Theme
Songs about survival
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Lil Baby
Grace
A gratitude prayer disguised as a flex, where survival, dead friends, and Rolls-Royce receipts share the same table
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Florence + the Machine
Dog Days Are Over
A song about the violent arrival of happiness and the price you pay to keep up with it
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DaBaby
ROCKSTAR (feat. Roddy Ricch)
A swaggering trap anthem that reframes the rockstar archetype as a Black survivor whose guitar is a Glock and whose stage is the street
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Teddy Swims
The Door
The moment someone finally ends a relationship that was eroding them, and realises the leaving is what keeps them alive