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
    67•4 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•4 months ago

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

    • TheCannonball
      8•4 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
        5•4 months ago

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

  • DeezEnglish
    28•4 months ago

    Call Me Maybe, such a banger

  • HirconEnglish
    24•4 months ago

    I’m the same way, but mine is “Toxic” also by Brittany.

  • comfyquaker
    20•4 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.

    • Thavron
      8•4 months ago

      Have you heard the recent album with the Blink 182 guys? Travis Barker drums with Avril’s vocals are great.

      • tobogganablazeEnglish
        7•4 months ago4 months ago

        Oh wow. Yeah I have it but didn’t realise the Blink 182 guys were involved till now.

  • Monster
    18•4 months ago

    Would Lights by Ellie Goulding count because that song slaps

    • Amerikan Pharaoh
      3•4 months ago4 months ago

      Nah, that one was in waaaaaaaaaay too many frag clips during the heyday of dubstep

      The song does slap however

  • blunderworldEnglish
    17•4 months ago4 months ago

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

    • vzq
      24•4 months ago

      Are you new to the whole “human” thing? We gender absolutely everything.

      • otp
        1•4 months ago

        Not as much in English compared to some other (mostly European) languages

    • Feydaikin
      19•4 months ago

      Meh, there’s a ton of songs written strictly from female perspectives or with a female audience in mind. From Peggy Lee to the Spice Girls and so on.

      I feel like they apply as “Girl Songs”.

      • blunderworldEnglish
        10•4 months ago4 months ago

        Not how I personally interpreted the question, but that’s a fair point.

        Even if that’s the case though, I don’t see why anyone would have to keep it a secret. To quote a favourite ‘girl song’ of mine…“Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?”

        • Feydaikin
          5•4 months ago

          Being insecure isn’t teenager exclusive, I guess.

          I think OP is just asking the age-old question of “what is you guilty pleasure pop-song”. Just very poorly worded. I’m not gonna hold that against 'em.

  • halloween_spooksterEnglish
    12•4 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•4 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
    12•4 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.

  • funkless_eck
    12•4 months ago

    it’s more interesting to me you think Britney Spears wasn’t marketed towards men.

  • The Bard in Green
    10•4 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).