SAAM MEDIA LIBRARY
Music + More.
Explore songs connected to survivor experiences, sexual violence, consent, harassment, trafficking and exploitation, healing, empowerment, and the cultural messages that shape how we talk about sexual violence.
Start with our featured SAAM Playlist Picks or browse the complete music library below.
COMPREHENSIVE MUSIC COLLECTION
Listen, reflect, and start a conversation.
The collection includes direct survivor narratives, healing and empowerment songs, consent and prevention resources, trafficking awareness music, and selections for media-literacy discussion.
TRIGGER WARNING
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SAAM Playlist.
Listen while you explore the collection. Our SAAM playlist brings together music connected to survivor experiences, healing, empowerment, awareness, consent, resilience, and advocacy.
Some songs contain explicit or potentially triggering themes. Please review content information and choose what feels right for you.
ABOUT THIS COLLECTION
Music can hold difficult stories — and powerful ones.
Some songs in this library directly address sexual violence or survivor experiences. Others focus on healing, resilience, consent, boundaries, trafficking awareness, empowerment, or cultural messages worth discussing during Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Survivor Narratives
Songs that directly address sexual violence, disclosure, trauma, or aftermath.
Healing + Empowerment
Music connected to strength, resilience, support, recovery, and reclaiming voice.
Consent + Prevention
Songs useful for conversations about boundaries, autonomy, harassment, and healthy relationships.
Awareness + Media Literacy
Music that can help examine exploitation, victim blaming, sexualization, and rape culture.
FEATURED PLAYLIST
SAAM Playlist Picks.
A curated starting point for awareness events, education, reflection, or personal listening. Preview each selection before public use and consider the audience, setting, and content notes.
Til It Happens to You
Lady Gaga • 2015
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeWritten for a campus sexual assault documentary and centered on the emotional reality of surviving sexual violence.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Me and a Gun
Tori Amos • 1992
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeA stark first person song rooted in Amos’s experience of rape and its psychological aftermath.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Sullen Girl
Fiona Apple • 1996
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeAddresses numbness, isolation, and trauma after sexual violence.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Hands Clean
Alanis Morissette • 2002
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeReflects on a secret sexual relationship between an adolescent and a much older adult.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Boys Will Be Boys
Stella Donnelly • 2017
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeChallenges victim blaming and excuses used to minimize sexual violence.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Gatekeeper
Jessie Reyez • 2017
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeAddresses coercive sexual demands and power abuse in the music industry.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →The Face of God
Camp Cope • 2018
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeCenters disbelief and community response after sexual assault.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →I Believe You
FLETCHER • 2018
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeA survivor affirming song about believing people who disclose sexual violence.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Snow Angel
Reneé Rapp • 2023
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeRapp has publicly connected the song to being drugged and sexually assaulted and to surviving the aftermath.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Your Power
Billie Eilish • 2021
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeExamines the abuse of power and exploitation in relationships involving major age and power differences.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Cannibal
Marcus Mumford • 2022
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeMumford has publicly connected the song to childhood sexual abuse and disclosure as an adult.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →In the End
Drake Bell • 2024
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeBell has said the song reflects sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →True Colours
Becky Hill feat. Self Esteem • 2024
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeAn explicit first person account of sexual assault by a trusted person and not being believed.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →If They Knew What You Did
Izzie Derry • 2025
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeWritten about the fear and shame survivors may experience when disclosing sexual assault.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Breaking My Silence
Lana Pongpaibul • 2025
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeA survivor centered song about sexual assault, disbelief, and breaking silence.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →4th Day Prayer
Allison Russell • 2021
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeA direct recollection of sexual abuse by Russell’s adoptive father and a central part of her survivor narrative.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Persephone
Allison Russell • 2021
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeReflects on refuge and tenderness after escaping an abusive home.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Praying
Kesha • 2017
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Not All Men
Morgan St. Jean • 2021
Consent / prevention / bodily autonomyA prevention oriented song about the constant calculations women make around sexual safety.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Touch Me Again
Petrol Girls • 2016
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeExplicitly demands respect for consent and bodily autonomy after unwanted touching.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →No Means No
Alexa Curtis • 2024
Consent / prevention / bodily autonomyDirectly reinforces that refusal must be respected and rejects victim blaming.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →All You Wanna Do
SIX / Catherine Howard • 2018
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeDramatizes repeated grooming and sexual exploitation of Catherine Howard from adolescence into adulthood.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →Quiet
MILCK • 2017
Consent / prevention / bodily autonomyAn empowerment anthem strongly associated with speaking out against harassment and abuse.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →This Is to Mother You
Sinéad O’Connor & Mary J. Blige • 2007
Human trafficking / sexual exploitation awarenessRecorded in support of Girls Are Not For Sale and child trafficking awareness.
