12 Songs About Getting Over Someone
Breakups come in all forms shapes and sizes such as slow dissolves, out-of-nowhere endings or you just initiating it. Don’t expect to get over it as if nothing happens. Just like any mourning process, it will take some time and work. Below is a list of songs about getting over someone:
1. Adele – Send My Love
This is an upbeat pop track that is from the album 25 which was released in 2015. Adele described the song to Rolling Stone as one of those “I’m f*cking fine so f*ck you” songs. She sings about not caring anymore about a relationship that had ended since they are both grownups hence they should be able to get over an ended relationship.
Adele’s goal for the album was to go into becoming who she is going to be forever. She is shedding all the baggage so that she can move on to the next stage of her life. The pre-chorus of the song emphasizes a sense of closure.
2. Little Mix – Shout Out To My Ex
This is a farewell message to all the ex-boyfriends of Little Mix Members. They offer sarcastic thanks to them for helping transform them into what they are today.
One of the highly publicized breakups was that between group member Perrie Edwards and Zayn Malik. The two had dated for four years before breaking up.
3. Coldplay & Selena Gomez – Let Somebody Go
This is a track from Coldplay’s ninth studio album, Music Of The Spheres. Chris Martin and Selena sing about the sorrow and pain that comes with the loss of a lover. While in their relationships, they thought their love would never end but sadly the opposite happened.
Martin also believes that love doesn’t die when relationships end hence why he sings that his former lover is still within him.
4. Camila Cabello & Ed Sheeran – Bam Bam
The track is Camila’s anthem for moving on and accepting that at some point one can undergo a breakup. Things change and one can’t dwell on that for long. This was after he broke up with fellow musician Shawn Mendes. A month later she sold her Hollywood Hills three-story villa after having lived there for two years. Camila and Shawn first met when they were teenagers.
Camila’s mother influenced the chorus by her saying “Así e’ la vida” which translates to “That’s how life is”. One should let things come and go because that is just how life is.
5. Adele – Someone Like You
The track is from the album, 21 and is one of Adele’s most commercially successful singles. It became her first number-one single in the UK and second in the USA. It was actually the first pure-piano ballad to ever top the Billboard Hot 100. It won the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance back in 2012.
The song was inspired by the broken relationship that inspired most of the album. She had met the love of her life and felt like she will never find anyone like him again. However, they were just not right for each other so they destroyed the relationship too much to be able to go back to it again in the future. She added that their relationship happened by accident and has finally come to terms with her breakup.
6. Adele – Easy On Me
The track marked Adele’s return after a 6-year hiatus from music. It is the lead single in her fourth studio album 30 and was the first song she wrote for the album. At the time of its release, it broke the world record for the most streamed song in 24 hours after garnering 24 million streams.
Adele sings to her son Angelo Adkins asking for his forgiveness for leaving his father Simon Konecki. She explains that she left to pursue her own happiness even though it made her son really unhappy.
7. Kameron Marlow – Giving You Up
The inspiration for the song came from a heartbreak he had suffered. He got a call one night from the girl that did it at a time when they had both kind of moved on. He picked up the call despite thinking that it was a terrible idea. She hinted at missing him and when the conversation ended he said out loud, “I’m giving you up”. The song is targeted at those who have suffered heartbreak.
8. Taylor Swift – It’s Time To Go
This is a bonus track from the album Evermore released in 2021. It talks about situations where the relationship has turned sour hence it’s time to just leave and get over it.
Taylor Swift drew inspiration from her relationship with her former label Big Machine records which turned sour. They had a legal battle for the ownership rights to the masters of her first six studio albums.
9. Daughtry – Over You
Daughtry compares his heart to a house. He thought it was stable but she managed to destroy it and left it in ruins when she broke up with him. However, he is looking at the positive side of the breakup. He is seeing new opportunities that were not there before since his ex was the one holding him back.
10. Mabel – Don’t Call Me Up
Mabel sings about getting over her ex. She claims that after leaving him, he went ahead to ruin the time out with her friends. She decided to fully cut him off and doesn’t want anything to do with him.
The singer stated that she feels like in breakups it is easy to go round and round in circles talking about the same things over and over picking at something until there is nothing to pick at anymore. She got to a point where she was just over it all since there was nothing she was gaining.
11. Dua Lipa – IDGAF
This is the fifth track on Dua Lipa’s self-titled debut album. It is more of a tell-off to her ex who is trying to get back with her by calling her and telling her that he misses her. She tells him that she no longer needs his love since she has cried enough and she has moved on. His apologies have come in too late.
12. Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
The track is the lead single from Dua Lipa’s second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020). She described it as the perfect breakup song about when you finally find your feet and then somebody decides to come back crawling just when you’ve moved on.
Dua Lipa also stated that she chose to put this song out first so that she could close one chapter of her life and start another. It was a new era for her hence a new sound. The song is about moving on and not allowing anyone to get in the way of that.
13. Dua Lipa – New Rules
‘New Rules’ is about moving on from an ex and how you need to keep your distance from them. Dua Lipa lists a number of rules that one should follow so as to achieve this.
Getting over someone can easily result in one falling back into old patterns and ending up with an ex. The song acts as a self-reminder that because you are getting whisked away at the moment doesn’t mean it’s a good idea in the long term.
14. Zara Larsson – Don’t Worry About Me
This is the second single from Zara’s third album Poster Girl (2021). It is generally about not caring about your ex. Zara tells her ex that she wants him to know that she is fine and it’s unfair that after they are done he always tries to get back together whenever she starts feeling fine.
Zara adds that he should worry about himself rather than her and keep doing what he does best which is loving himself. She doesn’t have the space or the time for him.