=true

And if you like rap
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5pkTTdqYLZehBJ127O2LxjrSLYH7EB9

Honestly this is all I do with my days. Themed playlists