10 Greatest Anti-Love Songs In Rock Music History
Romance is for the Weak.
No genre of music is going to run short on love songs any time soon. Considering it's probably the most universal emotion when it comes to songwriting, there's always going to be someone trying to tug at that one extra heartstring and make you fall head over heels for their music. But what happens when you start looking at the more sour side of love?
Because all of the characters in these songs...their story doesn't end well. They don't end up getting what they want and are using these songs to help deal with the consequences. Not all of these are necessarily breakup songs though. Some of it might be a matter of having to leave your old life behind, or sometimes just letting life take its course with someone else. It's never an easy decision, but you can see that these characters are all still growing into the people that they want to be, and are going to have to cut people off from their lives and not return any time soon.
Some are more dignified than others though, and these run the gamut from the peaceful breakup to the "who needed you anyway" style of kiss off songs. Even though we all may move on with our lives, we'll always have songs like these to remember what could have been.
10. Gives You Hell - All American Rejects
There's always a lot of raw wounds that come with leaving your significant other behind. As much as it might be for the best that you're not going to be together, you're still going to feel a little bit jaded about what could have been. When you look back on some of these songs though, the feeling of getting a little bit salty every now and again feels pretty fantastic.
Granted, Gives You Hell doesn't necessarily have to be about your significant other 100% of the time. From just the chorus alone, this is the salty song that you can show to anyone who's been bothering you in your life, whether it be your boyfriend being an ass, your boss at work treating you like trash, or pretty much anything in between. The devil is in the details here though, and Tyson Ritter is going in hard on this former friend of his.
In the verses, you can pretty much see how well his own life is going while he sees this guy rotting away back in his hometown. There might be something tragic about not being able to get out of the 9-5 job and not buying the fancy car, but it changes when that was the guy who was talking you down all those years. If anything, your face isn't just a greeting from Hell. It's a reminder of how much of a mistake they made by leaving you behind.