Taylor Swift’s Life of a Showgirl is more like Life of a Billionaire High School Mean Girl. This should have been a daring, self-aware pop reinvention. Instead, it lands like a lifeless brand exercise – petty, watered-down, and strangely hollow for an artist for made heartbreak cinematic and rebellion feel personal.

Conan Gray’s heart-wrenching album Wishbone leaves listeners with no more tears left to shed. This personal and self-discovering project explores queer discourse, self-anxieties, family trauma, and more.

This album is not something you’d want to hear if you’re one of their exes, that’s for sure. It lets listeners into the messy realities of their breakups in a way that’s too good not to hear.

Love is war. Espionage, Rainbow Kitten Surprise’s Valentine’s Day release, doesn’t whisper sweet nothings — it drags you straight into the battlefield of heartbreak, betrayal, and queer survival.

Lola Young doesn’t write breakup songs — she writes post-mortems.