“Tyrone” is named for one of an unnamed deadbeat lover’s numerous deadbeat friends: “Every time we go somewhere,” Badu purrs with lethal authority, “I gotta reach down in my purse / To pay your way and your homeboy’s way and sometimes your cousin’s way.” It is the gender-flipped riposte to Friday’s “Bye, Felicia,” and in fact turned up as a joke in 2000’s Next Friday it “followed me thru my career like an obsessed X boyfriend,” as Badu put it on Instagram in 2017, while shouting out her backup singers, whose sardonic and sublime “Call him!” chant is the third-best moment. The second-best moment on this viciously sultry slow jam, the crown jewel of Erykah Badu’s 1997 album Live, is the stupendous opening line: “I’m gettin’ tired of your shit / You don’t ever buy me nothin’.” The first-best moment is all the women in the crowd immediately shrieking with delight and, one fears, recognition. Most heartbreaking line: “I just want it to be, you and me, like it used to be, baby / But ya don’t know how to act” After all, breakup songs resonate only when you know what it’s like to lose in love. Maybe you’ll gain a greater appreciation for your current relationship. If you’re happily attached, you can still dive in-these are some of the greatest songs ever recorded, and that’s true whether you’re in your feelings or not. So if you’re lonely, fire up our playlist and cry along as you read our thoughts on each entrant. ![]() There was only one rule for the final ranking: just one song per artist was included to avoid Dolly Parton or even Drake from dominating. The list spans several decades and many different moods, but all are rooted in some type of pain. Below, you’ll find our ranking of the 50 greatest breakup songs of all time, as voted on by our staff. And in honor of Valentine’s Day, we decided to dig deep into the genre. We here at The Ringer believe that since heartache comes in many forms, so should the breakup song. On February 11th, 2021, Know Your Meme interviewed Melvin Lawson about the origins of the viral video referenced in the meme, his history with internet culture and more.What makes a song a “breakup song”? Does it have to be empowering, à la “I Will Survive” or most of the songs on Lemonade? Should it be for the lonely, like Carole King’s “It’s Too Late” or Bob Dylan’s “If You See Her, Say Hello”? Does it have to address the breakup in the lyrics? (Taylor Swift has many entrants in this category, and Marvin Gaye penned an entire album about his divorce.) What about songs with a famous backstory, like “Cry Me a River” or any track off of Rumours? 'How Old Is' Google Searches" refers to an exploitable image where a man in tears Googles a person or character, and after searching for the life expectancy of something else sharing the same name, concludes the former is close to the end of their life, which makes the man cry harder. On February 2nd, 2019, YouTube NirvanaPonyGr4m posted a vocoded version of the clip, gaining over 9,000 views in less than a year. The post has gathered over 11,000 views in less than 4 years. On February 12th, 2017, YouTuber Lyqe posted a remix by superposing the video multiple times. Four days later, YouTuber Maurice Spears uploaded another remix (shown below, right) which gathered over 50,000 views. On December 1st, 2016, YouTuber and musician MonoNeon posted a musical parody (shown below, left) reaching over 58,000 views. The post got over 25,700 upvotes (78% upvote ratio) in less than 4 years. ![]() In the next day, YouTuber Zehn 997 did the same and gained over 2.8 million views.Īlso, on December 2nd, a now-deleted Reddit user shared the video in the subrredit r/videos. On December 2nd, YouTube channel nikbistro2 posted the video gathering over 1 million views in less than four years. In the following days, the clip was reuploaded to different social media platforms. On December 3rd, 2016, posted a screenshot of the video from Facebook with of 18.1 million views (screenshot below, right). However, the original video was uploaded by Instagram user hoodnews24u sometime in November 2016. The earliest upload of the video was posted by Facebook user DjTickzzy on November 30th, 2016 with the title "Man starts crying bc his weed is so good □□" (mirror below).
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