Break-up songs are so overrated. I understand that it is hurtful to love someone with your all, only to separate. And finding someone new is hard and it would feel tiresome to love a new person again. 

I also know that it can happen to anyone and everyone. To me, you, your siblings, neighbors, even celebrities who sing about it in their songs. It's nice to feel that even those on top understand the feeling and the struggles of moving on from that love, beautiful or abusive. But it has become an over-used trope.

How over-used? Think of the billionaire romance stories where the male lead is always a wealthy, ruthless and unstoppable CEO or Prince or Vampire/Devil's son while the female lead is always poor, meek, humble and defenseless who was fired by her employers or mistreated by her family and friends. Inside those stories, the male lead has a girlfriend that he doesn't love and the female lead has this male lover she is supposed to be with but ends up choosing the male lead, even though he was mean, narcissistic and awful towards her.

We already know how it begins and how it will end.

The same with break-up songs. How do you expect to move on with your lives when you have to sing your break-up songs over and over again. The listeners should be tired. They cried. Yes. And they pick up the pieces, not wallowing in the lyrics forever. The ones that are most annoying are the ones that sing of how they can't live without their boyfriends/girlfriends by their sides. What of the ones that would rather murder their boyfriends/girlfriends and be in hell with other sinners or in jail without criminals than to live and move on after their lovers break-up with them. For those words to become lyrics mean that the boyfriends/girlfriends had to leave for their sanity and safety.

What about the ones that will sing about them cheating on their lovers and still be singing that it was a mistake only to watch their music video showing that they will still make the mistake again and there is nothing you can do but accept them like that?

Or the ones that will sing about every little break-up they had, whether real or imaginary.

Or the ones that will make their big debut about relationship break-ups. It is no longer original, just a used up, milked dry trope.

Maybe it's comforting to you. Maybe it helped you to move on. But to me, it is annoying. There are other important life struggles a singer can sing about and people will relate to you. 

But please, break-up songs are so overrated.