heartbreak. It's never straightforward; it is never simply one thing. The best heartbreak anthems know this. It's why Taylor Swift's most personal songs made her famous, why Olivia Rodrigo's debut album about a failed teen relationship went interstellar this year, why Adele had me wailing in tandem.
They cut deep with the bitter sting of disappointment; with pride, foolishness and knotty contradictions - of wanting to be the sort of person who bestows future happiness upon their past loves, while also fully being the person who turns up "out of the blue, uninvited" to say, "for me, it isn't over".
There's a reason Adele is the queen of heartbreak anthems, and why her latest album, which she has openly said is about her divorce, is so.
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