These women are passionate, soft, and fierce—much like their new love songs, below, that you and I both know we have no shame playing on repeat. Enjoy crying to the best love songs of Most of us become better people after an emotional heartbreak, but only one of us creates a hit single about it. I felt that. Blink released Nine in September with Tom DeLonge replacement Matt Skiba, yet the band's music still manages to feels like its original content. Play "Miles High" while you're showering and doing all of the reflecting.
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The year was off to a fast start in the music realm with releases from Lizzo, James Blake, Ariana Grande. But in the months that followed, drops from standouts like Brittany Howard and Summer Walker kept the momentum going. Whether it be about love for yourself, love for a partner, or love for your pals, this is the best has to offer so far. Clairo wails gently through a wall of autotune, desperately pleading for emotional availability, all while knowing her allegiance will lie with the broken relationship regardless.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is best set to music—preferably in the summer with the windows rolled down. In the long list of topics covered by musicians, it's hard to think of one more universal than love, and has already delivered a reliable list of tracks to fall back on, no matter the circumstance. Below are a dozen of this year's finest love tracks—ones that depict something special, no matter if it's about the beginning, ending, or middle of a relationship. Maren Morris slides in with some relationship philosophy, while FKA twigs sheds light on a relationship's final stages. Lizzo, per usual, slays the house down with the vocal punch that is "Cuz I Love You," and for those teens in the room just looking for a romantic ear worm to blast at the pool, Shawn Mendes might have a bop in there as well.
It's a cold, cold world out there. Sometimes it feels like the only thing that can match that heightened feeling of falling in love is a pounding pop song or a swoony ballad. Think Taylor Swift's sappy letter to her "Lover" or Summer Walker and Jhene Aiko's twisted love song about the lengths they're prepared to go to for their significant other. If that's where you're at, here's a list of the best love songs has given us so far. I'll admit that when I read the title of the song and saw that Jhene Aiko was featured, I assumed we'd be getting the version of Monica and Brandy's "The Boy Is Mine" or maybe even a Thelma and Louise -style revenge bop. But what Summer gave us, instead, was a sappy love song in which she and Jhene hurl threats at any woman who tries to come between their respective relationships. Taylor Swift's "Lover" feels like I've taken a step inside the singer's most romantic daydream. It's the cheesy, mushy type of love song that feels appropriate for weddings.
