All songs featured in this playlist are performed by the trailblazing women entertainers and movie stars who made my quarantine significantly better—some of them by the staggering sense of camaraderie they inspired in me while reading their biographies, and others by the sublime escapism they provided me when watching their glamorous films. In one way or another, all of the phenomenal women listed here have contributed to keeping me optimistic and further developing my identity. And isn’t that what great artists do when life takes a dark turn? Put these tunes on when you feel like doing your makeup for no reason but to daydream about your own Hollywood biopic.