Theme
Songs about alienation
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Muse
Plug In Baby
A breakup song dressed as science fiction, in which a lover is traded for a machine that delivers what human intimacy could not
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My Chemical Romance
I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
A friend's confession that performing fineness has finally collapsed, addressed to someone who claimed to understand him but never actually listened
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Radiohead
Creep (Acoustic)
A confession of inadequacy directed at someone the singer idealises from a distance, sung by a narrator who cannot believe he deserves to be in the same room
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The Black Skirts
1:05
A love song that fixes itself to a single stopped moment, 1:05, as a way of refusing the clockwork rhythms of grown-up romance
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Gemfaire
ChatGPT
A wry indie-pop confession about outsourcing intimacy to chatbots, search bars and Amazon when human dating has worn the singer down
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Eiffel 65
Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Gabry Ponte Video Edit]
A Eurodance fable about a man whose entire world is saturated by a single feeling because he has no one to talk to
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The Smiths
How Soon Is Now?
A song about being too shy to be loved, in a world that keeps telling you love is just one nightclub away