Valentine's Day 2025: Songs About Self-Love
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Love matters all year round and Valentine's Day is a holiday that celebrates and recognizes the importance of love a little extra. While Valentine's Day often consists of romantic, familial, and platonic love, it is also important to celebrate self-love during this time of year. There are many singles, people healing from breakups, separations, divorce, abuse/neglect, and/or abandonment, and other people in and not in romantic relationships who are struggling with self-love who could benefit from a playlist of self-love songs, especially during this time of year. So, in honor of the week of Valentine's Day, this playlist is for anyone who fits either of those categories.
"Flippin' through all these magazines/Tellin' me who I'm supposed to be/Way too good at camouflage/Can't see what I am, I just see what I'm not/I'm guilty 'bout everything that I eat (every single day)/Feelin' myself is a felony/Jedi level sabotage/Voices in my head make up my entourage"
"'Cause I'm black belt when I'm beating up on myself/But I'm an expert at giving love to somebody else/I, me, myself, and I don't see eye to eye/Me, myself, and I"
"Oh, why do I compare myself to everyone?/And I've always got my finger on the self-destruct/I wonder when I love me is enough (yeah, yeah, yeah)/I wonder when I love me is enough (yeah, yeah, yeah)/Why am I always looking for a ride or die?/'Cause mine's the only heart I'm gonna have for life/After all the times I went and messed it up (All the times I went and messed up)/I wonder when I love me is enough"
2. Still Have Me - Demi Lovato
"I'm a mess and I'm still broken/But I'm finding my way back/And it feels like someone's stolen/All the light I ever had/Like the world disappeared/And I'm laying right here/While the silence is piercing/And it hurts to breathe"
"I don't have much but at least I still have me (I still have me)/And that's all I need/So take my faith but at least I still believe (I still believe)/And that's all I need/I don't have much but at least I still have me"
3. You Don't Do It for Me Anymore - Demi Lovato
"I see the future without you/The h*** was I doing in the past?/Now that I've learnt all about you/A love just like ours wouldn't last"
"I won't fall for your games/So don't hate me when I say/That you don't do it for me anymore/No, you don't do it for me anymore"
4. Sorry Not Sorry - Demi Lovato
"Now I'm out here looking for revenge/Feeling like a ten, the best I've ever been/And yeah, I know how bad it must hurt to see me like this/But it gets worse (wait a minute)"
"Now you're out looking like regret/Ain't too proud to beg, second chance you'll never get/And yeah, I know how bad it must hurt to see me like this/But it gets worse (wait a minute)"
"Baby, I'm sorry (not sorry)/Baby, I'm sorry (not sorry)/Being so bad got me feeling so good/Showing you up like I knew that I would/Baby, I'm sorry (not sorry)/Baby, I'm sorry (not sorry)/Feeling inspired 'cause the tables have turned/Yeah, I'm on fire and I know that it burns"
5. So What - P!NK
"I got a brand-new attitude/And I'm gonna wear it tonight"
"So, so what?/I'm still a rock star/I got my rock moves/And I don't need you/And guess what?/I'm having more fun/And now that we're done/I'm gonna show you tonight/I'm alright/I'm just fine/And you're a tool/So, so what?/I am a rock star/I got my rock moves/And I don't want you tonight"
6. Love Myself - Hailee Steinfeld
"(I love me)/Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (hey!)/Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (I love me)/Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else/Anytime, day or night"
"I take it nice and slow, feeling good on my own/Without you, yeah (hey!)"
"I'm gonna put my body first/And love me so hard 'til it hurts"
7. Scars to Your Beautiful - Alessia Cara
⚠️CONTENT WARNING⚠️: eating disorder and self-harm mentioned
"She just wants to be beautiful/She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits/She craves attention, she praises an image/She prays to be the sculptor by the sculptor"
"Oh, she don't see the light that's shining/Deeper than the eyes can find it, maybe we have made her blind/So she tries to cover up her pain and cut her woes away/'Cause cover girls don't cry after their face is made"
"But/There's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark/You should know you're beautiful just the way you are/And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart/No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful"
8. Try - P!NK
"Where there is desire, there is gonna be a flame/Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned/But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die/You've gotta get up and try, try, try/Gotta get up and try, try, try/Gotta get up and try, try, try"
9. Confident - Demi Lovato
"It's time for me to take it/I'm the boss right now/Not gonna fake it/Not when you go down/'Cause this is my game/And you better come to play"
"I used to hold my freak back/Now I'm letting go/I make my own choice/Yeah, I run this show/So leave the lights on/No, you can't make me behave"
"So you say I'm complicated/That I must be out of my mind/Bu you've had me underrated/Rated, rated"
10. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
"Every day is so wonderful/Then suddenly it's hard to breathe/Now and then I get so insecure/From all the pain/I'm so ashamed"
"I am beautiful no matter what they say/Words can't bring me down/I am beautiful in every single way/Yes, words can't bring me down, oh no/So don't you bring me down today"
11. Try - Colbie Caillat
"Put your make up on/Get your nails done/Curl your hair/Run the extra mile/Keep it slim/So they like you, do they like you?"