Audience: Adults / professionals / trafficking awareness
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →BLAST (Black Leaders Against Sex Trafficking)
Donna Theresa • 2025
Human trafficking / sexual exploitation awarenessA 2025 awareness single explicitly opposing sex trafficking.
Audience: Adults / professionals / trafficking awareness
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Survivor
Destiny’s Child • 2001
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Brave
Sara Bareilles • 2013
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Rise Up
Andra Day • 2015
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Freedom
Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar • 2016
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Rainbow
Kesha • 2017
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield • 2004
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Stand by You
Rachel Platten • 2015
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →True Colors
Cyndi Lauper • 1986
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Open My Door
Alice Phoebe Lou • 2021
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Free Woman
Lady Gaga • 2020
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →You’re Not Alone
Allison Russell feat. Brandi Carlile • 2022
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor • 1978
Survivor healing / empowermentThis is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →I’m the Boss of My Body
Netflix Jr. • 2023
Consent / prevention / bodily autonomyChild friendly body autonomy and consent education.
Audience: Youth / caregivers / educators
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Maybe Doesn’t Mean Yes
AMAZE • 2020
Consent / prevention / bodily autonomyEducational music video teaching that uncertainty or ambiguity is not affirmative consent.
Audience: Youth / caregivers / educators
Facilitation Note: Preview for audience, setting, and clean/explicit version.
Listen / Learn More →Division of Trauma (TW: Sexual Assault, Abuse, Coercion)
Jennifer Rodriguez • 2025
Direct sexual violence / survivor narrativeThe release itself explicitly identifies sexual assault, abuse, and coercion as its subject matter.
Audience: Adults / general community
Facilitation Note: Preview first. Introduce with a content note and allow participants to opt out.
Listen / Learn More →COMPREHENSIVE MUSIC LIBRARY
Explore the full collection.
The complete library includes every music entry in the 2026 SAAM resource list. Use the category links below to jump directly to the kind of resource you are looking for.
76 ENTRIES
Direct Sexual Violence + Survivor Narratives
Songs directly connected to sexual violence, survivor disclosure, trauma, and aftermath.
17.
Braver Collective contributor • 2026
SAAM Focus: Sexual abuse; adolescent survivor; trauma aftermath
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
An original survivor song reckoning with sexual abuse experienced at age seventeen and its long term impact.
Content Notes: Sexual abuse; adolescent survivor; trauma aftermath
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →29
Demi Lovato • 2022
SAAM Focus: Grooming; age gap; power imbalance
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Widely interpreted by the artist and public discussion as confronting a relationship that began with a major age and power imbalance.
Content Notes: Grooming; age gap; power imbalance
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →4th Day Prayer
Allison Russell • 2021
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; incest; survivor narrative
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A direct recollection of sexual abuse by Russell’s adoptive father and a central part of her survivor narrative.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; incest; survivor narrative
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →A&W
Lana Del Rey • 2023
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; victim blaming; misogyny
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Explores sexualization, victim blaming, and the way women are judged after violence.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; victim blaming; misogyny
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →All You Wanna Do
SIX / Catherine Howard • 2018
SAAM Focus: Grooming; child sexual exploitation; abuse of power
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Dramatizes repeated grooming and sexual exploitation of Catherine Howard from adolescence into adulthood.
Content Notes: Grooming; child sexual exploitation; abuse of power
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Armagh
Au Pairs • 1981
SAAM Focus: Institutional sexual abuse; women in custody
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses sexual abuse and institutional power affecting incarcerated women.
Content Notes: Institutional sexual abuse; women in custody
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Ask Me
Amy Grant • 1991
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses child sexual abuse and the path toward disclosure and healing.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; survivor support
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Asking for It
Hole • 1994
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; victim blaming; rape culture
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Title and themes confront the victim blaming idea that a survivor can be asking for assault.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; victim blaming; rape culture
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →At the Purchaser’s Option
Rhiannon Giddens • 2017
SAAM Focus: Enslavement; sexual exploitation; reproductive violence
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Explores the sexual and reproductive exploitation of enslaved women.
Content Notes: Enslavement; sexual exploitation; reproductive violence
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Boys Will Be Boys
Stella Donnelly • 2017
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; victim blaming; rape culture
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Challenges victim blaming and excuses used to minimize sexual violence.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; victim blaming; rape culture
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Breaking My Silence
Lana Pongpaibul • 2025
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; disbelief; speaking out
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A survivor centered song about sexual assault, disbelief, and breaking silence.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; disbelief; speaking out
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Caleb Meyer
Gillian Welch • 1998
SAAM Focus: Attempted rape; self defense
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Narrative song about an attempted rape and a woman defending herself.
