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  • Hot Disc: Unrequited love songs

    by Sarah Nicole Prickett

    There’s a certain sound and fury that belongs to women scorned: the bitter, yearning, whisper-and-shout chorus all barbed with deceptively sweet melodies. It’s the unrequited love song, the crown jewel in any grown-up pop star’s tiara. Who would Toni Braxton be (er, have been?) without “Un-Break My Heart”? Could we forgive Kelly Clarkson’s baseball-mom style if it weren’t for “Since U Been Gone”?

    There’s been a good string of these gems lately—as Passion Pit would have it, “tears like diamonds”—and I should’ve started blogging them weeks ago. But the merit of such heart-strung-out ballads is their repeatability. The unrequited love song takes time. Here, three recent favourites:

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