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14 Amazing Female Empowerment Songs For Your Next Girls Trip Playlist

Start with these tunes on your next girls trip and we promise great memories will follow.
14 Amazing Female Empowerment Songs For Your Next Girls Trip Playlist
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By Lauren Porter · Updated October 26, 2020
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There is something magically cathartic about dancing and singing along to a great girl power song with your closest friends.

If you have the perfect girls trip planned for your squad this summer, make sure to crank up these can’t miss jams to provide the perfect soundtrack for all of the classic memories you’re about to make.

01

Chaka Khan – “I’m Every Woman”

02

Diana Ross – “I’m Coming Out”

03

Mary J. Blige – “Just Fine”

04

Nina Simone – “Feeling Good”

05

Destiny’s Child – “Independent Women, Pt. I”

06

Aretha Franklin – “Respect”

07

Queen Latifah – “U.N.I.T.Y.”

08

Gloria Gaynor – “I Will Survive”

09

India.Arie – “Video”

10

Alicia Keys – “Girl On Fire”

11

Destiny’s Child – “Girl”

12

Janelle Monáe – Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu

13

Janet Jackson – “Control”

14

Beyoncé – “Run the World (Girls)”

TOPICS:  Girls Trip