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Songs about flirtation
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Jhené Aiko
So Good (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
A sunlit, confident duet about mutual attraction that treats desire as both holy and a little wicked, with the West Coast as its mood and setting
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NewJeans
Cookie
A flirt song built around a homemade-cookie metaphor: an offer of something addictive and exclusive, dangled with full awareness of the power the offer holds
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Hearts2Hearts
15-LOVE
A flirtation staged as a tennis match, where the thrill lies in keeping the volley going rather than winning the point
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Hearts2Hearts
Secret Recipe
A K-pop confection that turns baking a cake into a metaphor for a girl group's self-assured recipe for charm, chemistry, and getting what they want
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Hearts2Hearts
Lemon Tang
A summer flirtation cast as a lemon drink: the cool, aloof crush turns sweet only once you're mixed together
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Paperboys, Connor Price, Nic D & Alan Ritchson
Hey Heartbreaker
A charm offensive aimed at a woman who keeps slipping away, half-swagger and half-confession from a suitor trying to turn a fling into something lasting
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DJ Khaled
Wild Thoughts (feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller)
A sun-drenched flirtation built on Latin guitar and liquor, where mutual attraction slides past thinking and into pure impulse
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Katy Perry
California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)
A glossy, postcard-perfect commercial for the West Coast fantasy, designed as pop's sunscreen-scented answer to East Coast hip-hop anthems
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ROSÉ & Bruno Mars
APT.
A flirty late-night invitation built around a Korean drinking game, turning the word for 'apartment' into a chant for meeting up and not going home until morning
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Olivia Dean
So Easy (To Fall In Love)
A confident pitch to a hesitant crush, framing the singer as both the fun of a Saturday night and the steadiness of a long future
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HAON
Skrr (feat. GISELLE)
A late-night drive to a lover's apartment, told as a flirtation between confident arrival and guarded reciprocation
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Justin Timberlake
Rock Your Body
A negotiation on the dance floor that barely bothers to disguise itself as anything other than what it is, a pickup