Theme
Songs about loneliness
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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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