Content Notes: Attempted rape; self defense
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Cannibal
Marcus Mumford • 2022
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; male survivor; disclosure
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Mumford has publicly connected the song to childhood sexual abuse and disclosure as an adult.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; male survivor; disclosure
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Cleaning Out My Closet
Angel Haze • 2012
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; trauma; disclosure
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A survivor disclosure addressing childhood sexual abuse and its lasting effects.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; trauma; disclosure
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Coma
Big Thief • 2017
SAAM Focus: Sexual trauma; dissociation; aftermath
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in survivor focused music discussions for its treatment of trauma, detachment, and violation.
Content Notes: Sexual trauma; dissociation; aftermath
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Daddy
Korn • 1994
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; disbelief; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A highly distressing survivor centered song about childhood sexual abuse and not being believed.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; disbelief; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Date Rape
Sublime • 1992
SAAM Focus: Acquaintance rape; criminal justice
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Narrative explicitly centered on date rape and legal consequences.
Content Notes: Acquaintance rape; criminal justice
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Dead Men Don’t Rape
Delilah Bon • 2023
SAAM Focus: Rape culture; survivor anger; feminist protest
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A confrontational protest song about rape culture, fear, and survivor anger.
Content Notes: Rape culture; survivor anger; feminist protest
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Dead Men Don’t Rape
7 Year Bitch • 1992
SAAM Focus: Rape culture; feminist protest
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Riot grrrl era anti rape protest music; explicit and best used with context.
Content Notes: Rape culture; feminist protest
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Division of Trauma (TW: Sexual Assault, Abuse, Coercion)
Jennifer Rodriguez • 2025
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; abuse; coercion; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
The release itself explicitly identifies sexual assault, abuse, and coercion as its subject matter.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; abuse; coercion; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Fillthee
Otep • 2002
SAAM Focus: Sexual abuse; rage; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A heavy, survivor centered expression of abuse, rage, and psychological injury.
Content Notes: Sexual abuse; rage; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Fine Line
Kesha • 2023
SAAM Focus: Abuse; exploitation; institutional power; survival
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Part of Kesha’s post litigation work confronting exploitation, disbelief, and survival.
Content Notes: Abuse; exploitation; institutional power; survival
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Fourteen
Nina del Río • 2017
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; adolescent survivor
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in Berklee’s sexual violence awareness playlist and centered on sexual harm experienced young.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; adolescent survivor
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Fuck and Run
Liz Phair • 1993
SAAM Focus: Sexual relationships; coercion; emotional aftermath
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Frequently included in discussions of sexual autonomy, vulnerability, and harmful sexual dynamics.
Content Notes: Sexual relationships; coercion; emotional aftermath
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Gatekeeper
Jessie Reyez • 2017
SAAM Focus: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses coercive sexual demands and power abuse in the music industry.
Content Notes: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Grace
Marcus Mumford • 2022
SAAM Focus: Disclosure; family response; healing
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Part of Mumford’s album confronting childhood sexual abuse and the process of telling loved ones.
Content Notes: Disclosure; family response; healing
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Gratitude
Ani DiFranco • 1998
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; coercion; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included by Berklee in its sexual violence awareness playlist for its treatment of violation and power.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; coercion; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Hands Clean
Alanis Morissette • 2002
SAAM Focus: Grooming; statutory sexual abuse; abuse of power
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Reflects on a secret sexual relationship between an adolescent and a much older adult.
Content Notes: Grooming; statutory sexual abuse; abuse of power
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →His Story
TLC • 1992
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; credibility; victim blaming
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses disbelief, credibility, and the stories society tells about victims and accused people.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; credibility; victim blaming
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →How Could You
Jessie Murph • 2022
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; betrayal; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Frequently cited in survivor focused discussions for its depiction of violation, betrayal, and anger.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; betrayal; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →I Believe You
FLETCHER • 2018
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; survivor validation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A survivor affirming song about believing people who disclose sexual violence.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; survivor validation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →I Kind of Relate
Drake Bell • 2024
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; trauma; male survivor
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Part of Bell’s public musical processing of abuse experienced as a teenager.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; trauma; male survivor
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →If Bodies Are Speaking Vessels for God
Mary Lambert • 2014
SAAM Focus: Sexual trauma; body; reclaiming self
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in Berklee’s playlist for survivor centered themes of body, trauma, and reclamation.
Content Notes: Sexual trauma; body; reclaiming self
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →If They Knew What You Did
Izzie Derry • 2025
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; disclosure; shame; family response
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Written about the fear and shame survivors may experience when disclosing sexual assault.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; disclosure; shame; family response
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →In the End
Drake Bell • 2024
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; male survivor; grooming
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Bell has said the song reflects sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; male survivor; grooming
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →I’m Fine
Self Esteem • 2021
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; consent; women’s safety
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses sexual assault, everyday fear, and the right to say no.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; consent; women’s safety
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →I’m Taking My Body Back
Rupi Kaur • 2020
SAAM Focus: Bodily autonomy; survivor reclamation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Spoken word focused on reclaiming ownership of the body after violation.
