What are some uplifting/inspiring/empowering songs? (I mean like songs about personal struggles... or political struggles...) (pls link if possible)

Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

(As featured in Edd's Zombeh Attack -- at 4:42 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/269862)

Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now

If you're into the epic/metal stuff

Turisas - Stand up and fight

Judas Priest - United

I will survive - Gloria Gaynor

Alternatively:

I Will Survive - Cake (RIP Greg Brown)

A lot of stuff by The Alan Parsons Project, notably:

• Eye In The Sky
• Prime Time

Coldplay

• A Message
• The Hardest Part

Bruce Springsteen (huge caveat is that it's really hard to tell what he's saying when he sings, lol)

• The Promised Land
• Badlands

Various Artists

• All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
• Any Major Dude Will Tell You by Steely Dan

David Bowie made a lot of songs about recovering from drug problems but they're more for ruminating on your issues than inspiring and uplifting from them.

• Sound and Vision and Ashes to Ashes are the most notably examples of this
• Heroes manages to be more uplifting and motivational

Death Cab for Cutie are also really really good for their songs about personal struggles

• The Sound of Settling

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All of these links are spotify, I can add youtube if that's more convenient.

Not the lyrics, but no song has ever made me as dancy as Pitbull's Fireball

Michael Franti has a lot of feel-good songs.

I like myself most of the time by K Flay

Feeling good - Nina Simone

Don't stop me now - Queen

Good life - One Republic

Good as hell - Lizzo

Shake it out - Florence and the Machine

Raise your glass - Pink

Stay - Monika Linkyte

I hate people - Lords of the Lost

Power - Dilja

Heart of steel - Tvorchii

The code - Nemo

Fighter - Tali

We will rave - Kaleen

Serving - Mariana Conte

Survivor - Parg

You should see me in a crown - Billie Eillish

Seize the power - Monika

A lot of uplifting stuff by IDLES. The singer struggled with depression and drug addiction himself for years. Many of their songs are either about empowerment, equality, mental health... or about rotten media, how parasitic our politicians are, punching nazis in the face... you get the gist.

IDLES - Television

IDLES - Gift Horse

IDLES - POP POP POP

Take Back the Power - The Interrupters

Dream Big - Bob Vylan

Boot 2 Boot - The Horrorpops

The Guillotine - The Coup

I find Praying by Kesha to be very uplifting and empowering.

Sea of Doubt by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard!

The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde) - I'll Stand By You

Peter Tosh - Pick Myself Up

Most of the tracks on "...And Then There Were Three..." by Genesis. Kept me alive through my darkest days of highschool.

"I am the mountain" by Wind Rose is one of my personal all-time favorites

Gloria Estefan: Get On Your Feet

Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer and Big Time

Madonna: Express Yourself

NF - Hope
NF - The Search

Sara Bareilles — "King of Anything"

Malena Cadiz — "Rattle the Windows"

Queen — "Princes of the Universe"

Stand Tall by Burton Cummings Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean

Open Blinds by Droeloe

Here is my Melancholy playlist. Not sure if I would call it uplifting per se but I really like it. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdhMu7XX4FMXsiu7uYHDoA1YNQnQtms8O

Billy Bragg & Wilco: All You Facists

I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised 
People all over this world are getting organized 
You're bound to lose 
You fascists are bound to lose 

Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know 
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go 
You're bound to lose 
You fascists are bound to lose 

All you fascists are bound to lose 
You fascists are bound to lose 
You fascists are bound to lose 
You're bound to lose, you fascists 
Are bound to lose

Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse

https://open.spotify.com/track/4xGuK7FsXuZwHCCuNnPzbD

L'amour toujours by Gigi D'agostino

This one always cheers me up when I'm down

Shirley Manson and Brody Dalle, girls talk

Break - Whispers in my Ear

https://youtu.be/gUnZCuWbaZM

Parabol/Parabola by Tool has the most uplifting lyrics I've ever heard.

If you want empowering, you can't go wrong with The Prodigy.

My personal fight song is Stand Up

Gogol Bordello - Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOKb1lHNQE

not in english but you might like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFguYNU4E8g

Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone

Seth sentry - simple game

https://open.spotify.com/track/7oJtO1LdddkewWmJZH6x5R

Bliss n ESO - addicted

https://open.spotify.com/track/4dFpc8oA3SroWIKyMQNINT

Disturbed - in another time

https://open.spotify.com/track/7oBbn0yFlspuZrNP8Mi0yX

Calyx & teebee - long gone

https://open.spotify.com/track/6V9c2rDSlFKG1PFW56c7bA

Bellagio - we have a dream

https://open.spotify.com/track/6FVolXH3SsD0aFRiRgVH1j

And I have more...

Maybe some of these more touch on "thought provoking" instead, idk. But these songs get me thinking and motivated one way or another.

Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.

Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.

Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.

Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover

Pride Anthem (Molotov Cocktails & Bricks) by Garlic Bread & Roses

Heavy Foot by Mon Rovia

Push by Terrace Martin

Violet by Jeremy Messersmith

The Day by The Roots

Very Much Money by Open Mike Eagle

Broken Ladder by Lil Ugly Mane

Drive by El-P

Freebird II by Parquet Courts

History Lesson Pt. II by Minutemen

Megapunk by Ela Minus

Pack My Box by Patricia Taxxon

Wedding in a Wasteland by Parts and Labor

My Body Fell by Kasko Lunsford

Hold Each Other Up by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NaS-tq2qZs