{"id":13896,"date":"2015-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancunion.manchestermediagroup.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/top-5-songs-about-break-ups\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T09:00:54","slug":"top-5-songs-about-break-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2015\/02\/12\/top-5-songs-about-break-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Songs&#8230; about break ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. JoJo \u2013 Leave (Get Out)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggWyUEuGcWY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As one hit wonders go, \u2018Leave (Get Out)\u2019 is one of the absolute best. A perfect break up song to show you\u2019re totally over their shit: so much anger! So much emotion! And all from a 13 year old. JoJo\u2019s career might not have lasted long, but it dazzled like a firework with the brightness of the sun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Eamon \u2013 Fuck It (I Don\u2019t Want You Back) \/ Frankee \u2013 F.U.R.B. (Fuck U Right Back)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAhsD9UyVlg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Past generations, you can have your John Travolta &amp; Olivia Newton-John, we don\u2019t want your Nancy &amp; Frank Sinatra. This was the defining (pseudo-)duet of our generation &#8211; and I\u2019m well aware it came out in the same year as Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Jay-Z\u2019s \u2018Crazy In Love\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Justin Timberlake \u2013 Cry Me A River<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DksSPZTZES0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridges were burned, now it\u2019s your turn to cry.\u201d Break-ups are a competition channeling this song ensures you\u2019ll come out on top. I mean, look at Britney and Justin now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Taylor Swift \u2013 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WA4iX5D9Z64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like, ever. The sardonic disdain in the spoken word \u201cfind your peace of mind with some indie record that\u2019s much cooler than mine\u201d is exactly what we want to hear in a break up song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Gotye \u2013 Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8UVNT4wvIGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ok, we\u2019ll afford you a small amount of longing and sadness at the demise of your relationship. But eventually, you\u2019ve got to accept it\u2019s over and move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five songs to help you through heartbreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10596,10597,4145,10598,5042,5298,6634,4468],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13896"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}