Content Notes: Bodily autonomy; survivor reclamation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Janie’s Got a Gun
Aerosmith • 1989
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; incest; retaliation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Narrative about a girl abused by her father and the violent aftermath.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; incest; retaliation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Joyful Motherfuckers
Allison Russell • 2021
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor joy
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Centers joy, community, and survival after trauma.
Content Notes: Healing; resilience; survivor joy
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?
The Offspring • 2008
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; bystander regret; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Written from the perspective of someone reflecting on a childhood peer who was sexually abused and wishing they had helped.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; bystander regret; survivor support
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Liar
Bikini Kill • 1992
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; anger; survivor response
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A confrontational feminist punk response to sexual harm and deception.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; anger; survivor response
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Love Is Blind
Eve feat. Faith Evans • 1999
SAAM Focus: Intimate partner violence; sexual violence context
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Tells a story of severe partner abuse and is useful when discussing overlapping forms of gender based violence.
Content Notes: Intimate partner violence; sexual violence context
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Man Down
Rihanna • 2010
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; retaliation; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
The narrative and video connect sexual assault with trauma and retaliatory violence.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; retaliation; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Me and a Gun
Tori Amos • 1992
SAAM Focus: Rape; survivor narrative
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A stark first person song rooted in Amos’s experience of rape and its psychological aftermath.
Content Notes: Rape; survivor narrative
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Mother I Sober
Kendrick Lamar feat. Beth Gibbons • 2022
SAAM Focus: Intergenerational sexual trauma; child sexual abuse; family silence
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Explores intergenerational sexual trauma, family beliefs, silence, and healing.
Content Notes: Intergenerational sexual trauma; child sexual abuse; family silence
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now
Amanda Palmer & Jasmine Power • 2018
SAAM Focus: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; #MeToo
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Directly engages allegations of sexual misconduct and the dynamics of powerful abusers.
Content Notes: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; #MeToo
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Nightflyer
Allison Russell • 2021
SAAM Focus: Survival; healing; reclamation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Part of a survivor centered album that moves from abuse toward survival and self possession.
Content Notes: Survival; healing; reclamation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Off Duty Trip
The Raincoats • 1979
SAAM Focus: Rape; military violence; institutional power
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses a rape case involving military power and accountability.
Content Notes: Rape; military violence; institutional power
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Old Man
Stella Donnelly • 2019
SAAM Focus: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; accountability
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Challenges abusive men and the protection they receive from social power.
Content Notes: Sexual harassment; abuse of power; accountability
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Only Love Can Save Us Now
Kesha • 2023
SAAM Focus: Trauma; survival; anger; reclamation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A survivor empowerment track rooted in anger, resilience, and reclaiming self.
Content Notes: Trauma; survival; anger; reclamation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Persephone
Allison Russell • 2021
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; escape; refuge; chosen family
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Reflects on refuge and tenderness after escaping an abusive home.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; escape; refuge; chosen family
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Polly
Nirvana • 1991
SAAM Focus: Kidnapping; rape; survivor violence
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Written around a real kidnapping and rape case and often used to discuss sexual violence in popular music.
Content Notes: Kidnapping; rape; survivor violence
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Possession
Sarah McLachlan • 1993
SAAM Focus: Stalking; sexualized obsession; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Built from obsessive correspondence and useful for discussing stalking, entitlement, and boundary violations.
Content Notes: Stalking; sexualized obsession; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Prison Sex
Tool • 1993
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; cycle of abuse; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Explores childhood sexual abuse and the cycle of victimization and perpetration; graphic and complex.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; cycle of abuse; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Quarterback
Kira Isabella • 2014
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; intoxication; victim blaming
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Country narrative involving sexual assault, intoxication, and community response.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; intoxication; victim blaming
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Rape Me
Nirvana • 1993
SAAM Focus: Rape; victim blaming; anti rape messaging
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
An intentionally confrontational anti rape song that requires careful contextualization before public use.
Content Notes: Rape; victim blaming; anti rape messaging
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Runaway Love
Ludacris feat. Mary J. Blige • 2006
SAAM Focus: Child sexual abuse; exploitation; family violence
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Narratives include girls facing sexual abuse and exploitation alongside other forms of violence.
