For every relationship we had, we tend to have certain love songs that we dedicate to our love interest or to the relationship at the moment. Unfortunately, I couldn’t remember all that I had with my exes, because well, apparently for me the memory attachment of the songs vanishes as the relationship fades away until it’s as good as gone.
My go-to artists are Taylor Swift and Mac Ayres. Call me basic, but I think it doesn’t matter whether you’d go soul, or pop, or rock, or jazz, what matters the most is the lyrics themselves. And nowadays, we have Olivia Rodrigo, which I think would suit the brokenhearted ones out there. Taylor and Mac spoke both languages, though, so I can just pick which songs to listen to based on my relationship mood tracker.
It’s not like it’s obliged to have our relationship soundtrack, but it just comes naturally. Suddenly somehow, right after I jumped into a new relationship, there goes me creating a playlist in my head (or in Spotify) about the guy. Somehow, my guy has this similar description with other artists’ descriptions in the lyrics. Are we unconsciously looking for validation? That our guy is a normal guy? That what we have is normal? I’m not an artist, though, but somehow lyrics are meant to describe normal and common things people experience in life or this case relationships. I mean well, the most thirst lyrics about sex do not even elaborate the objective’s specific kinks, because somehow it’s just too personal, and probably not the majority of world citizens can relate to it. Songs are written to melodically express ourselves because they’re the fastest thing to interpret and help the unspoken words to be said. I think it’s okay if we can’t say the words that we ought to say because we have songs and there are probably a gazillion of them established in this universe, ready to help you say what you want to say. That’s why we have terms like “breakup songs”, “love songs”, “wedding songs”, and for other occasions that are non-love related. They’re there to validate your feelings and your state of being.
Oh, well, humans… Even when we fall in love, we seek validations.
