Theme
Songs about self-loathing
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Daniel Caesar
Touching God (feat. Yebba & Blood Orange)
A prayer of bruised faith in which a doubting believer asks why God withholds help, then reaches for grace anyway
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Radiohead
Creep (Acoustic)
A confession of inadequacy directed at someone the singer idealises from a distance, sung by a narrator who cannot believe he deserves to be in the same room
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Billie Eilish
goodbye
A closing-credits collage that stitches one line from every previous track on the album into a single farewell