Content Notes: Child sexual abuse; exploitation; family violence
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Say It
War On Women • 2015
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; rape culture; speaking out
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Confronts rape culture and the silencing of survivors.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; rape culture; speaking out
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Silenced
Mersi Stone • 2021
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; silencing; survivor voice
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in Berklee’s sexual violence awareness playlist as a survivor centered song about silencing.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; silencing; survivor voice
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Snow Angel
Reneé Rapp • 2023
SAAM Focus: Drug facilitated sexual assault; trauma; survival
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Rapp has publicly connected the song to being drugged and sexually assaulted and to surviving the aftermath.
Content Notes: Drug facilitated sexual assault; trauma; survival
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Somebody’s Daughter
Breezy Love • 2020
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; human dignity; survivor empathy
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in Berklee’s playlist for reframing survivors as whole people deserving dignity and care.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; human dignity; survivor empathy
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Strawberry Shortcake
Melanie Martinez • 2019
SAAM Focus: Sexualization; victim blaming; body autonomy
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Critiques sexualization and the tendency to blame girls for other people’s behavior.
Content Notes: Sexualization; victim blaming; body autonomy
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Sullen Girl
Fiona Apple • 1996
SAAM Focus: Rape; trauma aftermath
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses numbness, isolation, and trauma after sexual violence.
Content Notes: Rape; trauma aftermath
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Tag, You’re It
Melanie Martinez • 2015
SAAM Focus: Grooming; abduction; predatory violence
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Uses a dark metaphor of predation, coercion, and abduction; useful with strong content warnings.
Content Notes: Grooming; abduction; predatory violence
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Teacher’s Pet
Melanie Martinez • 2019
SAAM Focus: Grooming; teacher student abuse; statutory sexual abuse
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Addresses an inappropriate sexual relationship between a teacher and a student.
Content Notes: Grooming; teacher student abuse; statutory sexual abuse
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →The Boiler
Rhoda Dakar & The Special AKA • 1982
SAAM Focus: Rape; assault; trauma
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A harrowing first person depiction of sexual assault; historically significant but highly triggering.
Content Notes: Rape; assault; trauma
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →The Face of God
Camp Cope • 2018
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; disbelief; institutional response
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Centers disbelief and community response after sexual assault.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; disbelief; institutional response
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →the grudge
Olivia Rodrigo • 2023
SAAM Focus: Betrayal; abuse aftermath; anger
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in survivor focused discussions for its expression of betrayal, anger, and difficulty moving forward after harm.
Content Notes: Betrayal; abuse aftermath; anger
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Til It Happens to You
Lady Gaga • 2015
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; survivor isolation; disclosure
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Written for a campus sexual assault documentary and centered on the emotional reality of surviving sexual violence.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; survivor isolation; disclosure
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Touch Me Again
Petrol Girls • 2016
SAAM Focus: Consent; bodily autonomy; nonconsensual contact
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Explicitly demands respect for consent and bodily autonomy after unwanted touching.
Content Notes: Consent; bodily autonomy; nonconsensual contact
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →True Colours
Becky Hill feat. Self Esteem • 2024
SAAM Focus: Sexual assault; disbelief; survivor disclosure
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
An explicit first person account of sexual assault by a trusted person and not being believed.
Content Notes: Sexual assault; disbelief; survivor disclosure
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Warrior
Demi Lovato • 2013
SAAM Focus: Survival; trauma; abuse recovery
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Often used by survivors as a song of surviving harm and reclaiming strength.
Content Notes: Survival; trauma; abuse recovery
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Watering
Big Thief • 2017
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; bodily trauma; survivor perspective
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
A visceral song often discussed in relation to sexual violence and bodily trauma.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; bodily trauma; survivor perspective
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →What’s Love About
Bella Dimichino • 2021
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; healthy relationships; consent
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in Berklee’s playlist as a reflection on harmful sexual and relationship dynamics.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; healthy relationships; consent
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →you were mine
Esha Tewari • 2024
SAAM Focus: Sexual violence; trauma; survivor perspective
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Included in recent survivor oriented song lists for its treatment of sexual harm and aftermath.
Content Notes: Sexual violence; trauma; survivor perspective
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →Your Power
Billie Eilish • 2021
SAAM Focus: Grooming; age and power imbalance; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Directly addresses sexual violence, exploitation, disclosure, or trauma.
Examines the abuse of power and exploitation in relationships involving major age and power differences.
Content Notes: Grooming; age and power imbalance; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Use with content warning
Listen / Learn More →66 ENTRIES
Healing + Empowerment
Songs centered on resilience, rebuilding, strength, survivor support, and reclaiming voice.
