Misstra Know It All is from his 1973 Innervisions album; the third in a trio of classic releases that sealed his reputation.

Sometimes all you need is a really good playlist to get you back on your game.

Everyone at my school watched The Partridge Family but few teenage boys in the seventies would have conceded that young David was a great singer. How Can I be Sure?

Now then, NWA. All rights reserved.

Nas wants young black kids to have confidence in themselves and avoid the pitfalls of drugs and sexual predators.
Whatever it is, it's making your world feel crumbly and vulnerable, and you don't like it. These songs will pump you up and immediately make you feel a thousand times stronger, tougher, and more amazing. I didn’t see that coming. Add these 25 songs to your library (or just subscribe to the Spotify playlist below! Complete with (apparently) "the greatest Hammond B-3 solo ever”. It’s all delivered with the kind of effortless sass in which she specialised back in the eighties when the band could not set a foot wrong. Here, we present the full, unexpurgated version.

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It is quick and easy. Of course, too much can come across as cockiness or arrogance. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. All though deserving of their place in the Marconium and guaranteed to make you smile. Originally on a 2007 album called We’ll Never Turn Back, the version here if from a 2014 all-star concert celebrating Mavis and her music and features Bonnie Raitt on guitar and vocals. Play on Spotify. Give her any nonsense about never finding a man like you and you’ll get: “I can have another you by tomorrow, so don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable.”. Beyonce is quite a confident sort of person, isn’t she? Irreplacable has one thing (and only one thing) in common with the supremely unconfident song, Will You Love Me Tomorrow? I think that was a lone dissenting voice though.

No, I am … Really …, Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough For the Both of UsNas – I CanMavis Staples (with Bonnie Raitt) – Turn Me AroundBlondie – One Way or AnotherStevie Wonder – He’s Misstra Know It AllPeter Hammill – ConfidenceDavid Cassidy – How Can I be Sure?Billy Swan – I Can HelpNeneh Cherry – Buffalo StanceNWA – Express YourselfBeyonce – IrreplaceableArgent – Hold Your Head Up, Eartha Kitt – Whatever Lola WantsGilbert & Sullivan – The Sun Whose Rays Are All AblazeMuddy Waters – Hoochie Coochie ManTom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Listen To Her HeartHowlin’ Wolf – 300 Pounds of JoyMotorhead – I’m So Bad (Baby I Don’t Care)The Primitives – CrashMint Royale – Sexiest Man In JamaicaAl Green – You Ought to Be With MeEric Bibb – Don’t Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit DownJohn Lennon – How?A Tribe Called Quest – Can I Kick It?Christina Aguilera - BeautifulKarine Polwart – I’m Gonna Do It AllKoko Taylor – 63 Year Old MamaFingersnap – The Bishop of New HampshireThe Pointer Sisters – Yes We Can CanJoan Armatrading – Tall in the Saddle, My favourite female rapper and the epitome of confidence.

You're allowed to wallow and listen to sad music and eat chocolate, because it's okay to feel things.

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It surely is. He’s taking endless showers and making sure he’s looking his best but when it comes to rivals for her affections … It ain’t him who’s going to leave. That’s what I call confidence. Now that’s more like it. Possibly the best single (and video) of the eighties. He’s even there if your child needs a dad. You're feeling inexplicably bummed out and defeated, and awful. Doja Cat) 3:14 0:30. Although it wouldn’t do much for yours if she put the point to you quite so bluntly. Sticking with the lack of confidence that sometimes afflicts all of us, David Cassidy has a question of some import. Oh, someone let the cat out of the bag. Confidentially we learn we're not alone, in lack of confidence we're not alone.”.

These playlists were inspired by readers' song nominations from last week's topic: Reflections on … songs about confidence. Another absolute classic. Now. Is that OK?. There, I said it.