Theme
Songs about devotion
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Taylor Swift
The Fate of Ophelia
A love song that uses Hamlet's drowned Ophelia as the cautionary alternative: rescue from despair by a partner who arrived just before the spiral closed
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Alex Warren
Ordinary
A love song that borrows the language of religion to describe a devotion so total it feels like both worship and surrender