Be Okay
Lauren Daigle • 2023
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope and reassurance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Beautiful
Christina Aguilera • 2002
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self worth and dignity
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Born This Way
Lady Gaga • 2011
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Identity, dignity, and self acceptance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Brave
Sara Bareilles • 2013
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Finding one’s voice and speaking up
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Break My Soul
Beyoncé • 2022
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Reclaiming energy and boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Brighter Day
Michael Franti & Spearhead • 2022
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope and optimism
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Changes
Joy Oladokun • 2021
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Growth, transition, and resilience
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Confident
Demi Lovato • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Confidence and reclaiming power
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Fear
Blue October • 2014
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Working through fear and regaining control
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Fight Song
Rachel Platten • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Personal strength and persistence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Fighter
Christina Aguilera • 2002
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Strength after mistreatment
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Firework
Katy Perry • 2010
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self worth and inner strength
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Flares
The Script • 2014
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope during isolation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Flowers
Miley Cyrus • 2023
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self care and independence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Free Woman
Lady Gaga • 2020
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Reclaiming identity and freedom after sexual trauma
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Freedom
Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar • 2016
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Liberation, agency, and resilience
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Girl on Fire
Alicia Keys • 2012
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Strength and possibility
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Good as Hell
Lizzo • 2016
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self care and confidence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Good Day
Nappy Roots • 2008
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Joy and positive coping
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Guts
Leith Ross • 2023
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Courage and emotional honesty
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Heal
Tom Odell • 2013
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Healing and emotional release
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Help I’m Alive
Metric • 2009
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Staying present and alive through fear
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles • 1969
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope after a dark period
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Hold My Hand
Lady Gaga • 2022
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Support and accompaniment through distress
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Hold On
Wilson Phillips • 1990
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Endurance through difficult periods
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I Am Woman
Emmy Meli • 2021
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Confidence and self affirmation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I Am Woman
Helen Reddy • 1971
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Women’s empowerment and resilience
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor • 1978
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Classic survival and self possession anthem
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Iconic
SkyDxddy • 2023
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Survivor identification and empowerment; preview explicit content
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I’ll Be There
Jess Glynne • 2018
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Support and not facing hardship alone
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I’ll Stand by You
The Pretenders • 1994
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Support and accompaniment
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →I’m Alive
Michael Franti & Spearhead • 2013
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Life affirmation and resilience
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Keep Going
Faith and Freedom • 2024
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Perseverance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Listen
Beyoncé • 2006
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Finding voice and self direction
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →More Than Enough
Sarah Reeves • 2020
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self worth and reassurance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Open My Door
Alice Phoebe Lou • 2021
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Safety, openness, and healing
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Paralyzed
Against the Current • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Feeling stuck after trauma and trying to move forward
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Perfect
P!nk • 2010
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self acceptance and worth
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Praying
Kesha • 2017
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Healing, release, and moving forward after abuse
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Rainbow
Kesha • 2017
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Healing and hope after darkness
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Rescue
Lauren Daigle • 2018
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Feeling seen and supported
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Rise
Katy Perry • 2016
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Persistence and recovery
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Rise Up
Andra Day • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Resilience and mutual support
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Roar
Katy Perry • 2013
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Finding voice and confidence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Scars to Your Beautiful
Alessia Cara • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self worth and body acceptance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →See a Victory
Elevation Worship • 2019
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope and perseverance
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Shake It Out
Florence + the Machine • 2011
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Letting go of burdens and moving forward
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →She Used to Be Mine
Sara Bareilles • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self compassion and reconnecting with identity
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Skyscraper
Demi Lovato • 2011
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Surviving pain and rebuilding
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Stand by You
Rachel Platten • 2015
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Support, solidarity, and staying beside someone
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Step by Step
Whitney Houston • 1996
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Moving forward gradually
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)
Kelly Clarkson • 2011
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Resilience and independence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Superwoman
Alicia Keys • 2007
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Strength while acknowledging vulnerability
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Survivor
Destiny’s Child • 2001
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Strength and survival after adversity
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Teach Your Children
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young • 1970
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Care, community, and intergenerational support
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →The Climb
Miley Cyrus • 2009
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Persistence through setbacks
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →True Colors
Cyndi Lauper • 1986
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Acceptance and being seen as one’s authentic self
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Try
P!nk • 2012
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Continuing after hurt
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Unstoppable
Sia • 2016
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Strength and confidence
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield • 2004
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Agency and imagining a future beyond trauma
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Ushers of a New World
Santigold • 2025
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Hope, change, and new beginnings
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Walk Me Home
P!nk • 2019
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Asking for support and connection
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Waves
Snow Tha Product • 2016
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Resilience and emotional survival
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →Who Says
Selena Gomez & the Scene • 2011
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Self worth and rejecting criticism
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me
Cher • 2010
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Persistence and refusing to be defined by harm
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →You’re Not Alone
Allison Russell feat. Brandi Carlile • 2022
SAAM Focus: Healing; resilience; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Selected by survivor serving organizations or trauma informed resources as supportive music for healing and empowerment.
