Song review

Love Myself by Olivia O'brien

Olivia O'brien expresses her struggles with other people judging her. All the negativity weighs down on her, and she starts questioning her worth. O'brien realizes she just needs to love herself and figure out who she is on her own. She used to try pleasing others but now understands she has to live for herself. O'brien chooses to work on her self-love before trying to give copious amounts of love to others. 

Our main takeaway from this song: People must focus on self-love to have healthy relationships with themselves and others.

We love this song and its message! You can check it out on our BRAVE Spotify playlist along with other healthy relationship songs here: https://open.spotify.com/user/2ahyndfzgwzba6xqirqwr7xi4/playlist/2d2h67oLcT4pe8Sy1XHFOP?si=FK4CfUOYTfe-ljuVUXFgHA

Lyrics:
Why is it so hard to just be myself?
I feel like I'm different from everyone else
Yeah, why am I like this? Can somebody please tell me?
I look in the mirror and what do I see?
I don't really know who's looking back at me
I don't even know who I wanna be

I don't need to know who I am yet
I don't need to have a solid plan yet
I don't need to be the same as everyone else
I just need to motherf*ckin' love myself

I need to (I need to) I need to love myself x3
I need to love myself before I love anyone else, yeah

No matter how hard I try or what I do
I just can never f*ckin' impress you
So why am I letting what you say get me down?
I spent my whole life thinking I was wrong
And nobody likes me and it's all my fault
But I'm done with that sh*t, I finally figured out

I don't need to be the same as everyone else
I just need to motherf*ckin' love myself

I need to (I need to) I need to love myself
x3
I need to love myself before I love anyone else
I need to, and I don't need your help
I need to (I need to) just f*ckin' love myself
I need to, before I love anyone else
I need to (love myself) just f*ckin' love myself, oh no

Love myself
Love myself

People are constantly judgin' and eyein'
And plottin' and lyin', so why am I tryin'?
They all gon' talk sh*t anyway
They're all gon' say what they wanna say
They're all gon' say what they wanna say anyway
That's why I need to

I need to love myself
I need to, I need to, I need to love myself
I need to, I need to love myself
I need to love myself before I love anyone else
I need to, and I don't need your help
I need to (love myself, I need to), I need to just f*ckin' love myself
I need to (I need to), before I love anyone else
I need to (love myself) I need to just f*ckin' love myself, oh, no