15 tracks that remind all of us your exes – HelloGigglesHelloGiggles

Most of us have had this one track that individuals could not pay attention to for a long time given that it reminds united states of a guy or girl just who broke the heart. Or that tune that makes you laugh contemplating wonderful recollections along with your senior high school recollections decades following separation. Some songs just meets us inside our center of minds and then we are unable to assist but connect it — better or for even worse — to the exes.

In honor of nationwide Ex time, HelloGiggles is getting awesome individual: right here are some of the tunes that remind you (either fondly or not-so-much) of the exes, memories, and heartbreak.

“The Ascent of Stan” by Ben Folds:

“each time my personal twelfth grade lover would drive me to school, he’d shoot this in the auto every single early morning. You understand when you hear a track adequate occasions which you ponder the reason why you ever appreciated it in the first place? Yeah, i obtained sick of this song following the twentieth time reading it, and I heard it about a million occasions afterwards. This Has Been virtually 5 years since we separated, and just today may I tune in to it without half-screaming ‘UGH, NOT THESE TUNE AGAIN.'”

–
Sammy Nickalls
, staff members journalist

“Home” by Phillip Phillips:

“When, I entirely tortured myself in an on-and-off again event with an in depth buddy of mine. When we eventually went BECAUSE OF IT and get collectively ‘forever,’ he made me a slideshow of photographs of us through the years to this tune. Within months, he was with some other person and I also ended up being devastated (once again). Whenever we listen to this track today, some anger bomb detonates in my center for my personal previous self. In so far as I’d want to be good concerning whole experience, I allow that tiny burst of hurt be a reminder never to enable you to treat me personally that way once again.” –

Christina Wolfgram
, movie music producer

“Must’ve Accomplished Something Appropriate” by Relient K:

“the final time I earnestly allocated a track to a relationship was actually this, due to the fact music video involved football, and I also was enthusiastic about a guy to my high school’s team.” –

Kate Lindsay
, staff members journalist

“Kindly Bleed” by Ben Harper & the Innocent crooks:

“I graduated from senior school fifteen years in the past but every time we hear this tune, I ~nonetheless~  think of my highschool boyfriend cheating on me personally. (the guy explained the hickeys on his throat had been bruises from football and that I thought him!) The track is about wondering if person who hurt you provides any humanity internally.

Very

melodramatic.” –

Jessica Wakeman
, news publisher

“Hoy No Quiero Verte Nunca Más” by Franny Glass:

“Despite the actually happy beat, this song concept literally suggests ‘Today, we never ever need to see you again.’ I’ve never ever had a *bad* breakup in the sense that individuals’ve finished up hating each other, therefore, the tune perfectly captures my personal intensive feelings of harm because of the matter-of-fact nature of one’s diverging paths.” –

Quyen Nguyen-Le
, editorial intern

“Good Girl” by Cat Power:

“This tune reminds myself of someone I happened to be with, and now we just weren’t suitable for one another. He treated me personally badly, but we cared about him anyhow, and I don’t like the way it felt.” –

Rosemary Donahue
, assistant editor

“Midnight City” by M83:

“This tune sometimes reminds myself of very first time I kissed my personal boyfriend in college, causing all of the months we spent hanging out with all of our pals afterwards that season, but although we’d a messy separation, it’s still a good memory.”

– Sammy Nickalls

“Whatever Really” by Zak Brown Band:

“This song is actually happy however it can make me sad. Whenever I listen to it I’m straight away in a pick-up using my university sweetheart, operating x-country using this tune blasting. Anytime the line, ‘every time we attempt to tell this lady how I feel referring out ‘i really like you’ played, he would move to the traveler seat and look close to me personally. Nevertheless breaks my personal center.” –

Elena Sheppard
, tradition publisher

“Boy using Coin” by Iron and Wine:

“a rather nice son when helped me two CDs of his favored songs, but he failed to write-down any of the songs’ names or musicians. For a solid season, I was thinking he and that I were truly the only two individuals that had ever heard this tune. Nevertheless makes me personally contemplative and quietly happy.” –

Christina Wolfgram

“Holocene” by Bon Iver

:

“for a few tracks, like this one, I do not realize they generate me think of a connection until they are available on, and I’m transported returning to this individual’s freshman dormitory area where we would sit on our backs and talk while songs played. –

Kate Lindsay

“Cold-shoulder” by Adele:

“this person wasn’t an ex . . . because he’d a girlfriend . . . whom he told me he would break-up with me for. (He don’t. Surprise!) Anytime we notice the lyric ‘once you look at me personally If only I found myself this lady,’ I go right back to becoming 24 and in lust with a person that brought me personally on then tossed me under the bus. –

Jessica Wakeman

“Go-ahead” by Rilo Kiley:

“This merely an usually great separation song, and reminds me of if you are interested in any explanation to go away someone, or perhaps you’re moving some one away and trying to find reasons in order to get these to leave you. It is more about generating excuses for yourself as well as for one another, without taking a look at the genuine problems.” –

Rosemary Donahue

“Get Reduced” by Lil Jon:

“I dropped crazy the very first time for this track in 8th level, dressed in a polo and denim skirt because #fashion and #boys and #puberty.” –

Christina Wolfgram

“Shrug” by Ani Di Franco:

“i am going to love Ani forever. Virtually every track of hers is essential in my experience, but ‘Shrug’ had been the anthem for my personal huge Terrible Breakup in my own Mid-20s. We lived with each other and he started flirting with another woman, then broke up with me personally over the telephone and questioned us to move out of our apartment. It absolutely was ~really~ shitty in which he simply washed his hands of me personally entirely. There is one lyric, ‘why really does each apology noise similar to a shrug’ that encapsulates that separation completely.” –

Jessica Wakeman

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“Child Blue” by Badfinger:

“The song which makes me personally contemplate my personal worst breakup is “child Blue” by Badfinger, given that it symbolized REALLY a conclusion of a period. Like, I got eventually completed most of

Busting Bad

and I had no concept everything I had been expected to carry out using my life today. How could I also binge another tv series after

BB

?? Oh wait. . . this is exactly about a dude? Yeah, I haven’t separated with one among these in sometime but like, the termination of a TV binge is kinda like a breakup I guess. . . ?” –

Rachel Paige
, team publisher

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