Theme
Songs about growing up
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Ariana Grande
thank u, next
A breakup song that skips the bitterness, treating each former partner as a lesson and the singer herself as the relationship worth keeping
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![Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97] by Green Day](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music125/v4/a0/16/bf/a016bf34-4050-16d6-778b-9eb5af5e5d4c/093624915690.jpg/600x600bb.jpg)
Green Day
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97]
A bittersweet farewell that frames endings as something to accept and even celebrate, no matter how reluctantly
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Djo
End of Beginning
A farewell to a younger self left behind in Chicago, set off by the strange ache of returning to a place you've outgrown
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Ella Bright
Girl That I Am
A reckoning with years of silence after public scrutiny, and the recognition that surviving it built the person now able to speak
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HYUKOH
Comes and Goes
A song about the dulling repetition of loss, and the quiet recognition that growing up just means rehearsing the same goodbyes