If we had to choose a song to represent every individual event in our lives, what sort of compilation soundtrack would we end up with? Music plays a powerful role in affecting our emotions. A song can remind us of certain time and set us straight back, happy or sad.
Music is also a powerful tool to get us through trying times, and what’s more trying than when you’re face down in a chocolate cake, crying your eyes out because your heart feels like it has fell out of your chest… We’ve all been there.
Here are 10 songs that take you through every stage of a breakup.
1 – Denial
Prince plays the ‘I can’t understand it’ role really well in this classic… How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore? Lost their phone, obviously.
2 – Clingy & Confused
This Wedding Singer humdinger is a perfect example of that moment when you’re just about to fall over the edge. I hope you’re glad with what you’ve done to me. I lay in bed all day long feeling melancholy… Somebody Kill Me. Ah, but sure you don’t really mean it.
You’re losing your mind… and he’s reaping all the benefits.
3 – In A Dark Place
Bonnie Raitt transports us to that dark, dark place where things just seem as if they’ll never get better because… I Can’t Make You Love Me.
4 – You’ll Pay, Ya Pr*ck
Carrie Underwood is a force to be reckoned with and she feels our pain in this anthem of revenge. Maybe next time he’ll think… Before He Cheats.
5 – Emotional Wreck
Take a look at me now… Cue the tears followed swiftly by the air drumming. Against All Odds, Phil Collins knows an emotional wreck when he sees one.
6 – The Clue Is In The Chorus
I hate you so much right now, Ahhhh… We couldn’t have put it better ourselves, Kelis. Caught Out There.
7 – Boo-Frickin-Hoo
Justin Timberlake tells it like it is. Do us a favour lads, get the Kleenex out will you… Cry Me A River.
8 – Fair Enough, Ya Boll*cks
Johnny Cash & June Carter have learned to just accept the facts and so have you… It Ain’t Me Babe; no, no, no, it ain’t me you’re looking for.
9 – G’luck & F*ck Ya
Kelly Clarkson sums it up in this track. In our best William Wallace (Braveheart) impression, FREEDOM… Since You Been Gone.
10 – Your Loss, A*hole!
Ah classic Beyoncé. There is no argument this is the greatest breakup song of all time.
To every woman in the country that is going through or just getting over a heartbreak, blast this female anthem up as loud as you can and sing it out at the top of your lungs and remember, you’re Irreplaceable.
All together girls… To the left, to the left.