This is not necessarily a song written about sexual assault. It is included because survivor communities or trauma informed resources have identified it as supportive.
Content Notes: Community, connection, and survivor solidarity
Public SAAM Use: Recommended; preview for audience and setting
Listen / Learn More →21 ENTRIES
Consent + Prevention
Music useful for conversations about consent, boundaries, bodily autonomy, harassment, prevention, and healthy sexual scripts.
Boys Will Be Boys
Dua Lipa • 2020
SAAM Focus: Harassment; rape culture; prevention
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Critiques normalization of harassment and the burden placed on girls to stay safe.
Content Notes: Harassment; rape culture; prevention
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →Can’t Hold Us Down
Christina Aguilera feat. Lil’ Kim • 2002
SAAM Focus: Sexism; sexual double standards; victim blaming context
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Challenges sexual double standards and gendered judgment.
Content Notes: Sexism; sexual double standards; victim blaming context
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with context
Listen / Learn More →Consent
ASJ • 2026
SAAM Focus: Consent; sexual communication
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
A 2026 track explicitly titled around consent; preview full content before program use.
Content Notes: Consent; sexual communication
Public SAAM Use: Preview before public use
Listen / Learn More →Fall in Line
Christina Aguilera feat. Demi Lovato • 2018
SAAM Focus: Gendered power; exploitation; autonomy
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Addresses pressure on girls and women to conform, be silent, and accept exploitation.
Content Notes: Gendered power; exploitation; autonomy
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →Invitation
Ashnikko feat. Kodie Shane • 2017
SAAM Focus: Sexual harassment; entitlement; consent
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Pushes back on sexual entitlement and the assumption that appearance or attention equals invitation.
Content Notes: Sexual harassment; entitlement; consent
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with context
Listen / Learn More →I’m the Boss of My Body
Netflix Jr. • 2023
SAAM Focus: Body safety; child consent; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Child friendly body autonomy and consent education.
Content Notes: Body safety; child consent; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended for children and caregivers
Listen / Learn More →Maybe Doesn’t Mean Yes
AMAZE • 2020
SAAM Focus: Affirmative consent; youth education; ambiguity
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Educational music video teaching that uncertainty or ambiguity is not affirmative consent.
Content Notes: Affirmative consent; youth education; ambiguity
Public SAAM Use: Recommended for youth education
Listen / Learn More →Mother’s Daughter
Miley Cyrus • 2019
SAAM Focus: Bodily autonomy; sexual agency; empowerment
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Celebrates bodily autonomy and control over one’s own choices.
Content Notes: Bodily autonomy; sexual agency; empowerment
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with clean edit if needed
Listen / Learn More →NO
Meghan Trainor • 2016
SAAM Focus: Boundaries; sexual harassment; refusal
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Clear boundary setting and refusal language useful for conversations about respecting no.
Content Notes: Boundaries; sexual harassment; refusal
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →No Means No
Alexa Curtis • 2024
SAAM Focus: Consent; victim blaming; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Directly reinforces that refusal must be respected and rejects victim blaming.
Content Notes: Consent; victim blaming; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →No Means No
Blaithin • 2018
SAAM Focus: Consent; abuse of power; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Direct consent message emphasizing that no is a complete answer.
Content Notes: Consent; abuse of power; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →No Means No
Sonny Southon • 2020
SAAM Focus: Consent; boundaries; respect
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Written as a message about respecting boundaries and refusal.
Content Notes: Consent; boundaries; respect
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →No Means No
Akili and Me • 2025
SAAM Focus: Child consent; body safety; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Child friendly song about respecting no and bodily boundaries.
Content Notes: Child consent; body safety; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended for children and caregivers
Listen / Learn More →None of Your Business
Salt-N-Pepa • 1993
SAAM Focus: Sexual autonomy; slut shaming; judgment
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Rejects sexual double standards and policing of women’s choices.
Content Notes: Sexual autonomy; slut shaming; judgment
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with context
Listen / Learn More →Not All Men
Morgan St. Jean • 2021
SAAM Focus: Consent; harassment; rape culture
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
A prevention oriented song about the constant calculations women make around sexual safety.
Content Notes: Consent; harassment; rape culture
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with context
Listen / Learn More →Quiet
MILCK • 2017
SAAM Focus: Survivor voice; harassment; speaking out
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
An empowerment anthem strongly associated with speaking out against harassment and abuse.
Content Notes: Survivor voice; harassment; speaking out
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →Respect
Aretha Franklin • 1967
SAAM Focus: Respect; autonomy; healthy relationships
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
A foundational popular song for discussing respect and mutuality.
Content Notes: Respect; autonomy; healthy relationships
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →U + Ur Hand
P!nk • 2006
SAAM Focus: Boundaries; unwanted attention; refusal
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Rejects unwanted sexual attention and reinforces personal boundaries.
