Miley Cyrus’ “Slide Away” and Extra Breakup Songs to Play on Repeat
Miley Cyrus‘ new track got here in like a wrecking ball.
The 26-year-old singer dropped her observe “Slide Away” on Friday. The track got here lower than every week after followers realized about her break up from Liam Hemsworth. After listening to the lyrics, many speculated that the track was concerning the breakup.
As an example, Cyrus croons about studying to let go in one of many verses.
“As soon as upon a time it was made for us/Wakened someday, it had turned to mud,” she belts out. “Child, we had been discovered, however now we’re misplaced/So, it is time to let it go.”
At one other half, she sings about transferring on—noting that they are not 17 anymore. As followers will recall, Cyrus and Hemsworth met as youngsters whereas engaged on the film The Final Tune.
“I am not who I was,” she continues on the observe. “You say that the whole lot modified/You are proper/We’re grown now.”
The duvet artwork for the track reveals an empty bottle and a few tablets floating within the water. Cyrus references these on the observe, too.
“I would like my home within the hills/Don’t desire the whiskey and tablets,” she sings earlier within the tune. “I do not quit simply/However I do not suppose I am down.”
Already added the observe to your playlist? Make a journey down reminiscence lane and look again at different favourite breakup tunes all through the years.
Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Subsequent”
After a fast-paced romance and high-profile break up, Ariana determined to throw all subtly and veiled references out the window for the primary track she launched post-Pete Davidson break-up. Her former fiancé is not the one ex name-checked within the track, with fellow exes Ricky Alvarez, Mac Miller and Massive Sean additionally being named within the empowering anthem.
Earlier than it is launch, Ariana tweeted that the track was “the alternative” of a “diss observe” and she or he wasn’t kidding. “Thank u, subsequent” is all about Ari’s new relationship with herself after studying worthwhile classes from all of her previous romances.
“One taught me love / One taught me endurance / One taught me ache / Now, I am so wonderful / I’ve beloved and I’ve misplaced,” she sings…and now we guess you possibly can’t get that out of your head. Thank u, subsequent single please, Ariana!
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Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”
“However because you been gone…I can breathe for the primary time…”
It is arduous to think about anybody else singing what’s arguably The Voice coach’s greatest track, nevertheless it nearly went to Pink, who turned it down, after which Hilary Duff, who additionally handed, earlier than Clarkson ended up releasing it as the primary single off of her 2004 album, Breakaway. (No, Clarkson did not write the catchy tune, Max Martin and Dr. Luke did.)
“Since U Been Gone” shortly turned the post-breakup reduction anthem for a technology, even making its approach onto MTV’s Laguna Seashore and was lined in Pitch Excellent, with Clarkson additionally taking residence the Grammy for Greatest Feminine Pop Vocal Efficiency for the track.
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Beyoncé’s Lemonade
Come on, how does one decide only one track off of Queen Bey’s iconic 2016 album? Positive, she stayed with Jay-Z, however she held nothing again…exposing his wrongdoings, revealing intimate particulars about their marital struggles, utilizing the album as a diary and a warning concurrently. It’s a murals and a piece of affection and ache and hope, making it way over only a break-up album.
Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River”
Although he is by no means truly mentioned immediately that his 2002 hit is about his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears…it’s very about Britney Spears, with a look-alike even being solid within the music video.
“I have been scorned. I have been pissed off,” he wrote of the inspiration for the anthem in his new ebook, Hindsight: & All of the Issues I Cannot See in Entrance of Me. “I wrote ‘Cry Me a River’ in two hours. I did not plan on writing it.”
The track was a vital and business smash hit for Timberlake, who was establishing himself as a solo artist after N Sync. It labored—the attractive and scornful track received the Grammy for Greatest Pop Male Vocal Efficiency.
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Taylor Swift’s “Expensive John”
Are you aware how arduous it’s to focus on Swift’s greatest breakup track when she is mainly the godmother of breakup songs, understanding precisely how a lot information to tease to show her listeners into detectives? Her albums are her journals and her songs are her relationship guides. However her most blatant one was “Expensive John” off of her 2010 album.
Pattern lyric? “Expensive John, I see all of it, now it was improper / Do not you suppose 19 is just too younger to be performed by your darkish twisted video games, after I beloved you so?”
It was, in fact, about John Mayer, although Swift by no means confirmed it…however Mayer determined to a couple years later, saying that the track “humiliated” him in an interview.
