![]() ![]() ![]() Cuomo spends the rest of the song trying to convince this woman that he’s perfect for her, despite the fact that he can’t even look her in the eye without trembling. Still, “El Scorcho” is an all-time classic for its amusing specificity from singer Rivers Cuomo: he falls for a half-Japanese girl who’s never heard of Green Day but writes about Madame Butterfly in her diary. Weezer’s sophomore album Pinkerton was full of all sorts of romantic longing, so it makes for some pretty epic crush songs. The list spans all genres throughout the last 50 years, as nominated by Flavorwire staff. So we got to thinking: what songs about longing stick with us after the thrill of the chase turns into something deeper? Which serve as a salve when you find out that your crush isn’t mutual? What about the ones that give you the nerve to try and steal your crush away from someone else? Or how those that capture the thrilling promise of something new?Īll of these oh-so-complicated scenarios are represented here, in our unranked list of the 50 greatest crush songs ever written. But Karen O’s oftentimes sad, solemn songs only represent one side of the experience of having a crush. The lo-fi album definitely captures the pleasure and pain of walking around with your heart wide open, ready to crush and be crushed. They were the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. ![]() “When I was 27, I crushed a lot,” Karen O wrote in a note announcing Crush Songs a few months back. ![]() This week, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O releases her debut solo album, and it happens to have a very specific theme that caught our attention here at Flavorwire HQ: songs about crushes. ![]()
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