Theme
Songs about loneliness
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Summer Walker
Girls Need Love
A woman states plainly that she wants sex and tenderness on her own terms, refusing the silence that's usually expected of her
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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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Alex Warren
FEVER DREAM
A man whose heart was nearly shut for business gets reopened by a stranger, and the rush is so disorienting he can't tell infatuation from hallucination
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The Smiths
How Soon Is Now?
A song about being too shy to be loved, in a world that keeps telling you love is just one nightclub away