12 Songs About Falling In Love With A Friend
Friendships are one of the biggest joys in life since it’s basically having someone who accepts you for who you are. Sometimes a deep friendship from the opposite sex can lead to feelings developing and this can become a challenge if the same feelings aren’t shared. If you are in such a situation here are some songs that you can relate to.
1. Thomass Rhett – Marry Me
The song was able to peak at number 1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. It talks about a story of a guy witnessing the friend he is in love with wanting to get married to someone else. Rhett says the song is his ‘What If” song whereby he looks at an alternate reality where Lauren and he dated and broke up forever and almost got married to other people.
It is part of the album Life Changes (2017).
2. Conell Cruise – Not Just Friends
3. Ally Barron – Just Friends
The song is about a girl who is longing for her friend to like her back the way she feels about him. However, he is with another girl and all she can do is just watch. She is still willing to be there for him in whatever he needs even if it ends up hurting her.
4. Peachy – Falling For U
The song is about a girl who falls in love with her friend. However, at first, she doesn’t realize that she is in love. When she did, she became afraid to reveal her feelings so she just kept them a secret.
5. REO Speedwagon – Can’t Fight This Feeling
Lead singer Kevin, revealed that the song was really about his inability to have the courage to express himself. He stated:
“What the song is about was about my inability to have the courage to express myself. I was brought up in an Irish-Catholic family, and you were taught to always keep a bright face, always act like everything was OK, even if maybe everything on the inside wasn’t so OK. So that’s something I’ve struggled with, and over the years have gotten better at. At that time, the only way I knew to express those feelings was to write songs about them. I’ve learned over the years that it works better to talk to people! You can actually become closer to other human beings when you are vulnerable and express yourself and are free to tell the truth and to be honest and to be up front with your feelings. It does work. Back in those days, the best that I could do was write a song about it.”
6. Marshmello & Anne Marie – Friends
The song is mainly about friend-zoning someone and Anne Marie sings about her experience warding off unwanted romantic advances from a friend. In an interview, Anne Marie stated:
“I think this is the friend-zone anthem because I don’t think there’s been any other songs like this. I don’t know if I’ve heard this, like this blatant in a song before. Like if you’re trying to put someone in the friend zone, you can send them this song. And then everything will be sweet. That’s why I feel like it’s the friend-zone anthem.”
7. Taylor Swift – Teardrops On My Guitar
The song is about how Taylor Swift was in love with her classmate Drew Hardwick but he didn’t like her the same way. The two were good friends in such that Drew would often ask her for advice and date ideas for his girlfriend.
8. Jason Mraz feat Meghan Trainor – More Than Friends
9. RaVaughn – Best Friend
The song is off her debut album Love Always which was released back in 2012. She sings to a friend whom she is in love with asking him why he can’t see that she has feelings for him and every time she kisses his girlfriend in front of her she feels hurt. She has seen him date many other girls and he always came to complain to her whenever things went wrong.
RaVaughn wonders if she was ever an option for her friend or whether it ever crossed his mind to date her. She gets the chills every time they hang out and is now tired of sitting on the sidelines.
10. Mariah Carey – I’ve Been Thinking About You
The track is from her third studio album Music Box which was released back in 1993 and describes how she fell in love with a friend and can’t stop thinking about him. She didn’t expect it to happen and claims it just happened suddenly. The type of partner she was searching for was right in front of her all along.
11. Maddie & Tae – Friend’s Don’t
The song is generally about falling in love with one of your friends. In an interview at the Bobby Bones Show, they stated that the inspiration came from Maddie’s sister.
“My little sister, she called me and was telling me this whole situation with this guy. And there are just certain things that friends do not do. And I’m like: ‘Girl, that guy is so into you.’ I wondered if I could put this into a song.”
12. Doja Cat – Say So
The track got popular after listeners started sharing it on TikTok by uploading videos of themselves dancing to it. It peaked at #5 on the Hot 100 hence becoming her first top 5 hit on the chart.
Doja sings about wanting her friend to stop beating around the bush and confess their love to her. She encourages him not to be shy but instead to just get what he wants.