“It made me really feel horrible,” Mayer informed Rolling Stone. “As a result of I did not deserve it. I am fairly good at taking accountability now, and I by no means did something to deserve that. It was a very awful factor for her to do.” He additionally known as it “low-cost songwriting.”
Swift’s response? “How presumptuous!”
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Carrie Underwood’s “Earlier than He Cheats”
Lesson realized from this revenge ballad? Do. Not. Cross. Carrie. Underwood.
Whereas she charmed American Idol viewers together with her sunny disposition and nation crooning, followers had been launched to a brand new entire facet of the singer when she launched “Earlier than He Cheats” and took a Louisville Slugger to each headlights.
The track was as soon as the the best-selling nation track of all-time and received Underwood two Grammys in 2008 (Nation Tune of the Yr and Greatest Feminine Nation Vocal Efficiency). And, extra importantly, it (hopefully) impressed some cheaters to suppose subsequent time earlier than they…nicely, you already know…
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Justin Bieber’s “Love Your self”
Many songs have been born from the rollercoaster relationship that was Jelena, however arguably essentially the most bitter one from Bieber is “Love Your self,” which counsel Justin’s mother Patti Mallette wasn’t Gomez’s largest fan. (“My mama do not such as you—and she or he likes everybody,” he sings within the refrain).
Many believed the track title was a direct reference to Gomez and one in every of her tattoos, which is the Arabic translation of the phrase “Love Your self First” on her again.
Nevertheless, it seems Bieber did not even write this track…Ed Sheeran did!
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Selena Gomez’s “Love Will Bear in mind”
The primary of many songs about her relationship with Bieber, Gomez determined to start out this 2013 single with an precise voicemail from her ex.
“Hey babe, it is me,” Bieber says within the voicemail. “I simply wish to name and inform you that I like you so, so, so, a lot. I simply wished to let you recognize that you’re my princess. You might be worthy of all of the love on this planet. You’re the love of my life.”
On the time, a supply near Bieber informed us he was “blown away” by the observe. 5 extra years of on-and-off relationship confirms that!
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The Weeknd”http://www.eonline.com/”Name Out My Title”
The Weeknd’s (whose actual identify is Abel Tesfaye) hit track in 2017 was all about his failed relationship with Selena Gomez, with obvious references about her kidney transplant, in addition to her reconciliation together with her ex Justin Bieber shortly after their break up.
“Guess I used to be simply one other pit cease ‘Til you made up your thoughts,” The Weeknd sings in the course of the track. Rattling…
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Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez’s “We Do not Speak Anymore”
Shock, one other track alluding to Selena Gomez’s on-and-off romance with Justin Bieber! In 2018, Puth totally admitted that their 2016 duet was about their short-lived romance coming to an finish due to her ex.
“It is a few explicit second in my life, when somebody very near me wished the consideration of anyone else,” he defined to Billboard. “When I discovered that out and we ended it, I might need carried out some shady issues too, and she or he might need requested me, ‘How lengthy has this been happening?'”
He then added, “I do not kiss and inform, however the one approach a track like that may come throughout as actual is that if there’s one thing else happening behind the scenes. And that is what was occurring [with Gomez]. Very short-lived, very small, however very impactful. And it actually messed me up. I am attempting to place this one of the best ways potential: It wasn’t like I used to be the one individual on her thoughts. And I believe I knew that stepping into—what I used to be getting myself into.”
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Drake’s “Marvin’s Room”
The rapper’s 2011 observe is Drake at his emo greatest…and completely capturing the phenomenon of “drunk dialing,” with Drake drunkenly calling an ex from a nightclub. (Mentioned ex allegedly sued him after the observe was launched. Take care, Drake!) Positively one in every of his greatest songs ever.
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Nick Jonas and Miley Cyrus”http://www.eonline.com/”Earlier than the Storm”
It is uncommon couple will get collectively to file a track after their break up, however that is what these two did in 2009 after relationship on and off since assembly at a Disney Channel occasion in 2006.
On the time, Jonas informed MTV Information that the bittersweet ballad was “in all probability one in every of his favourite songs as a result of it has an ideal story to it.” Although it did not initially embrace Cyrus, Jonas thought it might track to file along with his ex and share with their younger followers. #Niley4ever. Curiously sufficient, they carried out the track on stage collectively amidst reconciliation rumors…proper earlier than Cyrus met now-fiance Liam Hemsworth on the set of The Final Tune.
