Beautiful Songs by Girls with Beautiful Voices NOT about Love or Heartbreak

01. The Bird and the Bee - "Polite Dance Song" (Please Clap Your Hands – EP)

02. Carina Round - "Into My Blood" (The Disconnection)

03. The Duke Spirit - "The Step and the Walk" (Neptune)

04. Feist - "Sea Lion Woman" (The Reminder)

05. Janelle Monae - "Sincerely, Jane" (Metropolis: The Chase Suite)

06. Joanna Newsom - "The Book of Right-On" (The Milk-Eyed Mender)

07. Regina Spektor - "Wallet" (Far)

08. Sia - "Soon We'll Be Found" (Some People Have Real Problems)

09. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Little Shadow" (It's Blitz!)

10. Bat for Lashes - "Daniel" (Two Suns)

Compiled by: mome rath
01. Kate Rusby – "Village Green Preservation Society" (Awkward Annie)
02. ADELE – "Hometown Glory" (Hometown Glory – EP)
03. Amy MacDonald – "This Is the Life" (This Is the Life)
04. Ani DiFranco – "Red Letter Year" (Red Letter Year)
05. Duffy – "Live and Let Die" (War Child Heroes, Vol. 1)
06. Rilo Kiley – "It's A Hit" (More Adventurous)
07. The Bird And the Bee – "I Hate Camera" (The Bird and the Bee)
08. Regina Spektor – "Ghost Of Corporate Future" (Soviet Kitsch)
09. Sol Seppy – "Supermarket Sweep" (Supermarket Sweep – Single)
10. Florence + The Machine – "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" (Lungs)
11. The Be Good Tanyas – "The Junkie Song" (Chinatown)
12. Karine Polwart – "Baleerie Baloo" (Scribbled In Chalk)
13. Anja Garbarek – "Can I Keep Him?" (Briefly Shaking)
14. Lisa Loeb – "Airplanes" (The Purple Tape)
15. Charlotte Martin – "Veins" (Veins)
16. Jolie Holland – "Mad Tom of Bedlam" (Escondida)
17. Nerina Pallot – "Damascus" (Fires)
18. Amy Correia – "Coney Island, USA" (Lakeville)
19. Beulah – "Leaving Home" (Leaving Home – Single)
20. Charlene Soraia – "Pictures In My Mind" (Daffodils & Other Idylls – EP)

Compiled by: vedaholli

This was no easy task. It's amazing how much we women like to sing about love. Even when I didn't think a song was about love at first, there was often some hidden lovey metaphor. I've done my best.

01. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (The Greatest)
02. Regina Spektor - "Laughing With" (Far)
03. Jenny Lewis- "Pretty Bird" (Acid Tongue)
04. Sia- "Beautiful Calm Driving" (Some People Have Real Problems)
05. Feist - "Gatekeeper" (Let It Die)
06. Neko Case - "Deep Red Bells" (Blacklisted)
07. Lavendar Diamond - "My Shadow is a Monday" (Imagine Our Love)
08. Patty Griffin - "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)" (Children Running Through)

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