Theme
Songs about jealousy
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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BIGBANG
Haru Haru (Live)
A breakup song about telling the person you still love to walk on without looking back, and pretending, day by day, that you can bear it
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Kane Brown
Boots (feat. Shania Twain)
A country duet that flips Shania Twain's 1995 hit into a man's reassurance to a suspicious partner that he has nowhere else to be
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M.C the MAX
Don't Be Happy (20th Edition)
A plea disguised as a curse: the singer tells the person who left him not to be happy, because happiness with anyone else would prove the love he still carries was disposable
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Francesca Battistelli
He Will
A breakup confession from the person who broke it, disguised as concern for the ex who moved on
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Alicia Keys
Girlfriend (Krucial Keys Sista Girl UK Video Remix Edit)
A woman tries to talk herself out of jealousy toward the close female friend her boyfriend confides in, and can't quite manage it
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Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb
Think About Us
A dance-floor lament aimed at an ex who has moved on physically, asking whether intimacy with someone new still summons the ghost of the relationship he left
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Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR
Fortworth
A road-weary love letter from tour, where loneliness, jealousy and long-distance silence start to look like indifference even when the feeling is the opposite