Break Up Song: Difference between revisions

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One thing that writers of [[Silly Love Songs]] don't like to mention is that love usually ''doesn't'' last forever. People break up all the time, and when someone writes a song about it, it's called a [[Break Up Song]]. Although not as omnipresent as [[Silly Love Songs]], if you turn on a radio station and listen for a while, there's a good chance that you'll hear a [[Break Up Song]] or two mixed in with the endless stream of [[Silly Love Songs]] you hear. Many times it emerges from [[Creator Breakdown|the songwriter coming from a breakup himself.]]

One thing that writers of [[Silly Love Songs]] don't like to mention is that love usually ''doesn't'' last forever. People break up all the time, and when someone writes a song about it, it's called a '''Break Up Song'''. Although not as omnipresent as [[Silly Love Songs]], if you turn on a radio station and listen for a while, there's a good chance that you'll hear a '''Break Up Song''' or two mixed in with the endless stream of [[Silly Love Songs]] you hear. Many times it emerges from [[Creator Breakdown|the songwriter coming from a breakup himself.]]

Breakups inspire all different kinds of emotions in people, so there's a lot of variety among Breakup Songs. Songs written from the perspective of someone who has been dumped tend to be different from songs written from the perspective of the person doing the dumping. Please sort examples by the general category they fit into.

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=== Needing sorting: ===

=== Needing sorting ===

* [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] - pretty much the whole of the ''Sea Change'' album.

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* [[ABBA]] - "The Winner Takes It All", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "One of Us", "When All Is Said And Done", and likely many other ones, too.

* [[Rainbow (band)|Rainbow]] - "Since You've Been Gone" (actually by Russ Ballard, this is also a case of [[Covered Up]]).

** Presumably not to be confused with the [[Weird Al]] parody [[Break Up Song]] of the same title

** Presumably not to be confused with the [[Weird Al]] parody Break Up Song of the same title

* [[The Moody Blues]] - "Go Now"

* Napoleon XIV - "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haa" (a parody, naturally. {{spoiler|It was his dog that broke up with him.}})

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* The [[Theme Song]] to ''[[Dear John]]''

* The Academy Is... - "Everything We Had"

* ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'' has an unfinished [[Break Up Song]] he wrote after his girlfriend cheated on him the night before their wedding.

* ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'' has an unfinished Break Up Song he wrote after his girlfriend cheated on him the night before their wedding.

* Neil Sedaka - "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"

* Annie Lennox - "Walking On Broken Glass"

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== Warning others about the ex ==

* [[Cee Lo Green]]'s "Fuck You"~~-- which~~ also has some "I Want You Back" elements.

* [[Cee Lo Green]]'s "Fuck You"—which also has some "I Want You Back" elements.

* Dion - "Runaround Sue"

* [[Carrie Underwood]] - "Cowboy Casanova", "Good Girl"