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‘Utterly devastating’: Guardian writers on their favourite breakup songs
For Valentine’s Day, writers have picked the song that best summarises the pain or pleasure of finally saying goodbye to a lover
On the surface a behind-the-scenes look at the most expensive music videos ever produced, the decades-out-of-print trilogy has survived (barely) as an accidental American epic, inadvertently tracing a band’s arc from young and hopeful to fraught and paranoid. It’s an instantly relatable heart-tugger about the knots we try to untangle after the final door is slammed shut, grappling with that horribly jarring process of redefinition (“from lovers to haters to nothing”) and how it’s never ever an easy route through with inescapable, and uncomfortable, little triggers (“I still suppress flashbacks of you and I fucking”) making it all that much maddeningly harder. Solomon lasers in on how deeply unnatural the readjustment can feel and with a sad, haunting verse from Kojey Radical (“Sometimes I pick up the phone but put down the pics on the shelf”), shows that it’s something many of us face without ever really knowing if it was the right thing to do.
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