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Songs about infatuation
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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M.Sasuke
Melody
An infatuation song where the beloved's voice, small kindnesses, and everyday phrases start playing in the singer's head like a tune he cannot stop humming
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NewJeans
Attention
A debut single about the small, calculated maneuvers of a crush trying to be noticed without giving herself away
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RESCENE
Pinball
A K-pop metaphor that turns the rush of a new crush into an arcade game you can't stop playing, even as you try to hide that you're playing at all
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NewJeans
OMG (Apple Music Edition)
A giddy declaration of a crush so complete it rewires the singer's sense of self, delivered with the wide-eyed astonishment of someone who cannot quite believe her own luck
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NewJeans
OMG
A giddy declaration of first-love certainty, where the singer keeps being asked about the boy who has quietly become the operating system of her life
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Vinxen
FLYING HIGH WITH U
A love song set on an amusement park pirate ship, where a rapper known for melancholy lets himself sound uncomplicatedly happy for once
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ATEEZ
BAD
A trilingual infatuation song where a K-pop group borrows Latin pop swagger to describe being helplessly floored by a woman who owns every room she walks into
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The Ronettes
Be My Baby
A teenage girl's public, all-in proposition to a boy she just met, sung as if the whole future depends on his answer
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M.Sasuke
GG EZ
A gamer-brained love song about getting emotionally one-shotted by someone whose attention you keep respawning for
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BOYNEXTDOOR
Forever You
A commitment-phobe finally stops bolting and admits that the person he keeps running from is the only home he wants
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Ariana Grande
The Way (feat. Mac Miller)
A giddy first-blush love song about the rush of being newly, unembarrassedly crazy about someone
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Justin Bieber
Confident (feat. Chance The Rapper)
A club-floor crush song about being knocked sideways by a woman whose self-possession is the actual draw
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PinkPantheress
Stateside (with Zara Larsson)
Two pop stars on tour turn a transatlantic crush into a giddy fantasy about chasing an American boy across time zones
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ILLIT
Magnetic
A debut group's bubblegum manifesto for going after a crush without playing games, framed as physics you can't fight
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The Chainsmokers
Roses (feat. ROZES)
A young couple's private retreat from the world, sketched as a sensual, slightly hazy plea to stay locked in the good part forever
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Aerosmith
Pink
A leering, tongue-in-cheek hard-rock love song that uses the color pink as a stand-in for desire, intimacy, and a touch of harmless kink
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Ed Sheeran
Shivers
A giddy, all-night infatuation song about wanting every minute with someone whose physical pull feels chemical
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Alex Warren
FEVER DREAM
A man whose heart was nearly shut for business gets reopened by a stranger, and the rush is so disorienting he can't tell infatuation from hallucination