For Multiple Grammy award-winning singer Beyoncé there are more important things to sing about than flashy cars and the club.
During a medley of her hit “Flawless” Queen Bey sampled lines from Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk “We Should All Be Feminists.” laying emphasis on how men feel threatened by women.“ You should aim to be successful, but not too successful; otherwise, you will threaten the man.”
Queen Bey’s been singing about formidable females for ages: See “Independent Women, Part 1” (“I depend on me”), “Run the world (Girls)” and “Bow Down” (“I took some time to live my life / But don’t think I’m just his little wife”) are all about women.
In celebration of her 41st birthday let’s explore Beyoncé’s top-charting and most empowering hits through the years.
1. 2008: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
There’s a ’60s girl-group charm to that hand-clapping bounce, but this No. 1 smash is a thoroughly modern manifesto for bachelorettes everywhere: A woman won’t be held down unless a man makes it official. Bonus points for the iconic video.
2. 2008: Halo
Queen Bey explored her pop side more than ever before, and this blissed-out ballad showcases the singer at her most angelic, floating through the heavens with a chorus that will never come down to earth.
3. 2008: If I Were a Boy
One of her few hits that she didn’t have a hand in writing, this folk-flecked ballad was nonetheless owned by Beyoncé. S*******g away all the diva attitude and revealing a vulnerable soul, it shows our goddess may be part human after all.
4. 2011: Run the World (Girls)
Behind a boom-bastic attack, complete with militaristic drums and what sounds like an army of Beyoncés, this female empowerment anthem will not be stopped short of a total global takeover. Witness the woman at her fist-pumping fiercest
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5. 2011: Love on Top
She played a Diana Ross–like character in Dreamgirls, but it was here that Beyoncé really captured the silky essence of her girl-group-to-solo-superstar forebear.
6. 2014: Flawless
This feminist anthem is, simply put, epic. Blast it full volume when you want to remind yourself that you’re the baddest B out there, even if you’re simply taking a shower.
7. 2016: Formation
She takes the hot sauce out of her bag and pours it all over this surprise release, dropped the day before her second Super Bowl. Celebrating both her Southernness and her Blackness, B goes hard for ladies to join her in systematic slayage.
8. 2016: Hold Up
Cue up the music video in which Beyoncé smashes the windows of parked cars in a yellow gown … because she can. The song lyrics go: “What’s worse, lookin’ jealous or crazy? Jealous or crazy? Or, like being walked all over lately, walked all over lately, I’d rather be crazy.” The hitmaker owns her feelings — no matter what they are — and you should, too.
9. 2019: Brown Skin Girl
This track not only features Blue Ivy Carter’s vocals, but also her songwriting skills (which won Carter her first BET Award). The song also inspired the viral social media movement, #BrownSkinGirlChallenge, in which women of colour celebrated themselves on social media.
10. 2020: Savage (Remix)
Behold, the soundtrack of 2020. When Meghan Thee Stallion dropped the song in March and it’s all about being a boss a*s babe. Queen Bey and Meghan Thee Stallion launched a remixed version of the TikTok hit the following month. She announced that proceeds for the track would be donated to Bread for Life to support the Houston community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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