Emotional songs sung by female performers.

You can suggest 1, 2, 3, 4 four songs (not more), and then, next week (on thursday), choose one song.

If you have time, and you want to express your opinions on the songs proposed by other forumists,

you are welcome!

You can vote for three songs, the ones you like more (but not for yours).

Enjoy!

EDITED

It will have to be this song for me: Katinka - Idioter (2016)

Having experienced school bullying and failure from teachers, the song carries special meaning for me, and it sends a shiver down my spine.

Lyrics and translation: http://musixmatch.com/lyrics/Katinka-3/Idioter/translation/english

 

 

 

I'll give some further thought to my subsequent suggestions.

 

 

 

Curved Air - Lovechild

Illusion - Madonna Blue

I had already thought of Kate Bush before I saw Chopper's post. I'll post the song here anyway, even if I will probably not make it my pick. It is my favourite song by Kate, with David Gilmour on backing vocals; the title is "Pull Out the Pin":

Next up, another favourite of mine - the beautiful "Edith and the Kingpin" by Joni Mitchell, in the live version from the album Shadows and Light (which would be a shoe-in for PA if single album additions were allowed):

Third (and probably last) song is a homage to two great Italian artists who passed away within weeks of each other: Milva and Franco Battiato (who wrote the song together with his longtime collaborator Giusto Pio). The song title is "Alexanderplatz":

English translation of the lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/alexanderplatz-alexanderplatz.html

Oh, if I had known this before the previous poll, I would have saved Lila Downes for this one...

Nice poll idea, and I will go with two extremes this time: pop and classical.

First, a Spanish group that emerged during the Movida: the cultural movement in Spain that came into being during the transition period (the period after Franco's death in 1975 and the transition to democracy in 1981). Mecano had some major hits and some that touch me very much because of the emotion they convey. I hesitated between two: Mujer contre mujer (of which I actually prefer the French version by Mecano themselves - the lyrics seem to run a bit more smoothly) or Hijo de la luna (there is also a French version by Mecano of this one, but here I prefer the Spanish one...). I will give you Une femme avec une femme, a song against homophobia, which - unfortunately - more than 30 years later hasn't lost it's actuality and necessity.

Mecano - Une femme avec une femme:

(English translation of the lyrics here).

My second one had to come from Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony: A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. I have three different versions of this symphony, but the one I prefer is from a cheap Naxos CD, with Soprano Zofia Kilanowicz, who conveys the emotion behind this symphony much better, imo, than the versions with Dawn Upshaw or Ingrid Perruche that I have. Here, still another version, but still with Zofia Kilanowicz, this time with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (the second movement of three).

Henryk Gorecki - Symphony n° 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, 2nd movement, with Zofia Kilanowicz (Soprano):

The lyrics are taken from the writing on the wall of a cell of the Zakopane concentration camp, a prayer:

Since this latter one is 10 mins. long, I'll refrain (for the moment) to put up a third suggestion...

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U