Break Up Song: Difference between revisions

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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.

Compare [[Anti Love Song]]. Contrast [[Silly Love Songs]].

Compare [[Anti-Love Song]]. Contrast [[Silly Love Songs]].

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* [[Katy Perry (Music)|Katy Perry]]'s "Circle The Drain" is about her breakup with the drug-addicted Travis McCoy.

** And her latest single, "Part of Me", was recorded in the aftermath of the dissolution of her marriage to [[Russell Brand]]. Take a guess on what it's about. Go on!

* Most of [[Fall Out Boy (Music)|Fall Out Boy]]'s earlier material consists of songs that fall into at least one of these categories. Examples include [[Anti Christmas Song|"Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"]], where the singer spitefully tells his ex what she should do for Crhistmas and new Year's, and "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today," where he basically tells her he hates her for breaking up with him for another guy and tells her to "stop burning bridges / and drive off of them / so I can forget about you"

* Most of [[Fall Out Boy (Music)|Fall Out Boy]]'s earlier material consists of songs that fall into at least one of these categories. Examples include [[Anti-Christmas Song|"Yule Shoot Your Eye Out"]], where the singer spitefully tells his ex what she should do for Crhistmas and new Year's, and "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today," where he basically tells her he hates her for breaking up with him for another guy and tells her to "stop burning bridges / and drive off of them / so I can forget about you"

* [[Escape the Fate (Music)|Escape the Fate]]'s "Let It Go" consists of the singer asking himself if he lets his girl go, since she's not his to own, would the emotional scars and trauma she's inflicted go away or remain.

* [[Vanessa Carlton (Music)|Vanessa Carlton]]'s "Carousel" is an unusual example. It's a third-person song advising people who've broken up not to dwell on it and to move on.

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* The Bouncing Souls - "Wish Me Well (You Can Go to Hell)"

* [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]] - "For No One"

* [[Weird Al Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] - "One More Minute". Oddly enough, this is a completely straight example, despite being a Weird Al song; he wrote it to help himself through an ''actual'' breakup.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] - "One More Minute". Oddly enough, this is a completely straight example, despite being a Weird Al song; he wrote it to help himself through an ''actual'' breakup.

** It's not completely straight, since it's set to the tune of a slow dance and the lyrics are turned [[Up to Eleven]]. Weird Al also had "You Don't Love Me Anymore", which is definitely ''not'' a straight example.

** He also did "Since You've Been Gone", which starts out sounding like a straight depressing breakup song (albeit comparing his lovers absence to several outlandishly painful and masochistic acts). This being Weird Al, there's of course a twist at the end.

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** [[Woman Scorned|Despite that it's not a pathetic as it seems.]] As [[Todd in The Shadows|Todd]] said, "It's a song to load ammo too. It's the kind of breakup song that preceeds a serious ass-kicking."

* Alejandro Fernández - "Si Tú No Vuelves," "Pájaro Perdido"

* Basshunter - "Now You're Gone," "All I Ever Wanted," "I Miss You," "Please Don't Go," "Camila" ([[What Song Was This Again|but only the English version]])

* Basshunter - "Now You're Gone," "All I Ever Wanted," "I Miss You," "Please Don't Go," "Camila" ([[What Song Was This Again?|but only the English version]])

* [[Bloc Party (Music)|Bloc Party]] - "Like Eating Glass"

* Boyz II Men - "Please Don't Go," "End of the Road," "On Bended Knee"

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