I like my phone, which I use for a variety of purposes, but it is not exactly high-end, so occasionally it messes up. Recently it lost my music playlists, which was slightly annoying but not a tragedy.

I had one playlist that was quite extensive, a whole lot of different things linked together, including a lot of “orphans” (where I only own one song by that artist). I decided to make a simpler list (in case it got screwed up again), and then I decided to focus on women, and then the theme drifted a bit more.

I felt like posting it here, so here it is:

• “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
• “If I Were a Boy” (Reba McIntire)
• “Diamonds and Rust” (Joan Baez)
• “Not Ready to Make Nice” (Dixie Chicks)
• “Gentlemen Who Fell” (Milla Jovovich)
• “The Alien Song” (Milla Jovovich)
• “Crazy” (Alanis Morissette)
• “On My Own” (Samantha Barks)
• “Royals” (Lorde)
• “Team” (Lorde)
• “I Dreamed a Dream” (Anne Hathaway)
• “Bird on a Wire” (Johnny Cash)
• “Tower of Song” (Martha Wainwright)
• “Anthem” (Julie Christensen & Perla Batalla)
• “The Magdalene Laundries” (The Chieftains with Joni Mitchell)
• “On My Own” (Lea Salonga)
• “Strange Little Girl” (Tori Amos)
• “Famous Blue Raincoat” (Tori Amos)
• “Haiti” (Arcade Fire)
• “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” (Eddie Redmayne)

 
A few comments:

Beyonce’s version of “If I Were a Boy” is good, too, but Reba’s has a smidge less anger and a bit more regret, which I like for this song.

I have to get Lea Salonga’s version of “I Dreamed a Dream.”

The various Leonard Cohen songs are each represented by my favorite version.

The Chieftains were calling various singers to work with them on an album of traditional Irish songs (which ended up being called Tears of Stone) and when they called Joni Mitchell she said (more or less), “I’d love to, and we’re not going to do a traditional song; we’re going to do one of mine.” 🙂