However each Jonas and Cyrus have launched different songs about their break-up(s): Cyrus’ 2008 hit “7 Issues” is all about Jonas, whereas he revealed in 2017 that one of many Jonas Brothers’ 2013 songs “Wedding ceremony Bells” was about Cyrus after she received engaged to Hemsworth.
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Christina Aguilera’s “Fighter”
If this jam hasn’t been in your exercise playlist because it got here out in 2003, you’ve got been dwelling your life improper for over 16 years. Sorry not sorry!
Whereas the singer by no means revealed who the empowering observe was about, she did say on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s after-show Untucked that “he deserved it.”
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Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know”
The. Gold. Customary. Of. Breakup. Songs. Morissette’s 1995 hit taught us hell hath no fury like a proficient songwriter scorned. “You Oughta Know” additionally delivered probably the most epic celeb city legends: It is about Full Home’s Dave Coulier. Uncle Joey, what did you do?!
“There was a whole lot of acquainted stuff as a result of she was writing a whole lot of materials after we had been relationship, so there have been some familiarities all all through [her album] Jagged Little Tablet,” Coulier informed HuffPost Stay in 2014. “The one which received me was, ‘I hate to bug you in the course of dinner.,” he mentioned. “That was as a result of we had already damaged up and she or he had known as—she was dwelling in Canada on the time—she known as, and I mentioned, ‘Hey, I am proper in the course of dinner, can I simply name you proper again?’ I keep in mind that line after I heard ‘You Oughta Know,’ and I simply went…it was like, ‘Uh-oh.'”
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Ed Sheeran’s “Do not”
Like his pal Taylor Swift, Sheeran is superb at delivering some gossipy items in his songs, and “Do not” undoubtedly did. The 2013 track was about his ex Ellie Goulding allegedly dishonest on him with One Course’s Niall Horan whereas on tour, with Sheeran telling Leisure Weekly, “I needed to be as sincere as potential in that track as a result of in any other case what is the f–king level? There’d be no anger or ache in that track if it was simply very candy and good.”
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Pink’s “So What”
Written throughout a separation from her husband Carey Hart in 2008, Pink’s “So What” is a bit petty and a whole lot of enjoyable, with traces like “You are a software” and “I am not gonna pay his lease.”
Pink even received her then-ex to look within the music video, although she did not inform him what the track was about earlier than filming. “He hadn’t heard the track earlier than he confirmed up for the video,” she informed Radio 1. “He is sport, he is aware of how psychotic I’m, he spent six and a half years with me. A yr with me is like canine years.”
After they reconciled in 2009, Pink talked about nonetheless performing the track when she appeared on Ellen in 2009. “It is humorous now!”
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Nick Lachey’s “What’s Left of Me”
The 98 Levels lead singer launched this solo observe in 2006 following his very public divorce from Jessica Simpson, and it in the end turned his most profitable track.
Satirically sufficient, then MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo would tackle the function of Simpson within the music video, with Lachey later happening to marry her in 2011.
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Katy Perry’s “Roar”
Positive, there are extra apparent breakup songs from the American Idol decide, however “Roar” is her most uplifting and got here at a pivotal level within the singer’s life throughout one of many off-periods of her on-and-off romance with John Mayer.
“Roar is a track I wrote as I used to be a bit bit upset,” she as soon as informed Radio 1. “I discovered myself having a break with my boyfriend, who I beloved very a lot and it actually damage my coronary heart. I mentioned to myself, ‘I have to see what’s going on with me and ensure I am all good.’ Once you break up with somebody it is easy to say they’re loopy and suppose it is all them, however, truthfully, perhaps there’s 50% duty in your behalf. It was simply time for me to be sincere with myself.”
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No Doubt’s “Do not Communicate”
Think about being in a band together with your ex? That was a actuality for Gwen Stefani, who wrote a track (alongside together with her brother after which No Doubt co-founder Eric Stefani) in 1996 about her and bassist Tony Kanal‘s breakup. Awkward? Yep! Price it? Duh.
“It is nonetheless bizarre. Even final evening after I sang the track it is nonetheless bizarre,” she mentioned on The Howard Stern Present in 2016. “I simply rolled my eyes and walked away [like] actually? You are still feeling that?”
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