5 Songs About Women-on-Women Love
February is the love month and we all agree to that, so how about we talk about saphic love for a change? Here are 5 songs that represent it in its finest:
Lunch by Billie Eilish
Billie is not hinting. She is not coding. She is not whispering. The lyrics are direct, physical and confidently sapphic. Hearing one of the biggest pop stars in the world openly sing about wanting a woman felt huge for the community. Not framed as a phase, not for shock value, just desire out in the open. For a lot of queer girls, that kind of visibility hits differently.
Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko
This one raised a generation. The lyrics capture that painfully real moment when you realize your feelings for your best friend are not just friendship. It is soft and intense at the same time. Hayley built her entire identity around centering queer women, and that mattered. For many sapphic listeners, this was the first time they saw themselves as the main love story. The impact went beyond music. “Girls Like Girls” was later expanded into a novel, giving the characters a deeper, fully realized narrative, and it is also being developed into a film. What started as a song became a full cultural universe.
Boyfriend by Dove Cameron
The lyrics flip the narrative. Instead of competing with a man, Dove offers herself as the better option. Confident, flirtatious, intentional. There is no shame in her tone. Just certainty. For queer women used to coded lines and hidden meanings, that kind of boldness feels freeing. It is sapphic desire with main character energy.
Pretty Girls by Renée Rapp
Reneé taps into something very specific. The way a beautiful girl can completely destabilize you. The lyrics feel chaotic but honest, like admitting you are spiraling over someone who probably has no idea. There is softness in it too. It reflects the messy, overwhelming side of queer attraction that so many girls recognize instantly.
I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
Messy, controversial, but culturally loud. The lyrics framed same sex attraction as curiosity, which sparked years of debate. Still, for many young girls in 2008, this was the first time they heard a pop hit openly talk about kissing another girl. It was not perfect representation, but it cracked the door open, and sometimes that is how change starts.
