Theme
Songs about isolation
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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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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Taylor Swift
The Fate of Ophelia
A love song that uses Hamlet's drowned Ophelia as the cautionary alternative: rescue from despair by a partner who arrived just before the spiral closed