Theme
Songs about dissociation
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Harry Styles
Are You Listening Yet?
A dance-floor lecture aimed at a distracted friend who is drowning in comforts, symptoms and slogans while the actual voice in their head goes unheard
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Lady Gaga
Just Dance (feat. Colby O'Donis)
A blackout-drunk club anthem that uses the dance floor as a coping mechanism, telling you to keep moving when everything else, including your keys, your phone and your bearings, is slipping away
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Big Thief
Not
A song that tries to name an unnameable feeling by listing everything it isn't, circling a center that language can't reach