The Sea Of Heartbreak

NOTE: I had originally written this blog entry over a month ago, and I am just now getting around to publishing it. If it still has an old date on it, that’s why.

So…we did happy love songs. We totally did those. We did them so hard. Let me tell ya. I got on the socials and sang one for y’all…it was a happy time. For all of us.

But that’s only one side, isn’t it?

Facts are, we are just as enthralled with the songs of love lost as we are of the ones of love gained. Perhaps even more so, depending on who you are. Can you imagine navigating adolescence and its accompanying heartaches without the ever-present spectre of popular music to get you through?? Someone else was feeling those feelings, and they were SINGING about them. TO YOU. Maybe not specifically to you, but it sure felt like it. God, the security of knowing we weren’t ALONE in our misery and heartbreak. It meant EVERYTHING to me, and maybe it did to you, too.

I probably said when I wrote the love song blog that the genre has its share of naysayers. True of heartbreak songs, too, I think. But maybe not as many. I think there’s a solid argument that the folks who continually write about their own emotional troubles instigated at the hands of an unrequited love, or at the hands of a former love who has left, are doing an important service for the rest of us. Where would we be if we hadn’t had those songs? And there are people coming of age every day who need songs like that, too. New ones that maybe their parents haven’t heard (let’s just say “A Teenager In Love” by Dion & the Belmonts wasn’t really what I needed when I was 15).

As usual, I’m going to TRY to hop on at least one social media platform (either FB or Insta) this week and play a heartbreak song for you. What is your favorite heartbreak song? What heartbreak song helped get you through the romantic woes of high school? Tell me in the comments or on one of our shared SM platforms.