18 Songs About Not Loving Someone Anymore
Sometimes love lasts forever and other times it just dies off along the way. Some people may choose to hang on and not give up but others would rather just walk away from it all. If you are in such a situation where you are no longer in love with your partner, here is a playlist to try out:
1. Usher – Let It Burn
In the song Usher sings about how his love was coming to an end and he feels like he should move on since trying to solve the problem may not change anything. He feels like he is hurting in the relationship and this is making him unhappy.
The song is from the album Confessions and was able to reach the top spot on various charts around the world such as the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand.
2. Chris Brown – Say Goodbye
Chris tries to find the optimal time to break up with a girl since he doesn’t have feelings for her anymore. He tries to assure the girl that she isn’t the problem but instead, he says he is the problem and just wants to ascertain what he really wants in a relationship. If he doesn’t make this move, he will just detach himself emotionally from the relationship and start acting differently. This would make her hate him.
The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.
3. The Chainsmokers – Call You Mine
The song is about a young, fading relationship where there is uncertainty between both partners as to whether there is a future in that relationship.
4. James Bay – Let It Go
This track is mainly about young love that ultimately went wrong. The relationship started feeling forced hence a breakup was ultimately suggested. James Bay reminisces about the good times they had when they were in a relationship till the present when the love has faded. He realizes that it’s delusional to try and keep the relationship going because it’s too difficult and stressful.
5. Post Malone – Circles
The song references how he would rather keep the failing relationship going even if it wasn’t mentally healthy for both of them. He uses the term ‘running in circles’ to mean they keep repeating the same actions without any change. The song is part of the album Hollywood’s Bleeding (2019) and debuted at #7 on the Hot 100 then peaked at #1.
6. Maroon 5 – Cold
The song mainly talks about how to deal with relationships and breakups. He starts off by pointing out that he feels as though his partner has been cold to him and he doesn’t understand why. She acts like they are not together and this is messing up with his mind.
7. Maroon 5 – This Love
The song was inspired by lead vocalist Adam Levine’s breakup and he stated it was a really emotionally trying period in his life.
This song was just written in the most emotionally trying time in my life. I was in a relationship that was ending, but I was really excited on the other end because the band was about to go make the record and I was ecstatic to go in the studio. She was literally leaving town within days of me writing the lyrics to ‘This Love,’ so I was in prime emotional condition to write a song with that kind of conflict.
It was able to win “Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal” in the 2006 Grammy Awards.
8. Usher – Moving Mountains
The song is part of the album Looking 4 Myself (2012). Usher sings about a relationship that has reached its peak and is now at a turning point. He describes it as “going nowhere fast” to mean that nothing good is coming of the relationship. Neither of them is willing to give up their own independence so instead of moving forward, they decide to just give up. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Usher had this to say about the track:
It’s about a relationship that was cut short because I was unwilling to move to the next level. A lot of times, it’s about sex first if there’s not a deeper connection. So you reach that climax and then it’s like, ‘Man, let’s just separate.’
9. Halsey – Colors
This track is about falling out of love with someone because they changed too much as a person. It is speculated that it touches on Halsey’s relationship with 1975’s frontman Matty Healy. The description of his character suggests that his draining lifestyle has created a void in his life thus giving him a dark mysterious vibe. He is described as blue to symbolize that he is sad, unbalanced and lost in trying to understand where the emptiness is coming from.
Speaking to VEVO, Halsey had this to say about the bridge of the track, “It’s about a person who gets affected by their partner in a relationship, and then their partner leaves them because of the person that they’ve become when, you know, the other person made them that way.”
10. Keri Hilson – Energy
This was Keri Hilson’s debut single back in 2008 and is part of her debut studio album In A Perfect World. Speaking to MTV, she explained this about the words of the song:
This song goes from good love to bad love. You know, you kind of get drained of your energy after a while. You’ve become spent when it doesn’t work out with the person you’re in love with or you’re in a relationship with someone who doesn’t do the things you do for them.
11. The Pussycatdolls – I Hate This Part
The song is part of their second album Doll Domination. Generally, it talks about the conversation before a breakup. Nicole feels like she can’t take being in the relationship any longer since the love between them is slipping through their fingers. She doesn’t want to try anymore and is now finding a way to tell him goodbye.
12. Toni Braxton & Trey Songz – Yesterday
Toni Braxton sings about being done with her boyfriend after seeing his true colors. She tried not to judge him but he kept doing the wrong things and that is when she saw the real him. No matter what excuse he came up with she knew he had been unfaithful, evidenced by the other woman’s perfume. She doesn’t want to listen to anything he wants to tell her in an effort to salvage the relationship and would rather move on.
13. James Morrison – Broken Strings
James Morrison likens the relationship to a broken string that one can’t play on anymore. He feels broken by her and can’t feel anything. He keeps trying to convince himself that there is still a spark but he knows deep down it has already burnt out.
He uses the comparison of running back into a burning house when there is nothing left to save or when you try to catch the last train when it is already on its way.
14. Sugarland feat Taylor Swift – Babe
Many believed the track is about Jake Gyllenhaal, who was one of Taylor’s exes. She wrote it together with Pat Monahan and gave it to Sugarland to record. The singer is angry that her partner was unfaithful to her and she goes ahead to declare that they aren’t getting through this rough patch in their relationship but will instead end it.
15. Alessia Cara – Out Of Love
Alessia was inspired by a friend’s breakup and ended up being the first song she wrote from someone else’s perspective. In her breakdown of the album, she explained that asking the question ‘when did you fall out of love with me?’ is going to be more painful than anything. It may not solve anything but at least it will give you some peace of mind.
16. Taylor Swift – Midnight Rain
Taylor sings about ending a relationship since it seems they want different things in the relationship and different expectations. Pain has been used to mean pursuing new dreams and embarking on a new journey while her partner doesn’t really want to change things the way they are and prefers a more comfortable status quo.
17. Taylor Swift – It’s Time To Go
On the track, Taylor depicts situations where relationships have turned sour and consequently ended. In the first verse, she describes a friendship that failed after betrayal from a friend whom she considered her ‘twin’. This is most likely referencing her friendship with model Karlie Kloss. In the second verse, she talks about being at a job for 20 years and the promotion is given to the boss’ son. She also mentioned her parents who divorced in 2011. They had tried to stay together for their kids but this just broke their hearts more.
In the final verse, she sings about her relationship with Big Machine Records, the record label she was first signed to as a teenager. After she left the label, the owner didn’t give Taylor a chance to own her masters but instead sold them to Scooter Braun.
18. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
The track is from Billie’s sophomore album. According to a clip from the documentary The World’s a Little Blurry, Billie said this about the song, “The whole song is just more like nothing even specific that they did, you’re just not happy being with them. Can’t even explain it.”
The song is about her relationship with her former boyfriend Brandon Adams. She wasn’t happy and didn’t want the same things he wanted. This led to a lack of effort.