I'll take your color TVs, and a banana, if you pleaseAnd I'll put an end to this silly world peace! Fools! While I watch you cower, this is my finest hourBait you on my hook, just like a worm!Before I crush you like a bug, come over here and give me a hugIt gives me ...
“It’s a craving not a crush,” Billie Eilish testifies on this tribute to newly discovered culinary infatuations that served as lead single from her Hit Me Hard and Soft album. The song could’ve easily come off as overly decadent if not for the obvious winking quality of Eilish’s voc...
If you’ve been stricken by obsession with someone far away, you know the answer. With crush psychosis as her muse, Jane falls headfirst into dreams: She wants to be your missing piece, your thinkpiece, your groupie. (No, not you. You.) It’s electric when they’re near, but the ...
Swift takes a backstage introduction to an indie-pop dude she had a crush on and turns it into something that feels like an epic moment at a royal ball. Even if you are a less than A-level romantic, you may still find something enduringly swoony about the way she frames something that...
When she raps, you can feel her claws protracting, muscles tightening in defense against the man coming for her heart. But her sung falsettos bear the ache of someone undone by their own needfulness. When your pussy precedes you, and your past can’t escape you, you don’t always know...
Selena digs into the feeling of not knowing if your crush likes you back, or even notices you. 25. “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” Nina Simone We love the bragging energy of this 1959 hit. 26. “Sea of Love,” Cat Power From the fragile first chords, this song is an invitation...
“Drive,” she offers an intense image of what it looks like when your confidence falters. Cyrus sings about compromising her own desires to appease someone else’s. “I always knew I never wanted this,” she admits, her tone stinging with regret and disbelief. “You acted like you ...
“Lucky” is a specific type of love song, about an infatuation that gives you butterflies. Erika de Casier finds the most thrill in the small details of her crush, like the perfect way their white T-shirt fits. “I felt it in my body likewhoa,” she sings, making that one syllable...
When you're lost in a daydream about your crush or anxious to see your partner, you can listen to songs about kissing. They'll make you crave your man (or woman) even more than you already do. If you're lucky enough to be sitting right next to your partner while you play these ...
"Next To You" is all about feeling better when your significant other is next to you. Little Big Town released this song in 2020, describing how even going through rough patches is a little easier when there's someone doing it with them. "I breathe a little deeper when I'm next to ...