Theme
Songs about modern romance
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Drake
Passionfruit
A long-distance relationship dissolving in real time, where wanting someone from far away isn't the same as being able to keep them
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pH-1
Nerdy Love (feat. Yerin Baek)
A self-doubting boyfriend confesses he'll never be the swaggering ideal his girlfriend's friends date, and she answers that she wanted the nerd all along
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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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LEE CHANHYUK
Endangered Love
A bilingual lament that frames monogamous, world-shaking love as a species going extinct, with the singer pleading for someone, anyone, to revive it