Theme
Songs about coming of age
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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NCT WISH
BOY MEETS GIRL
A bright, sentimental pop song about the moment two people meet and decide to build a future together, treated as the great treasure hunt of a young life
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Hearts2Hearts
Baby Steps
A song about the wobbly, exhilarating first steps into a new version of yourself, taken alongside someone who says it's okay to fall
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The Cast of High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron
Can I Have This Dance
A duet in which two teenagers use the metaphor of a shared dance to promise that graduation, distance, and adulthood won't undo what they have
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BOYNEXTDOOR
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A reckoning with the gap between the kid eating cheap food in Hyehwa and the twenty-year-old standing under stage lights as one of six
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LOCASH & Parmalee
Let The Country Music Play
A nostalgia roll call for 90s and classic country, framed as a barroom request to keep the old songs spinning
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Olivia Rodrigo
The Rose Song (From "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Season 2)")
A character song about refusing to be reduced to someone else's flattering, flattening image of you