We’ve all had this 1 track that we couldn’t tune in to for ages as it reminds united states of men or woman which broke all of our cardiovascular system. Or that tune that renders you laugh thinking about great memories along with your senior school thoughts many years following separation. Some songs just meets us inside our center of hearts therefore can’t help but hook it up — better or for worse — to all of our exes.

In honor of nationwide Ex Day, HelloGiggles is getting awesome personal: right here are some of the tracks that remind you (either fondly or not-so-much) of the exes, thoughts, and heartbreak.

“The Ascent of Stan” by Ben Folds:

“Anytime my personal high-school lover would drive us to college, he’d shoot this in his car every early morning. You are aware when you notice a track enough occasions that you ask yourself exactly why you ever before liked it to begin with? Yeah, i acquired fed up with this tune following the 20th time reading it, and we heard it about one million occasions after that. It’s been very nearly five years since we broke up, and just today may I tune in to it without half-screaming ‘UGH, NOT THE SONG AGAIN.'”

–
Sammy Nickalls
, employees copywriter

“Residence” by Phillip Phillips:

“Once, we totally punished myself personally in an on-and-off again affair with a close pal of my own. Whenever we finally decided to GO FOR IT and be collectively ‘forever,’ the guy made me a slideshow of photos people over time for this song. Within a couple of months, he was with someone else and I also was devastated (once more). Whenever we notice this track today, just a little rage bomb detonates in my own cardiovascular system for my personal past self. As much as I’d like to be positive regarding the whole experience, I allow that small rush of injured be a reminder to never allow anyone to treat me that way once again.” –

Christina Wolfgram
, movie manufacturer

“Must’ve Done One Thing Appropriate” by Relient K:

“the very last time we actively assigned a tune to a connection had been this package, because music movie involved soccer, and that I had been obsessed with a child on my high-school’s soccer team.” –

Kate Lindsay
, staff members copywriter

“Please Bleed” by Ben Harper & the simple crooks:

“I graduated from twelfth grade fifteen years ago but whenever we hear this tune, we ~nonetheless~  think of my personal senior high school boyfriend cheating on me personally. (He informed me the hickeys on his neck were bruises from football and that I thought him!) The track is just about wondering in the event that individual that hurt you features any mankind inside the house.

Very

melodramatic.” –

Jessica Wakeman
, development publisher

“Hoy No Quiero Verte Nunca Más” by Franny Glass:

“Despite the truly delighted beat, this track name actually implies ‘Today, we never ever want to see you once again.’ I have never really had a *bad* break-up in the same manner we’ve wound up hating one another, so that the song completely captures my personal intensive thoughts of harm because of the matter-of-fact character of your diverging pathways.” –

Quyen Nguyen-Le
, article intern

“Good Girl” by Cat Power:

“This song reminds me personally of someone I happened to be with, and in addition we just were not suitable for each other. The guy addressed myself badly, but I cared about him in any event, and I also didn’t just like the method it believed.” –

Rosemary Donahue
, assistant editor

“Midnight City” by M83:

“This tune sometimes reminds me in the first time we kissed my personal sweetheart in college, causing all of the several months we invested getting together with our friends afterward that 12 months, but despite the fact that we’d a messy breakup, it is still a fantastic memory space.”

– Sammy Nickalls

“Whatever It Really Is” by Zak Brown Band:

“This track is pleased nonetheless it helps make me personally unfortunate. Whenever I hear it i am immediately in a pick-up with my university boyfriend, driving cross country with this song blasting. Anytime the range, ‘every time we make an effort to tell the lady the way I think it comes out ‘I favor you’ played, he would turn-to the passenger seat and appear close to me personally. Still breaks my center.” –

Elena Sheppard
, tradition editor

“Boy using Coin” by Iron and drink:

“a really nice man once helped me two CDs of his favored music, but he failed to jot down any of the songs’ names or music artists. For a good season, I was thinking the guy and I also were the only two people which had ever heard this song. Nonetheless makes myself contemplative and quietly delighted.” –

Christina Wolfgram

“Holocene” by Bon Iver

:

“For most tracks, similar to this any, Really don’t recognize they make myself think of a connection until they show up on, and I’m transported back once again to this individual’s freshman dorm room in which we would sit on all of our backs and talk while music played. –

Kate Lindsay

“Cold-shoulder” by Adele:

“he wasn’t an ex . . . because he had a girlfriend . . . who he informed me however separation with me for. (the guy didn’t. Shock!) Whenever I hear the lyric ‘Whenever you consider me personally If only I happened to be her,’ I-go right back to getting 24 along with lust with a person that led me on right after which tossed myself under the shuttle. –

Jessica Wakeman

“Proceed” by Rilo Kiley:

“This only a generally speaking fantastic split up song, and reminds me of if you are wanting any explanation to depart somebody, or perhaps you’re pressing somebody out and trying to find an excuse to have these to give you. It’s about generating reasons yourself as well as both, without looking at the real issues.” –

Rosemary Donahue

“Get Reduced” by Lil Jon:

“I fell crazy for the first time to this track in eighth grade, wearing a polo and denim dress because #fashion and #boys and #puberty.” –

Christina Wolfgram

“Shrug” by Ani Di Franco:

“i’ll love Ani permanently. Almost every tune of hers is important in my experience, but ‘Shrug’ was actually the anthem for my huge Terrible Breakup in my own Mid-20s. We lived collectively in which he started flirting with an other woman, then left myself over the telephone and requested me to move out of your apartment. It had been ~actually~ shitty and then he just washed his arms of myself completely. There’s one lyric, ‘why does each apology sound a lot more like a shrug’ that encapsulates that separation completely.” –

Jessica Wakeman

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“Baby Blue” by Badfinger:

“The tune that makes me consider my personal worst separation is “Baby Blue” by Badfinger, given that it symbolized REALLY a conclusion of a period. Like, I’d at long last completed every one of

Busting Negative

and that I didn’t come with idea the thing I had been expected to do with my existence now. Just how may I actually binge another tv show after

BB

?? Oh hold off. . . this really is about a dude? Yeah, We haven’t separated with one of those in a while but like, the end of a TV binge is kinda like a breakup I guess. . . ?” –

Rachel Paige
, employees creator

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