Empowering your sense of self worth is often the root of gaining inner happiness and contentment.
Closely tying into the concepts of self-esteem, self-care and self-love, self worth goes beyond practising beauty routines and eating better; it’s about keeping a strong mentality and maintaining your confidence through thick and thin, knowing that you’re better than the things that drag you down.
Whether you’re heartbroken over somebody who’s wasting away your potential, or realising you’re strongest when you’re by yourself, we’ve collected some stand-out songs about self worth, inspiring harmony to flourish through your day to day life.
Songs About Self Worth
1. Khalid ft Disclosure – Know Your Worth
Khalid & Disclosure’s pop collab, Know Your Worth, is about realising your self worth and staying true to your morals even through your worst moments.
This track speaks like one friend to another, opening their eyes about the toxicity of a partner they have fallen blind to, whilst offering empowering support to pull them through their issues;
“He keeps leaving you for dead, I don’t know what you been waiting for, so you’ve got your love locked up instead, but something better’s waiting at your door.”
This track is crowned with a mood-lifting beat, dispelling the fog that looms over a negative self-perception whilst centering your energy in confidence.
Khalid & Disclosure elevate their track’s positivity through a message of persevering with pride, devoting their song to help anyone desperately needing to treat themselves more kindly; “Find someone you know will put you first, find someone who loves you at your worst … Gotta keep your head up.”
2. Alicia Keys – A Woman’s Worth
Alicia Keys’ R&B track, A Woman’s Worth, focuses on a man realising a woman’s worth, ensuring he never fails to give her the respect she’s due.
A Woman’s Worth highlights a woman’s sacrifices against the importance of matching her efforts, encouraging true equilibrium between partners in a relationship;
“She walks the mile, makes you smile all the while being true, don’t take for granted the passions that she has for you, you will lose if you choose to refuse to put her first, she will and she can find a man who knows her worth.”
Beneath Keys’ foremost message of expecting a natural balance with your partner is the intrinsic belief in your own self worth; of refusing to settle for less and recognising when you deserve better;
“If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods, treat you like a real woman should (Baby, I know you’re worth it), if you never play me, promise not to bluff, I’ll hold you down when s*** gets rough.”
3. Hailee Steinfeld – Love Myself
Hailee Steinfeld’s radio-pop track, Love Myself, is anchored in a self-assured message of creating your own happiness after a crushing break up.
This track submerses itself in a positive attitude, using self-love to erase love-spawned despair; “Pictures in my mind on replay, I’m gonna touch the pain away, I know how to scream my own name … Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else.”
Love Myself is a clean and colourful anthem perfect to help surmount your heartbreak by realising you deserve better than the person who brought you so much pain;
“I’ll take it nice and slow, feeling good on my own without you, yeah, got me speaking in tongues, the beautiful, it comes without you, yeah, I’m gonna put my body first, and love me so hard ’til it hurts.”
4. The Offspring – Self Esteem
The Offspring’s gritty punk track, Self Esteem, takes the opposite approach to songs featured on our list so far.
This isn’t a track about learning to love yourself, rather The Offspring retain focus on exploring the mindset of someone suffering from self esteem issues, inciting manipulation and imbalance within their relationship;
“Now I know I’m being used, that’s okay, man, ’cause I like the abuse, I know she’s playing with me, that’s okay ’cause I got no self-esteem.”
Rooted in the pessimistic perspective of a man being played by his girl, The Offspring uncover themes of insecurity and the incessant need for validation spurred by not appreciating your own worth;
“When she’s saying that she wants only me, then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends… Well, I guess I should stick up for myself, but I really think it’s better this way, the more you suffer, the more it shows you really care right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
5. Jayson Lyric ft. Nevaeh – Self Love
Jayson Lyric & Nevaeh’s collab, Self Love, is a blissfully stripped back R&B/pop track devoted to recognising self-worth in all its forms.
This piece is threaded with themes of keeping an admirably mature and peaceful attitude to personal progression and self-love, composed from the perspectives of an independent woman and her spellbound partner;
“I had to learn to love myself, and no I don’t mind no help, I rather do it my myself … You continue to set the bar, they underneath it … I bet them half naked hoes never feel completed … God took his time on you, had to linger on it, you the housewife type, put a ring on it.”
Jayson & Nevaeh describe this track as illustrating that ‘self love is more than just changing your hair, wardrobe, or attempting to redefine yourself – it’s about learning to appreciate yourself physically, emotionally and physically.’
Self Love perfectly gives way to this concept through its serenely sparse instrumental, bestowing a clean and meditative effect upon the track, stripped of all excess and disharmony to allow focus on the spirit.
6. Michael Seven – Self Worth
Michael Seven’s R&B/hip-hop track, Self Worth, is based in a captivating blend of grand piano overlayed upon a synthetic beat, conjuring an almost ethereal yet upbeat landscape for a clear-headed message of self love.
Self Worth notably highlights the needless burden that comes with constantly putting others before yourself, ultimately leading to your neglectful degradation;
“I used to put everyone else first, it didn’t work, I was making myself worse, until I realised my self-worth, learn to love yourself or get yourself hurt.”
Seven’s verses capture countless profound sentiments, from deep spiritual and personal growth to metaphors dismissing rap music’s maximalism, each radiating in the context of the ethereal piano track;
“I know my being is a temple, create your own reality, the mind is all the universe … Everything you searching for in this world already exist within you … Spirit over everything, I hope you find yourself on this earth, grow, elevate and change … Don’t need a new Coupe or a Range, I got diamonds in my brain.”