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Ultimate breakup songs

179 replies

Mushroomride · 20/02/2025 17:54

Which song most conveys the feeling of how you felt after your breakup?

I don’t forgive you - Isabel LaRosa

So satisfying somehow, doesn’t make me sad at all.

Baby, is she really everything you need?
It's crazy, think you love her after just two weeks
You hate me 'cause you know I'm not that easy
I hope she breaks your heart so casually
I don't forgive you
I don't forgive you
I still fucking miss you
But I don't forgive you
Trust me, I'm in every other girl you'll meet
You see that god'll bring you back to me
Baby, I hope you think she'll never leave
And then she'll break your heart so casually
I don't forgive you
I don't forgive you
I still fucking miss you
But I don't forgive you
You drive away
I guess today's the last I am seeing your face
I don't forgive you
I don't forgive you
I still fucking miss you
But I don't forgive you

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namechangelola · 21/02/2025 00:40

@slimshady18 thanks for doing that. Will definitely go onto Spotify later tonight to find it Smile

slimshady18 · 21/02/2025 00:40

If anyone wants to add their songs to the playlist lmk and I'll post a collab link on here

caringcarer · 21/02/2025 01:22

Unbreak.my heart.

Marylou2 · 21/02/2025 03:40

slimshady18 · 21/02/2025 00:36

I've made the playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/5zxkMgaI0mKRSm2d2mR7ym?si=cik0T0jKQ_uavtTm1LAOPg&pi=XIqwaWvSS3iPW

if the link doesn't work, it's titled 'mumsnet heartbreak'. Apologies if I have missed any!

Thanks so much!!!

OnlyHerefortheBiscuits · 21/02/2025 06:29

This says so much about our different personalities on this thread!

Some angry and defiant, internally screaming a cathartic anthem like Alanis M with the drums, loud electric guitars etc

Some of us get desperately nostalgic and wishing for the loss to return like echoey verses of Nothing compares to u

And some are a kind of quiet sadness, that private hurt that you don't show to the world with such a simple quiet song like Tin Man

OnlyHerefortheBiscuits · 21/02/2025 06:35

limeshakers · 20/02/2025 19:42

Love this one!

'if you ever felt one breaking you'd never want a heart'

And then in last verse she trades her heart for his armour 😭😭😭

MrsPerfect12 · 21/02/2025 06:36

I never loved you anyway by the corrs

kitty1993 · 21/02/2025 07:01

Labour by Paris Paloma

PheasantPluckers · 21/02/2025 07:36

FlowerUser · 20/02/2025 19:47

This is the hidden track

Totally agree about The Pierces. Saw them live twice.

Edited

Arh thank you so much!

I saw the Pierces at Koko 😀 I'd definitely see them again if they ever have it another whirl.

PaleBrunette · 21/02/2025 07:53

So many recommendations for Alanis Morissette but I can’t look that up because I hate the artist so much.

Fix you by Coldplay is my go to because, regardless of what we’re all going through, a doctor’s gone through years of training to put us back together again. So grateful that we have people like this in our lives dedicated to healing our pain.

booboo24 · 21/02/2025 08:03

Just Give Me a Reason by Pink.
It came out about a month after my husband suddenly left me totally out the blue. We'd been together since we were 14 and although the answer was obvious, I was so blindsided. I really felt like this song was written for me. I used to belt it out in the car!!!

A few months later, Michael Buble released Its a Beautiful Day, i had found my anger by then and again, the lyrics were perfect.

Even now 12 years on, they're my breakup songs!

booboo24 · 21/02/2025 08:05

@slimshady18 this is fantastic, what a lovely thing to do

Soitis83 · 21/02/2025 08:24

Not sure if it's been said yet but Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own is my go to

UnderHisEeyore · 21/02/2025 08:47

Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason
Only one I go to that I haven't seen listed. Love how the break up songs reflect the general mood of the relationship.

ellebelli · 21/02/2025 10:07

When I spilt with my first boyfriend I sobbed to Always by Bon Jovi.
Later in life Alanis Oughta know, and Christina FIghter where songs I played and sang along to!(girl power and all that)
I always remember I spilt with a long distance boyfriend and he sent me James Blunts Goodbye my lover cd through the post.
It did make me cry 😢

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 21/02/2025 10:08

WeregoingtoIbiza · 20/02/2025 22:07

Shout out to my ex by Little Mix was released as I split with my ex and summed it up perfectly.

Ooo similar for me was No More Sad Songs. I played that alot when I split from my last LTR

Kneeboobs · 21/02/2025 10:19

Yes to all these great songs,a lot on my list
Also
You ruin me - The Veronicas.
Broken Arrow- Pixie Lott
It's all coming back to me now - Celine Dion.

RetroTotty · 21/02/2025 10:31

For You - Judie Tzuke.

HeChokedOnAChorizo · 21/02/2025 11:36

R.E.M - Everybody Hurts

when I could listen to this without crying I knew I was healing

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

sixtyandfabulousofcourse · 21/02/2025 12:14

I've got to go now Toni Childs
No Regrets Walker Brothers
Hands Clean Alanis Morissette
I Should Have Known Better Jim Diamond
Need You Now Lady A

5128gap · 21/02/2025 13:59

I hope you're never happy by Dolly Parton makes me smile for its honesty.

SanctimoniouslyPerformingSoliloquies · 21/02/2025 16:36

@slimshady18 Thank you so much, I have followed!

Thispupsgottofly · 21/02/2025 19:03
Explosions by Ellie Goulding is a great break up song
Bringmeahigherlove · 21/02/2025 19:07

Birdy - Wild Horses

ToffeeForEveryone · 21/02/2025 19:13