"Love Is a Battlefield" was rocker-princess Pat Benatar's highest-charting single, off her 1983 album "Live From Earth." The song is particularly fun for strong, mid-range belters, as it includes big, powerful choruses, but doesn't go too high or too low on the scale. Clocking in at about 5 1/2 minutes, it's relatively long for a pop song, too, with plenty of lyrics between choruses.
"Like a Virgin" is one of Madonna's most famous songs of all time, thanks to its risque subject material and its super-catchy chorus. This is classic Madonna, from her 1985 album of the same name. This is a song for a slightly higher range than the Pat Benatar song, but again, it doesn't require a particularly wide range. It also doesn't involve too many complicated or hard-to-remember lyrics between the unforgettable chorus.
The mega-smash-hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was originally penned by the songwriter Richard Hazard, but was made famous by the unforgettable Cyndi Lauper. In fact, this was her first major successful single as a solo artist, topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and reaching No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. As far as the melody goes, it's the highest-reaching of any of the songs on the list, thanks to Lauper's signature helium-tinged voice.
Joan Jett first reached chart success in the '70s as a member of the teen girl band the Runaways. After the group broke up, though, Jett was the only one to have a successful solo career, and her most famous song to date remains "I Love Rock and Roll." The song is actually a cover; the original was recorded by the Arrows in 1975. Jett's version, however, skyrocketed up the charts in 1981. It also remains a song that's just as appropriate for female voices as male voices, thanks to Jett's deep growl.
Blondie's biggest hit, "Heart of Glass," gets a lot of the attention, but for a real challenge, try the song "Rapture." The song was the final single from the band's fifth studio album, "Autoamerican," released in 1980. It's most significant, though, for its mix of singing and rapping, back then an unusual combination for a female voice. In fact, the video for "Rapture" is credited as the first rap video ever to air on MTV. The song is a fun challenge for female voices because it involves both the easy to sing chorus and verses and the rapid-fire spoken vocal section in the middle.