Theme
Songs about burnout
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Drake
Prioritizing
A late-career check-in from a rapper who can't tell whether the dread he feels is paranoia, exhaustion, or a generation-wide failure to choose what matters
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Beyoncé
BREAK MY SOUL
A house-music quit-your-job anthem that turns burnout into a dancefloor declaration of self, built on New Orleans bounce and Black queer club tradition