From Taylor Swift to Olivia Rodrigo and Alanis Morissette, check out the world's hardest-hitting split-up anthems here.

Patrick Whelan, a Harvard Medical School lecturer who has researched music and the brain, puts some of it down to evolutionary biology. Early mammals relied heavily on hearing to avoid predators, the ...

Ah, Valentine's Day. A time for love and romance, for doing something special with that person you love. It's a magical time. Unless, of course, you've just been through a bad breakup, in which ...

It's a paradox: Love, reciprocated or unrequited, is one of pop music's most enduring subjects—but some of the best love songs ever written are breakup songs. And if you ask us, the best breakup songs ...

When it comes to breakups, you could say the women of country music do it best. Of course some will argue that point, so we'll soften our stance slightly: When it comes to breakups, country music ...

Katy Perry has been front and centre this week, releasing her highly-anticipated new single, bandaids. The song, her first in over a year, is a break up anthem, following the ending of an engagement.

There are songs for when you’re sad and songs for when you’re happy. There are songs for just about every complicated emotion a human being could have, and there’s probably a playlist out there ...