Results for “yielding as strength”

Songs

willow

Taylor Swift

willow is a courtship song that frames romantic surrender as both fate and craft, using water and tree imagery to describe a…

romantic fate versus choice yielding as strength seduction and manipulation

How Strong Is a Woman

Ann Peebles

Ann Peebles takes up a question circulating in early-70s soul and pop culture — who's stronger, men or women — and answers it in…

gender roles and power romantic devotion vs independence strength redefined through love

Baby I Need Your Loving

The Supremes

This is a Motown reading of the Four Tops' own hit, recast as a plea from a woman who admits her desire has tipped into…

romantic longing emotional dependency vulnerability as strength

Eagle When She Flies

Dolly Parton

A tribute to womanhood built almost entirely around a single controlling image: the tension between vulnerability and…

female strength and vulnerability resilience after hardship multiplicity of women's roles

Ghetto Dreams

Common

Common builds a composite fantasy of a woman who fuses hood authenticity with high-end glamour, verse by verse assembling and…

idealized femininity as class fantasy hood authenticity versus upward mobility female strength shadowed by objectification

I'm Every Woman

Whitney Houston

A cover of Chaka Khan's disco-era declaration of feminine totality, reworked by Whitney Houston into a glossy, gospel-tinged…

female empowerment universality of womanhood self-possession

Blow Up the Outside World

Soundgarden

A song built on a paradox: a narrator who insists he's unbreakable while quietly confessing he's contemplating annihilating the…

invulnerability as self-deception depression and self-destruction isolation vs. connection

Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 3

Pink Floyd

This is the moment PinkInk's protagonist Pink completes his self-imposed isolation, rejecting comfort, chemical or human, as a…

emotional withdrawal self-destruction disguised as independence accumulated trauma

Still Woman Enough

Loretta Lynn

A late-career declaration of resilience, this song has Lynn taking stock of a long, hard-won life and refusing to concede any…

resilience aging and identity working-class pride

Place to Be

Nick Drake

An opening-track confession that traces a single life arc—innocence, vitality, and eventual depletion—in four spare stanzas. The…

decline and aging loss of innocence spiritual exhaustion

Faith

George Michael

A dance-pop declaration of self-preservation dressed up as a love song: the narrator is attracted to someone but refuses to hand…

romantic self-protection distrust of surface attraction patience versus desire

One Day At a Time

Merle Haggard

This is a plainspoken gospel prayer sung from a position of exhaustion and humility, asking for the strength to survive the…

religious surrender humility and human limitation present-moment endurance