Theme
Songs about revenge
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Olivia Rodrigo
Can’t Catch Me Now (from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)
A murdered girl's ghost promises she will haunt her killer through the landscape itself, turning revenge into weather, wind, and inescapable presence
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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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Pooh Shiesty
FDO
A first-day-out manifesto from a Memphis rapper using nearly five years of federal time as proof of credibility, wealth, and unfinished business
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Taylor Swift
Look What You Made Me Do
A reinvention announcement disguised as a revenge song, in which Swift kills off her old public image and dares her critics to take credit