Selena Gomez - “Who Says”

By posting this I’ll probably lose a few dozen followers but I don’t care. There’s no way my daughter won’t love this song and its message and no way she wont be open minded enough to accept that there’s a place in this world for both Sleater-Kinney songs AND Selena Gomez songs.

Sure, someone making their own way in the music industry, releasing edgy songs on an indie label is ostensibly “better”, whatever that means. But something like this, backed by Disney, with a polished catchy mainstream sound is way more likely to reach more impressionable young minds who could benefit from hearing it. Which is basically my roundabout way of saying that Disney a-ok in my book as long as they keep putting out songs like this. And that I’m thrilled and grateful that they’ve helped make empowerment be such a prevalent message in so much teen-centric music. I hope it’s a trend that continues for a very long time.