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.

  • @MrVilliamEnglish
    66•6 months 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•6 months ago

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

    • @TheCannonball
      8•6 months 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•6 months ago

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

    • @Jarlsburg
      4•6 months ago

      If you want to hear a surf rock instrumental cover that is actually phenomenal check out The Surfrajettes. Also amazing name.

  • @samus12345English
    32•6 months ago

    (I actually like White Houses more)

  • DeezEnglish
    27•6 months ago

    Call Me Maybe, such a banger

  • @comfyquaker
    20•6 months 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•6 months ago

    Would Lights by Ellie Goulding count because that song slaps

  • @[email protected]English
    15•6 months ago

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

  • @halloween_spooksterEnglish
    12•6 months 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•6 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.

  • @BenLeMan
    11•6 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.

      • @Pilferjinx
        1•6 months ago

        Man, you don’t know what you’re missing. There’s long hard ones, soft fuzzy ones, and more!

  • The Bard in Green
    9•6 months 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).