Grown Woman: Beyoncé's Best Girl Power Anthems

Celebrating the Bey-day with a look at her catalog of hits.

Happy Birthday, Beyoncé! - Beyoncé's had a phenomenal year since her last birthday. She continued to prove she's "more than just his little wife" with her solo world tour, dropped a self-titled album of music videos and made the world bow down to her role as one-half of music's most powerful couple with a joint jaunt with her hubby Jay Z, all the while mommying her beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy.What better way to celebrate all that female empowerment (and another turn around the sun) than with a look back at 10 of Bey's best girl power anthems? Destiny's Child hits included, too, of course. Read on.  –– Sia Tiambi (@tiambi)(Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Entertainment/Getty Images)
"Independent Women," Destiny's Child - "Question: How'd you like this knowledge that I brought/ Braggin' on that cash that he gave you is to front/If you're gonna brag make sure it's your money you flaunt/Depend on no one else to give you what you want," Bey spits melodically for this Charlie's Angels soundtrack cut.(Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music)
"Bootylicious" - When Beyoncé sang "my body is too bootylicious for you...baby," for this 2001 hit, the song's title became the mantra for bodacious body lovers across the globe. However, while Queen Bey helped to mass distribute the word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, credit for the term actually belongs to Snoop Dogg, who first used it in 1992.(Photo: Sony Music)
"Bills, Bills, Bills" - There was much DC slander when this first dropped in 1999. The all-girl group was deemed a bunch of "man-haters" and Yonkers-based rap group Sporty Thievz even spoofed it with "No Bills (Why, Why, Why)." But before that infectious hook, Bey lyrically breaks it down, "At first we started out real cool ... But now, you're getting comfortable/Ain't doing those things you did no more/You're slowly making me pay for things/Your money should be handling." Or, in other words, dude tried to pull the okie-doke and she checked him. Girl power.(Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music)"Me, Myself and I," Beyoncé - Beyoncé smooths it out with this cut about a cheating man who has no problem leaving his three children with her. Instead of taking the emotional abuse, she decides, really, she's her own best friend. (And, in the video, she decides to key his car; kids, don't try that at home.)(Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music)

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"Independent Women," Destiny's Child - "Question: How'd you like this knowledge that I brought/ Braggin' on that cash that he gave you is to front/If you're gonna brag make sure it's your money you flaunt/Depend on no one else to give you what you want," Bey spits melodically for this Charlie's Angels soundtrack cut.(Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music)

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