Content Notes: Boundaries; unwanted attention; refusal
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with context
Listen / Learn More →Yes and No Consent Song
Tawnee Kendall Kids • 2024
SAAM Focus: Child consent; body safety; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Children’s consent education focused on yes, no, and body boundaries.
Content Notes: Child consent; body safety; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended for children and caregivers
Listen / Learn More →Yes or No: A Song About Consent
Cheeky Monkey Club • 2022
SAAM Focus: Child consent; body safety; communication
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Educational song introducing consent language for children.
Content Notes: Child consent; body safety; communication
Public SAAM Use: Recommended for children and caregivers
Listen / Learn More →You Don’t Own Me
Lesley Gore • 1963
SAAM Focus: Bodily autonomy; control; boundaries
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Classic declaration of autonomy and rejection of possessiveness.
Content Notes: Bodily autonomy; control; boundaries
Public SAAM Use: Recommended
Listen / Learn More →12 ENTRIES
Human Trafficking + Sexual Exploitation
Songs and advocacy music connected to trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and survivor awareness.
BLAST (Black Leaders Against Sex Trafficking)
Donna Theresa • 2025
SAAM Focus: Sex trafficking; community prevention; Black survivors
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
A 2025 awareness single explicitly opposing sex trafficking.
Content Notes: Sex trafficking; community prevention; Black survivors
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Human Trafficking
Figden • 2024
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
A track explicitly focused on human trafficking awareness.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Human Trafficking
Jvyfromthe203 feat. Neno Banks • 2023
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Explicitly titled human trafficking awareness track.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Human Trafficking
Steve Sabo • 2022
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Explicitly titled human trafficking awareness track.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Illegal Exploitation
Marta Wiley • 2011
SAAM Focus: Exploitation; trafficking; human rights
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Addresses illegal exploitation within a broader anti exploitation album.
Content Notes: Exploitation; trafficking; human rights
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →It’s Mother’s Day
Various artists / Sisters of Vengeance project • 2025
SAAM Focus: Child sex trafficking; trafficking prevention; survivor empowerment
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Released as an anti trafficking anthem supporting mothers and survivors, with a focus on child sex trafficking.
Content Notes: Child sex trafficking; trafficking prevention; survivor empowerment
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Love Is Louder
Karmin • 2012
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation; prevention
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Included on an anti trafficking compilation as an awareness and empowerment track.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation; prevention
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →One Light at a Time
Sammy Chand & Hoodini • 2012
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Included on an anti trafficking compilation created to raise awareness and support response efforts.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation; survivor support
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Sex Trafficking
Marta Wiley • 2011
SAAM Focus: Sex trafficking; exploitation
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Explicit anti trafficking themed track.
Content Notes: Sex trafficking; exploitation
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Sex Trafficking Victims Speak
Janelle Rae Moore • 2024
SAAM Focus: Sex trafficking; survivor voices
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Explicitly framed around sex trafficking victims speaking and being heard.
Content Notes: Sex trafficking; survivor voices
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →This Is to Mother You
Sinéad O’Connor & Mary J. Blige • 2007
SAAM Focus: Child sex trafficking; sexual exploitation; survivor support
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Recorded in support of Girls Are Not For Sale and child trafficking awareness.
Content Notes: Child sex trafficking; sexual exploitation; survivor support
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →Twenty Seven Million
LZ7 & Matt Redman • 2012
SAAM Focus: Human trafficking; exploitation; awareness
Connection to SAAM: Addresses trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, or anti trafficking advocacy.
Anti trafficking awareness song tied to campaigns highlighting the scale of modern slavery.
Content Notes: Human trafficking; exploitation; awareness
Public SAAM Use: Recommended with trafficking content note
Listen / Learn More →2 ENTRIES
Media Literacy + Critical Analysis
Selections included for examining harmful cultural messages, sexualization, victim blaming, or rape culture.
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Various artists • 1944
SAAM Focus: Consent ambiguity; coercion debates; media literacy
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Useful for examining how cultural context and ambiguous refusal are interpreted in popular music.
Content Notes: Consent ambiguity; coercion debates; media literacy
Public SAAM Use: Education / media literacy only
Listen / Learn More →Blurred Lines
Robin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell • 2013
SAAM Focus: Rape myths; ambiguous consent; media literacy
Connection to SAAM: Supports prevention education, consent literacy, bodily autonomy, or critical analysis of sexual scripts.
Included only for critical analysis of consent messaging and rape myths in popular music.
Content Notes: Rape myths; ambiguous consent; media literacy
Public SAAM Use: Education / media literacy only
Listen / Learn More →USING MUSIC FOR SAAM
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- Use a content warning when appropriate
- Give participants permission to opt out
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