"You don't have to try so hard/You don't have to give it all the way/You just have to get up, get up, get up/You don't have to change a single thing/You don't have to try, try, try, try"
12. Lose You to Love Me - Selena Gomez
"I needed to hate you to love me, yeah/To love, love, yeah/To love, love, yeah/To love, yeah/I needed to lose you to love me, yeah/To love, love, yeah/To love, love, yeah/To love, yeah/I needed to lose you to love me"
13. Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa
"Did a full 180, crazy/Thinking 'bout the way I was/Did the heartbreak change me? Maybe/But look at where I ended up"
"I'm all good already/So moved on, it's scary, I'm not where you left me at all"
"If you don't wanna see me dancing with somebody/If you wanna believe that anything could stop me/Don't show up/Don't come out/Don't start caring about me now/Walk away, you know how/Don't start caring about me now"
"Aren't you the guy who tried to/Hurt me with the word goodbye?/Though it took some time to survive you/I'm better on the other side"
14. Piece by Piece (Updated Version from 2023) - Kelly Clarkson
"But piece by piece, I collected me/Off the ground where you abandoned things, yeah/And piece by piece, I filled the holes that you filled in me/At 6 years old"
"I just walk away/When they ask for money/I take care of me/'Cause I love me/Piece by piece, I restored my faith/That a heart can still beat, even when it breaks"
15. You Will Be Found - Dear Evan Hansen (musical)
"Have you ever felt like nobody was there?/Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere?/Have you ever felt like you could disappear?/Like you could fall, and no one would hear?"
"Well, let that lonely feeling wash away/Maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay/'Cause when you don't feel strong enough to stand/You can reach, reach out your hand/And oh, someone will coming running/And I know, they'll take you home"
"Even when the dark comes crashing through/When you need a friend to carry you/And when you're broken on the ground/You will be found/So let the sun come streaming in/'Cause you'll reach up and you'll rise again/Lift your head and look around/You will be found"
16. Human - Christina Perri
"I can hold my breath/I can bite my tongue/I can stay awake for days/If that's what you want/Be your number one/I can fake a smile/I can force a laugh/I can dance and play the part/If that's what you ask/Give you all I am/I can do it/I can do it/I can do it"
"But I'm only human/And I bleed when I fall down/I'm only human/And I crash and I break down/Your words in my head, knives in my heart/You build me up and then I fall apart/'Cause I'm only human"
"I can turn it on/Be a good machine/I can hold the weight of worlds/If that's what you need/Be your everything/I can do it/I can do it/I'll get through it"
"I can take so much/'Til I've had enough"
17. Rise Up - Andra Day
"You're broken down and tired/Of living life on the merry-go-round/And you can't find the fighter/But I see it in you, so we gonna walk it out/Move mountains/We gonna walk it out/And move mountains"
"And I'll rise up/I'll rise like the day/I'll rise up/I'll rise unafraid/I'll rise up/And I'll do it a thousand times again/And I'll rise up/High like the waves/I'll rise up/In spite of the ache/I'll rise up/And I'll do it a thousand times again"
18. Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons
"Fallin' too fast to prepare for this/Trippin' in the world could be dangerous/Everybody circlin' is vulturous/Negative, nepotist/Everybody waitin' for the fall of man/Everybody prayin' for the fall of man/Everybody hopin' they could be the one/I was born to run, I was born for this"
"Whatever it takes/'Cause I do the adrenaline in my veins/I do whatever it takes/'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains"
19. This is Me - The Greatest Showman
"I am not a stranger to the dark/Hide away, they say/'Cause we don't want your broken parts/I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars/Run away, they say/No one'll love you as you are"
"But I won't let them break me down to dust/I kinow that there's a place for us/For we are glorious"
"When the sharpest words wanna cut me down/I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out/I am brave, I am bruised/I am who I'm meant to be, this is me/Look out 'cause here I come/And I'm marching on to the beat I drum/I'm not scared to be seen/I make no apologies, this is me"
20. Show Yourself - Elsa (performed by Idina Menzel) from Frozen 2
"I've never felt so certain/All my life, I've been torn/But I'm here for a reason/Could it be the reason I was born?/I have always been so different/Normal rules did not apply/Is this the day?/Are you the way/I finally find out why?"
