Why popular music is obsessed with stalking their ex, according to research by Lark Player
SÃO PAULO , Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Breakup has always been a theme of song lyrics. But since social networks changed the dynamics of breakups, the song also started to reflect the new times of suffering: verses about spying on an ex’s publications, and about being spied on, are recurring among the most played songs on the Lark Player app, the third most downloaded app in Brazil in the music/audio category in 2021 according to data.ai .
The song “Para de Me Assistir” , by Mari Fernandez , brings a message to someone from the past: “I won’t block you or silence you / (…) Stop watching me / Stop following me.” The lyrics of “Molhando o Volante” , by Jorge & Mateus , show someone who is keeping an eye on the very lively posts of an ex on the networks, to the point of making conjectures: “Behind Stories, you’re wetting the steering wheel / Crying a lot” .
But, after all, what makes us check an ex’s publications? Or posting something on the networks just so that this ex sees the post? Psychoanalyst, researcher and university professor Ana Suy , who recently released the book A Gente Mira no Amor e Hits na Solidão (Paidós), explains: “A relationship does not end as soon as two people stop meeting or talking. to talk to that person, but in our fantasy we still continue to relate to them. Social networks tend to give even more consistency to these fantasies, as they allow for a continuity of interactions” .
At the end of the day, if suffering for love has always been a strong theme in popular music, it is because the public identifies with the accounts of suffered love. But love doesn’t have to rhyme with pain, as Ana Suy explains : “The love experience that finds joy invites us to be more creative, to find other rhymes for love.”
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