If Women's Day had a soundtrack, this year the song Flowers by Miley Cyrus could not be missing, an allegation in favor of female empowerment.
The 30-year-old singer has given a lesson in self-love with a letter that extols the independence of women: "I can buy myself flowers, I can write my name in the sand, talk to myself for hours and see things that you can't understand I can take myself dancing, even hold my own hand, I can love myself so much better than you can."
Since it was released, it has been at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks.
Cyrus's message is added to many others that famous and powerful women have been launching in recent times on female empowerment. It was Beyoncé, another bona fide boss, who said, "I don't like to bet, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself."
There are several names of famous women who today, March 8, become examples of strength, security, independence and success.
Shakira, who apparently has already completed her healing process with her repertoire of so-called "revenge" songs dedicated to her ex, Gerard Piqué, has confessed that she has overcome one of her weaknesses: "I've always been quite dependent on Men, I have to confess. I have been in love with love and I think that I have managed to understand this story from another perspective. I am enough of myself in life today, I feel complete ”, she assured in the interview that she gave a few days ago and in which she spoke about her separation.
Her partner on the TQG theme, the Colombian Karol G, is another example of empowerment as she has just made history by becoming the first woman to reach number one on the US charts with an album completely in Spanish, Mañana ser bonito. Until now, only Bad Bunny – with A Summer Without You (2022) and previously with The Last World Tour (2020) – had achieved it among male artists in Spanish. It is not surprising that singers from all over the world want to collaborate with the bichota.
Power also the one that Rihanna displayed in her show in the middle part of the Super Bowl. Sheathed in a red jumpsuit, the Barbadian woman would take the stage to sing and announce her second pregnancy to the world.
After six years retired from acting, Rihanna assured that her main motivation for accepting to participate in this important show was that she is now a mother and feels capable of doing anything in this new stage of her life. “When you become a mother, something happens that you feel like you can do anything; As scary as it was, there was something exhilarating about the challenge that this entails.”
Two other women synonymous with empowerment in music are Rosalía and Nathy Peluso. The Catalan has become an example of a self-confident woman with her musical style, urban flamenco, and her unique aesthetic on stage and in her day-to-day life.
For her part, Argentina, "a curvaceous and eloquent bitch" as she says in her song, is a feminist icon in her native country. The reason for her success was conditioned by a strong feminist movement that dominated Argentina at the time when her song Corashe, which talks about how little courage a man shows for not confronting her, was taken as an anthem. . "Within my songs there is implicit a feminine energy that I am passionate about and that I am very proud to champion, but it was not intentional," explained the artist herself, who also embraces another cause: accepting oneself as it is: " I am wonderful, but they told me that I was fat. The fat woman is succeeding mommy, ”she said in an interview.
In that other fight, that of self-esteem, celebrities such as Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello and Adele stand out, who know what it is to receive criticism for their physique and fat-phobic comments. They are an example of respect and improvement. “The beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she attempts to meet society's impossible definition of 'perfect beauty.' I choose to worry about myself because I want to, I don't have to prove anything to anyone. Smooth sailing,” Selena recently wrote on Instagram.
Normalizing cellulite, stretch marks, curves, kilos, menopause and aging are battles that artists like Frances McDormand have been waging for years, who attends red carpets without makeup or dye; Julianne Moore, who raised her voice to ensure that she can't stand those who tell her that she "ages gracefully"; Sharon Stone, who shares makeup-free selfies on her Instagram profile; Gillian Anderson, who has rebelled against uncomfortable bras – “I don't care if my breasts reach my belly button” – and so on, a long list of celebrities who are no longer silent.
