Theme
Songs about intimacy
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Daniel Caesar
Get You (feat. Kali Uchis)
A quiet marvel at unlikely, lasting love, sung by someone already bracing for the day it becomes a memory
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Calvin Harris & Disciples
How Deep Is Your Love (Chris Lake Remix)
A dancefloor plea to be fully known and fully consumed by another person, phrased as a question the singer keeps asking because she cannot get an answer
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sombr
My Body Isn't Ready
A young man wants intimacy but can't bear to be seen, so he hides from a lover on a summer night that everyone else is out enjoying
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Muse
Undisclosed Desires
A pledge to love someone whose damage and self-protective performance have kept everyone else out
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Vince Staples
Cotton
A duet of offered shelter, where two people take turns asking each other to be the safe room from a world that won't stop howling at the door
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Milky & Mall Grab
Just The Way You Are
A house-music love note that turns devotion into a chant, asking a partner to stay exactly as they are while the beat keeps rolling
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The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
A man begs to be seen as he really is by the one person he loves, even if it costs him everything else
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Zara Larsson
Midnight Sun
A Scandinavian summer love song that uses the polar phenomenon of perpetual daylight as a metaphor for a romance the singer wants to suspend in its peak moment
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The Chainsmokers
Roses (feat. ROZES)
A young couple's private retreat from the world, sketched as a sensual, slightly hazy plea to stay locked in the good part forever