The bass and drum kick into crescendo as the crowd excitedly screams for LVA GRL (pronounced “lava girl”), their voices steadily rising over the reverb, resounding through the main stage at New York City’s Bowery Electric on a calm and chilly February night. The genderfluid and queer musician is playing their first show of 2022 with a set list composed of old songs and new tracks off their new EP, Sad Boy Szn, out today.

In 2019, FLETCHER, queen of the "unlovers club," unapologetically sung her way through the aftermath of heartbreak on her EP ‘you ruined new york city for me.’ Now she’s back to slay 2020 with a new single, “Forever,” a pop club-banger about prioritizing self-love and all the exploration that comes with it.

Mental health bops, especially those by women, have become easier to find and groove to in the last year and a half. Take Ariana Grande’s Billboard hit “Breathin’” off her album Sweetener, which chronicles her struggle with the side effects of PTSD; Olivia O’Brien’s “Empty”, which navigates depression and self-medication; and Florence and the Machine’s “Hunger”, which originated as a poem about Welch’s experience with an eating disorder at age 17.

“Ten New Friends” is the seventh track on singer, songwriter, and dancer Victoria Monet’s first album, Life After Love: Part 1, which released on February 23rd of this year. The album chronicles Monet’s previous relationship, starting from the beginning, where she explains that the love between she and her former lover felt “like birth,” before then taking the listener through all the post-break-up emotions: anger, sadness, regret, and self-reflection and realization. But perhaps the most unique and liberating part of Monet’s post-break-up journey is the discovery of self-pleasure and the agency that comes with it.

Vulnerability is anything but weak, and if there is one person in pop music who has made it her mission to empower others to believe in that very statement, it’s Demi Lovato. On March 16, 2018, Demi was “sorry, not sorry” when she bared all on stage, in front of thousands of Lovatics, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

This battle between Team Android vs. Team iPhone has even spilled over into the dating scene and well, it’s pretty f*cking awful. As if navigating the dating scene wasn’t frustrating enough between the worries of hookup culture and dating apps, we now have to worry about our phones. Thanks, trolls.

On August 5th, 2017, Disney Junior’s Doc McStuffins aired an episode titled “The Emergency Plan,” which featured an interracial, lesbian couple. The couple were voiced by actresses Wanda Sykes and Portia de Rossi, who identify as lesbians. Though the premise of the episode was about emergency safety, such as teaching kids how to take precaution from a hurricane, what was more was the visibility and the portraying of LGBTQ+ identifying parents as normal, not “other.”

Freeform’s new show, The Bold Type officially premiers July 11th at 9 PM EST/8 PM PST, does more than just follow the stories of three best friends working for Scarlet Magazine, a global women’s magazine - it demonstrates the power of women.

Ariana Grande traded her pink pumps and upbeat, sticky sweet love songs for Louboutin thigh-high boots and a feminist-inspired, much darker, more mature sound at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Grande is currently working (read: strutting) her way through the country on the first leg of her Dangerous Women Tour, promoting her album of the same name, which was released May 20th, 2016.