EMPOWERED WOMEN’S PLAYLIST
Here are fifty* songs whose excerpted lyrics are woven through Don’t Sleep With Him Yet. Individual selections work well when you seek to “lose yourself” (or soothe yourself) in a love song (or lost-love) song. Or simply pull out the entire playlist when you need back-up (literally) motivation or a melodic mood boost! (The playlist is also great to work out to.)
*Two bonus songs were added post-publication.
Can’t Hold Us Down/Christina Aguilera (Introduction)
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun/Cyndi Lauper (Introduction)
Girl on Fire/Alicia Keys (Step 1)
Respect Yourself/Melissa Etheridge (Step 1)
I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar)/Helen Reddy (Step 1)
You Gotta Be/Des’ree (Step 2)
Flawless/Beyoncé (Step 2)
Stronger/Brittany Spears (Step 2)
Before He Cheats/Carrie Underwood (Step 3)
Try/Pink (Step 3)
When I’m Sixty-Four/Paul McCartney (Step 3)
Audition (The Fools Who Dream)/Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul (Step 3)
Cabaret/Liza Minnelli (Step 4)
Matchmaker, Matchmaker/Jerry Bock (Step 4)
Blurred Lines/Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams (Step 5)
Old Friends/Simon and Garfunkel (Step 5)
The Shadow of Your Smile/Tony Bennett (Step 5)
Shadowboxer/Fiona Apple (Step 5)
All About That Bass/Meghan Trainor (Step 6)
Cupid/Sam Cooke (Step 6)
The Look of Love/Burt Bacharach, Hal David (Step 6)
Wicked Game/Chris Isaak (Step 7)
Dancing in the Dark/Bruce Springsteen (Step 7)
In Your Eyes/Peter Gabriel (Step 7)
Shape of You/Ed Sheeran (Step 7)
Someone Like You/Adele (Step 8)
One More Night/Maroon 5 (Step 8)
Somebody That I Used to Know/Gotye (Step 8)
Shake It Off/Taylor Swift (Step 8)
With or Without You/U2 (Step 9)
Single Ladies/Beyoncé (Step 9)
What’s Love Got to Do with It/Tina Turner (Step 9)
At Last/Etta James (Step 9)
She Was Hot/Rolling Stones (Step 10)
A Case of You/Joni Mitchell (Step 10)
Your Body Is a Wonderland/John Mayer (Step 10)
Beautiful/Christina Aguilera (Hot Stuff)
Beautiful/Carole King (Hot Stuff)
Dance: Ten; Looks: Three/Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban (Hot Stuff)
Like a Virgin/Madonna (Appendix 2)
What a Girl Wants/Christina Aguilera (Appendix 2)
Bad Romance/Lady Gaga (Appendix 2)
SMS (Bangerz)/Miley Cyrus (Appendix 2)
You Belong with Me/Taylor Swift (Appendix 2)
Breathe/Taylor Swift (Appendix 2)
Layla/Eric Clapton (Appendix 3)
Something/George Harrison (Appendix 3)
Rolling in the Deep/Adele(Appendix 3)
And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going/ Jennifer Hudson (Appendix 3)
Marilyn Monroe/Nicki Minaj (Appendix 3)
Cry For Me/Camila Cabello (Post-Publication)
Truth Hurts/Lizzo (Post-Publication)