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Playlists to inspire bruins

Here at UCLA we are accustomed to doing many things that benefit our community, our peers, and ourselves. Through participation in on and off campus, we are constantly striving for the good of all through compassion, generosity, and self-awareness. Below are three playlists that can inspire any Bruin.

Bruins do social justice

This playlist holds some of the most powerful songs from this century and the last. Each song holds a message that calls for social change and equality for the benefit of all. Whether you're participating in a demonstration on campus, signing petitions, or walking in a Black Lives Matter protest, this playlist can resonate with any Bruin. Doing better for yourself, your peers, and your community is something that we live by here at UCLA.

SONGS

BRUINS DO FEMALE EMPOWERMENT

  • "Freedom"

  • "Alright"

  • "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

  • "Redemption Song" 

  • "Fight The Power"

Each of these songs speak to systemic racism against black individuals and calls for freedom and equality for all.

  • "Born This Way"

This song brings awareness and understanding towards sexual identity, gender identity, racial identity, and more

  • "American Idiot"

  • "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"

  • "Blowing in the Wind"

  • "Where is the Love?"

These songs call attention to the harm, oppression, and social issues that war brings upon society.

  • "FDT"

Self-explanatory.

With similar messages to the social justice playlist above, this female empowerment playlist uplifts and brings awareness towards femininity. Each song has the ability to build confidence in anyone who listens to it. With many organizations on campus that revolve around female empowerment in business, medicine, law, and many more, this playlist can be listened to by any Bruin who wishes to empower femininity in their community.

SONGS

BRUINS STUDY

If there's one thing that all Bruins know how to do, it's study. In between their time spent in organizations, internships, jobs, and loads of other things, students at UCLA somehow find the time to do their school work. Thanks to this dedication to their studies, Bruins have made UCLA the #1 public university in the world. This playlist can be used for any student when they're studying for an exam or just doing any kind of work.

SONGS

  • "I Am"

  • "Feeling Myself"

  • "successful"

  • "Beautiful"

  • "***Flawless"

  • "Juice"

  • "Pretty Girl Rock"

These songs use affirmations that inspire confidence, beauty, health, and wealth within anyone who listens to them.

  • "Run the World (Girls)"

  • "Survivor"

  • "Independent Women, Pt. 1"

  • "Fighter"

  • "I'm Every Woman"

  • "god is a woman"

  • "Girl Power"

  • "Salute"

These songs amplify female empowerment and call for unity.

  • "Can't Hold Us Down"

  • "Just A Girl"

  • "Respect"

These songs call out misogyny and sexism in the music industry and society. They all ask for one simple thing: respect.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Frederic Chopin

These classical music songs are simple, elegant, and provide good brain fuel when you're studying or doing work.

  • "French Café"

  • "La Vie En Rose"

  • "Princess Leia's Theme"

  • "Beverly"

  • "Amore mio aiutami"

These aren't classical songs, but they are instrumentals with no singing that also provide brain fuel. 

  • "Plastic"

  • "Space Song"

  • "Steven Universe"

  • "Venice Bitch"

These songs are slow and soft with a little bit of singing. 

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