The heartbreaker and the heartbroken—aka the villain and the victim—are often the stock characters in songs about failing relationships. On “Get Well Soon,” Taylor Vick, the Oakland-based folk-pop singer who has performed as Boy Scouts for nearly a decade, chooses instead to look at how...
Jackson Browne (1974):Browne was in his mid 20s when he wrote this melancholic song cycle about crumbling relationships. Songs like "Fountain of Sorrow" and the title track pretty much crowned him as the era's definitive singer-songwriter on the subject, and one of the genre's most influent...
Jackson Browne (1974):Browne was in his mid 20s when he wrote this melancholic song cycle about crumbling relationships. Songs like "Fountain of Sorrow" and the title track pretty much crowned him as the era's definitive singer-songwriter on the subject, and one of the genre's most influent...
Jackson Browne (1974):Browne was in his mid 20s when he wrote this melancholic song cycle about crumbling relationships. Songs like "Fountain of Sorrow" and the title track pretty much crowned him as the era's definitive singer-songwriter on the subject, and one of the genre's most influent...
Many of us enter into relationships blindly. In the process, we can lose the sense of who we are. In this song, Selena Gomez sings about reclaiming the self that has been lost after going through what must have been a toxic relationship. (Check out these songs about deserving better in ...
Also ranks #6 on The Best Dramas About Relationships Between Sisters 106 Cinderella Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters 223 votes Cinderella is a 1997 American romantic musical fantasy telefilm produced by Walt Disney Television. The film stars Brandy, Whitney Houston, Paolo Montalban,...
Like a great many romantics, Al Stewart could recall specific dates relating to the birth, evolution and ultimate demise of his relationships. "Night of the 4th of May" seems to suggest that Stewart and his girlfriend at the time, Mandi, had an open partnership. Regardless, it's clear tha...
We can understand this to be about one of the most interesting relationships Taylor Swift has ever had: her love affair with the court of public opinion. Musically, this sounds like it could be from the “Fearless” era, but only the Swift of 2024 would be bold enough to have written a...
SZA is the poet laureate of love’s excruciating complications, and “Blind” is packed with the kind of searingly uncomfortable truths about damaged relationships that have inhabited an entire generation’s consciousness. Every painful admission of sexual desire, emotional deficiency, and romantic suff...
As the engagement photos crowd Instagram and the wedding invites pile up, it’s hard not to let your mind run wild. Even Maggie Rogers knows the feeling. On her sepia ballad “Don’t Forget Me,” she watches in shock as her friends’ relationships progress. “I’m still tryin’ to cle...