And that's skinny. On "Drew Barrymore," SZA gets all psyched up to see someone at a party, only to find that they showed up with another girl. The song captures the whiplash of butterflies turning to stone in your stomach, as she sings achingly about how sometimes romance and disappointment can feel as linked as hangovers and alcohol. Written by Chris Martin as a tribute to his then-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow's late father , "Fix You" is one of Coldplay's most affecting songs in a discography filled with enough tearjerkers to flood a stadium.
Though the song primarily deals with death and moving on from that kind of loss, its lyrics are easy to graft onto a romance. Back in the early '60s, Diana Ross and The Supremes' three other core vocalists were just teenagers, but they could capture the feeling of a lifetime's worth of heartbreak on records like "Play a Sad Song. Say Anything's "Alive With the Glory of Love" bristles not just with the urgency and desperation of young love, but because of its chilling backdrop.
The song is about the relationship between singer Max Bemis' grandparents, who are Holocaust survivors, and their time hiding from the nazis. The '90s were the golden era of slow jam ballads, and only a few songs captured that crying-in-a-rainstorm melodrama as well as Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart. The song clearly resonated with a lot of jilted listeners, as it was named one of the 20 biggest Hot hits of all time in Yellow Days' George van den Broek was just 17 when he broke through with "Your Hand Holding Mine," but that's hard to guess by the sound of his voice.
Van den Broek has a commanding baritone, often likened to fellow alt outsider King Krule. A quintessential '80s power ballad, what Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for with heart-on-the-sleeve candor.
Long before his reality show renaissance, Bret Michaels was giving his all to this raw chart-topper. Long before he was an A-lister big enough to headline the Super Bowl , The Weeknd was a mysterious figure in the nascent Toronto music scene, writing songs about excess and infidelity that sounded like the aftermath of a post-breakup bender. His first major hit was "Wicked Games," a fiery track about wounded people finding solace in each other and hurting their actual partners in the process.
It's a powerful showcase for The Weeknd's crystalline tenor, which seems to float a thousand feet above the instrumentals muddy guitar and bass. Most somber love songs come from a singular perspective: I'm hurt. I don't love you anymore. I don't want to be alone.
What makes Gotye and Kimbra's "Somebody That I Used to Know" so singular and enduring is that it offers both perspectives on a failed relationship, shifting vantage points in the middle to remind us that even though we may demonize an ex, we're rarely free of blame. And the song clearly resonated with fans, becoming one of the most successful Hot entries ever, going eight-times platinum in the U. Sometimes relationships fall apart all at once, but oftentimes they crumble in slow motion.
A missed phone call here, a late night out with no explanation there. This kind of disintegration is the subject of Whitney's melancholic "Giving Up. A departure from the sunnier sound of their debut album, "Giving Up" still exists in the same country-soul-indie rock universe, with twangy guitars, dusty piano, and singer Julien Ehrlich's signature reedy tenor.
Tyler, the Creator originally wrote it to give to Justin Bieber , later offering it to Rihanna, before ultimately claiming it for himself. It's hard to picture the song with anyone else on lead vocals. When he pleads, "Don't leave, it's my fault," the desperation is palpable. Some sad love songs are grand and sweeping, but Billie Eilish's "when the party's over" cuts in the complete other direction. With hundreds of layers of vocal harmonies and Eilish's trademark hushed tones, the song feels like it's being sung into your ear from two inches away.
There's an almost religious quality to the lead melody and how it's accented by the harmonies, making "when the party's over" into a vigil for a relationship stuck in the liminal space between friends and lovers.
This song brings us into the push-pull of a dysfunctional relationship, one that frequently gets right up to the breaking point without ever crossing that final threshold.
If "Ex-Factor" sounds eerily familiar to younger listeners, it's because Drake sampled it for his huge hit, "Nice For What.
Your Best Life. Good cry guaranteed. This sad, reflective song plays in my yoga class every time we sit in shavasana. It's very relaxing, but also very emotional. The third single from the hit film Bodyguard is right up there in top five songs to sing at the top of your lungs in the shower. You won't be able to tell whether it's tears or water from the shower head cascading down your cheeks, but it doesn't really matter, does it?
Yeah, this is the song you hear in the movies when the good girl doesn't get the guy. Now you're just sitting there wondering what you did to deserve this tragedy. Someone put this in a teen movie where the heroine drives around pondering the "what are we? I hear this continues well into your 30s, so this sort of good guitar music could work for a movie about that too—if Hollywood ever decides to acknowledge women of that age.
You're going to need several boxes of tissues for this one. The 90s mid-tempo jam is about longing for your beloved, but its heartbreak factor multiplies times a million when you realize that it was one of the last songs Selena recorded before her tragic passing in Let's put it this way: When this comes up on shuffle, remove yourself from any group situations or you might frighten someone with a sudden emotional outburst.
How could you not with this epic, chest-cavity-filling track about watching helplessly as someone deals with overwhelming heartache? So beautiful, so emotional, you'll find yourself welling up at the very least. It's Julien Baker, after all. This song is even sadder as an acoustic, which is why we've included this version featuring ol' Mac strumming his guitar while sitting on a tree stump in the woods. Anyone's who ever had to walk away from a toxic relationship for the sake of their own sanity will relate to this song a little too much.
Can a song make you feel shivery? Even though this track is outwardly a love song, you still get hints of past regrets, which—coupled with a massive hook—make for prime wrapped-up-in-a-blanket-burrito-on-the-floor material.
A song so melancholy you'll feel like you're an astronaut who's become untethered from the space station. Cole is a skilled storyteller, and in "Lost Ones," he tells the story of a couple that is forced to confront their respective traumas when they're faced with a major hurdle in their relationship. Taking on the perspective of both the guy and the girl in each verse, the song gradually gets sadder and sadder until you realize that you've been straight weeping for four minutes and 23 seconds.
Romy Madley Croft really goes for the jugular here with no-holds-barred emotion in her vocals. Doesn't hurt slash help that the subject matter is, once again, a relationship that didn't work out. United States. Type keyword s to search.
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She sang through her pain and cried in the shower, clenching the shower walls before hugging herself on the shower floor. What do you do when the one you want to be with no longer wants to be with you?
The soft guitar strums and sparse melody is enough to put you in your feelings, and then you actually listen to the lyrics—Ed sings about meeting a girl who is homeless and addicted to drugs—and then all of a sudden, tearssssss.
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