Theme
Songs about emotional avoidance
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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SIENNA SPIRO
Great Expectation
A song about preferring the imagined version of a lover to the real one, and knowing that preference is the problem
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Don Toliver
No Idea
A late-night club hookup curdles into the realization that the woman coming home with him is still tangled up in someone else
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Ava Bently
Daddy Issues
A hookup track that keeps admitting the loneliness underneath the swagger, where wanting someone and wanting to send them home are the same impulse