Theme
Songs about new love
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Ariana Grande
The Way (feat. Mac Miller)
A giddy first-blush love song about the rush of being newly, unembarrassedly crazy about someone
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Benson Boone
Beautiful Things
A prayer of gratitude that curdles into panic, sung by someone who finally has a good life and cannot stop bracing for it to disappear
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Car, the garden
My whole world
A quiet love song about the moment you realise someone has become the entire shape of your inner life, and you ask them to hold that weight even if you're wrong about it
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Ed Sheeran
Shivers
A giddy, all-night infatuation song about wanting every minute with someone whose physical pull feels chemical
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Ed Sheeran
How Would You Feel (Paean)
A nervous declaration of love phrased as a question, written for the quiet moment before someone says the words out loud for the first time
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Ariana Grande
safety net (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
The vertigo of falling for someone new when you've already made peace with being alone, and choosing to fall anyway