君 is usually said by men isn’t it?
I mentioned not wanting to say boku in my first comment and it isn’t that I believe women have to speak one way, men have to speak another way, etc but for me it’s about ~cultivating a voice~ for myself.
This is vaguely related to the original post…Most of my favorite bands use boku/kimi in their lyrics (and usually ore in interviews) but sometimes a part of a song will be from the perspective of a woman so they use atashi/anata to signal that. Actually it’s from these men that I learned atashi. I had to look it up because of a song. And when I looked it up, there was a discussion about it and most of the responses said it was baby-talk used by women to sound cute but some people disputed that and said the reason it’s looked down upon is because it’s used by women. This is the kind of thing I take note of! Since then I always take note of who says atashi. My favorite female musician, Hako Yamasaki uses it. But anyway, there’s a song that I listened to way before I started learning Japanese so I’ve had an English translation of the lyrics memorized for a long time. Yesterday I realized he says atashi and anata! I thought the song was from his perspective for years.
I’ve heard them quite often in podcasts, actually.