"Show yourself/I'm no longer trembling/Here I am/I've come so far/You are the answer I've waited for/All of my life/Oh, show yourself/Let me see who you are"
21. Broken and Beautiful - Kelly Clarkson
"I never held my hand out and asked for something free/I got pride I could roll out for miles in front of me/I don't need your help, and I don't need sympathy/I don't need you to lower the bar for me"
"I know I'm Superwoman, I know I'm strong/I know I've got this 'cause I've had it all along/I'm phenomenal and I'm enough/I don't need you to tell me who to be"
"Can someone just hold me?/Don't fix me, don't try to change a thing/Can someone just know me?/'Cause underneath, I'm broken and it's beautiful"
22. Fall in Line - Christina Aguilera (featuring Demi Lovato)
"All the youth in the world will not save you from growing older/And all the truth in a girl is too precious to be stolen from her"
"It's just the way it is/And maybe it's never gonna change/But I got a mind to show my strength/And I got a right to speak my mind/And I'm gonna pay for this/They're gonna burn me at the stake/But I got a fire in my veins/I wasn't made to fall in line/No, I wasn't made to fall in line, no"
23. Firework - Katy Perry
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag/Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?/Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin/Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?/Do you ever feel already buried deep?/Six feet under screams, but no one seems to hear a thing/Do you know that there's still a chance for you?/'Cause there's a spark"
"You just gotta ignite the light/And let it shine/Just own the night/Like the fourth of July"
"'Cause baby, you're a firework/Come on, show 'em what you're worth/Make 'em go, 'Awe, awe, awe'/As you shoot across the sky/Baby, you're a firework/Come on, let your colors burst/Make 'em go, 'Awe, awe, awe'/You're gonna leave them all in awe, awe, awe"
24. Roar - Katy Perry
"I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath/Scared to rock the boat and make a mess/So I sat quietly, agreed politely/I guess that I forgot I had a choice/I let you push me past the breaking point/I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything"
"You held me down, but I got up (hey!)/Already brushing off the dust/You hear my voice, you hear that sound/Like thunder, gonna shake the ground/You held me down, but I got up (hey!)/Get ready 'cause I've had enough/I see it all, I see it now"
"I've got the eye of the tiger, a fighter/Dancing through the fire/'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar/Louder, louder than a lion/'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar"
25. Fight Song - Rachel Platten
"And all those things I didn't say/Wrecking balls inside my brain/I will scream them loud tonight/Can you hear my voice?/This time this my fight song/Take back my life song/Prove I'm alright song/My power's turned on/Starting right now I'll be strong/I'll play my fight song/And I don't really care/If nobody else believes/'Cause I've still got/A lot of fight left in me"
26. ME! - Taylor Swift
"I promise that you'll never find another like me"
"But one of these things is not like the others/Like a rainbow with all of the colors/Baby doll, when it comes to a lover/I promise that you'll never find another like/Me-eh-eh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh/I'm the only one of me/Baby, that's the fun of me/Eh-eh-eh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh/You're the only one of you/Baby, that's the fun of you/And I promise that nobody's gonna love you like me-eh-eh"
27. Warrior - Demi Lovato
"All the pain and the truth/I wear like a battle wound/So ashamed, so confused/I was broken and bruised"
"Now I'm a warrior/Now I've got thicker skin/I'm a warrior/I'm stronger than I've ever been/And my armor, is made of steel, you can't get in/I'm a warrior/And you can never hurt me again"
28. Praying - Ke$ha
"Wel, you almost had me fooled/Told me that I was nothing without you/Oh, but after everything you've done/I can thank you for how strong I have become"
"'Cause you brought the flames and you put me through h***/I had to learn how to fight for myself/And we both know all the truth I could tell/I'll just say this is I wish you farewell"
"I'm proud of who I am/No more monsters, I can breathe again/And you said that I was done/Well, you were wrong and now the best is yet to come/'Cause I can make it on my own/And I don't need you, I found a strength I've never known/I've been thrown out, I've been burned/When I'm finished, they won't even know your name"
29. Brave - Sara Bareilles
"You can be amazing/You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug/You can be the outcast/Or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love/Or you can star speaking up"
"Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do/And they settle 'neath your skin/Kept on the inside and no sunlight/Sometimes a shadow wins"
"But I wonder what would happen if you/Say what you wanna say/And let the words fall out/Honestly I wanna see you be brave/With what you want to say/And let the words fall out/Honestly I wanna see you be brave"
30. Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
"But I keep cruisin'/Can't stop, won't stop movin'/It's like I've got this music in my mind/Sayin, 'It's gonna be alright'"
"'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play/And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate/Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake/I shake it off, I shake it off (hoo-hoo-hoo)/Heartbreaks gonna break, break, break, break, break/And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake/Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake/I shake it off, I shake it off (hoo-hoo-hoo)"
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