Empowerment songs are nothing new. Of all the things that you can sing about and get the average Joe on your side, then what better to sing about than average Joe topics like falling in love, or becoming rich or just feeling better about yourself for just being you in spite of having neither of the aforementioned nice things that would mean that you actually had something to feel better about.
So empowerment songs are nice and
profitable standardised morale boosters. One size fits all gruel that
everyone can take from your song and lie to themselves that it was a
good song, when in fact it just massaged the gaping fear of
inadequacy that they and everyone else feels every moment of their
fleeting lives but never actually confronts and so sedates with
alcohol, empowerment songs and other people's misery in soap operas
that they can compare with their own misery and so feel superior in
comparison.