Do you ever get the urge to sit and listen to the most heart-wrenching music with your headphones on full blast?
If you said no then you’re probably just lying to yourself.
Music has such an incredible emotional influence over us that sometimes it can be hard to grasp its impact.
It’s everywhere we go and every aspect of our lives, from the people we meet to the experiences we have growing up.
It can trigger the release of dopamine, a feel-good neurotransmitter, leading to positive emotions like happiness and excitement, or evoke sadness and melancholy depending on the melody and lyrics.
The thing with heartbreaking music is that we tend to listen to it at any time or place in our lives.
You don’t sit in your room when you’re having the worst day of your life and play an upbeat song that you can dance to.
However, even if we are at our peak and the happiest we have ever been, we are still able to sit in a car and belt out the most gut-wrenching lyrics we’ve ever heard.
There are so many artists who always seem to hit the right spots with the music they write in heartbreak.
We have witnessed so many artists build their careers on the pain they have experienced and the way they can turn it into something beautiful for the world to connect to.
Taylor Swift has always been majorly known for writing “too many breakup songs.”
Bruno Mars has had some of his biggest songs come from the pits of heartbreak, which people still love and listen to.
We can see people online making jokes asking for someone to break the man’s heart, just to get another song or two out there.
As well as others such as SZA, Billie Eilish, Chappel Roan, Noah Kahan, The Weekend, etc.
There are so many on the list that it’s hard to name them all, but those are some very recent artists who capture heartbreak so beautifully.
However, breakup songs or albums can differ in the direction the music takes.
We have many to choose from ranging from angry breakup albums to loving breakup albums with a lot of heartfelt songs inside of them.
A recent album that has stood very prominently was Kansas Anymore by ROLE MODEL.
The album was entirely built from his split with Emma Chamberlain, as the two were in a public relationship together.
The entire album is an ode to the love they had for each other and it is almost like we can almost try to get an understanding of his perspective of not only their relationship and the breakup.
He wrote “Frances” titled after Emma Frances Chamberlain.
In the song he is trying to understand what went wrong and trying to put the pieces together.
He expresses the gratitude he holds, having that time with her.
“At the end of the day, I’m just happy, I could say she was mine.”
In the album, he expresses, the way that Chamberlain molded him the person that he is today and the person he became writing the album.
He ends the album off with the track, “Something, Somehow, Someday.”
In which he expresses a longing for a chance to be with her at the right time.
He holds the hope that they will eventually be something, despite of what has transpired between them, at some point in time.
It is a beautiful dedication.
Through him and many other artists, we are able to witness the way artists are able to take these painful experiences that everyone knows and understands the feeling of all too well and turn them into something amazingly unqiue.
