Theme
Songs about loneliness
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Daft Punk & Julian Casablancas
Instant Crush
A half-remembered relationship turned into a sleek, vocoded confession about needing a friend you already know you've lost
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Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
A breakup song delivered as calm prophecy, where the woman walking away tells the man he'll only understand what he lost once the storm passes
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I.O.I
Suddenly
A late-night ballad about the way an ex-love ambushes you the moment you lie down, no matter how long ago you decided to move on
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Drake
Drake, Qendresa - Slap The City
A Toronto rap star tries to convince himself, and a sharp-tongued woman he's circling, that he's ready to stop sleeping with the whole city and settle into something real
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Bebe Rexha & Faithless
New Religion
A dancefloor conversion story, where the club replaces the chapel and the bassline becomes a kind of grace
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Redoor
Forever Has Always Been
A quiet Korean indie ballad about accepting that love was never permanent, and asking memory, not the lover, to stay
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AKMU
Paradise of Rumors
A weary traveler is invited toward a rumored paradise that can only be reached by leaving the city behind
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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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Summer Walker
Girls Need Love
A woman states plainly that she wants sex and tenderness on her own terms, refusing the silence that's usually expected of her
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Mitski
Nobody
A disco-bright confession of loneliness so total it loops the word itself into a chant, asking not for love but for the bare proof that another person is there
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Alex Warren
FEVER DREAM
A man whose heart was nearly shut for business gets reopened by a stranger, and the rush is so disorienting he can't tell infatuation from hallucination
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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