Theme
Songs about moving on
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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nowimyoung
HEAVEN
A kiss-off anthem about flipping the script on someone who tried to break you, dressed in funeral black and answered with a laugh
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Charlie Puth & Jung Kook
Left and Right
A breakup song about the way an ex's presence keeps reappearing in every direction the narrator turns, no matter how much time, distance, or alcohol he puts between them
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I.O.I
Suddenly
A late-night ballad about the way an ex-love ambushes you the moment you lie down, no matter how long ago you decided to move on
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BIG Naughty
Vancouver
A songwriter discovers, six years on, that he never actually moved past the person who moved to Vancouver, and that everything he writes is still a letter to her
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HANRORO
Landing in Love
A song about reaching the point where you can finally forgive a past self, and the person who hurt you, without pretending it didn't hurt
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Taylor Swift
Opalite
A duet of reassurance in which two people who picked the wrong partners promise each other that the weather has finally changed
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Avril Lavigne
Alone
A kiss-off to a self-absorbed ex who blew his chance and now wants back in, delivered with zero sympathy