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Your Little Grief Playlist
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items Fellow grievers: if you also take 15 minutes a day to cry it out in the car, the shower, or while hugging a cat, this is for your soundtrack. (Also I almost named it How I Met Your Blubber. Because you know 😭)
When the first few chords start, I get a lump in my throat every time 🥺
Dreaming with a Broken Heart by John Mayer on Apple Music
Vocals dripping soul. Lyrics dropping deeply painful truths. And a minimalist arrangement led by the most Prince-sounding guitar solo since Prince.
Hold On by H.E.R. on Apple Music
An 80s flavored, soulful, piano-led, live recording of a singer who knows how to deliver a breakup song. It was also the soundtrack to Alex P. Keaton‘s famous breakup on Family Ties.
At This Moment by Billy Vera & The Beaters on Apple Music
Alice. Grieving her mom. On Shrinking.
I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers on Apple Music
If you listen to nothing else on this list, do yourself a favor: put this song on your best headphones or speakers and fall into it for just a few minutes. It’s unspeakably beautiful.
Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy on Apple Music
Nobody could ever sing this song like Donny. Heartbreak just came out of his extraordinary voice on a soul level. I’ve gotten lost in it for hours on end.
A Song for You by Donny Hathaway on Apple Music
“Tore my shirt to stop you bleedin.. But nothing ever stops you leavin” gets me every single time.
when the party's over by Billie Eilish on Apple Music
I prefer these 60 seconds over the studio version because WOW. Just her and a piano and raw lyrics about a deep unrequited love that will never die.
“Still…” by Sophia James
Raw, mostly instrumental (a guitar played with a violin bow) gorgeousness that hurts so good. The singer is literally singing nonwords. Saw these guys in concert and I’ve never seen so many grown men crying in public in my life.
Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Rós on Apple Music
It’s painful yet also sounds like the warm sun breaking through huge billowing clouds on the first beautiful day of spring.
Treasure by Sampha on Apple Music
A song written to make someone feel loved after a devastating loss. It’s been covered a million times and is always astoundingly beautiful
Fix You by Coldplay on Apple Music