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* "Player of Games" by Music/{{Grimes}} is pretty transparently about Creator/ElonMusk.
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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with, Creator/DaveCoulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynolds.

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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with, with Creator/DaveCoulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynolds.
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* Music/RobinThicke's album ''Paula'' is entirely dedicated to his ex-wife Creator/PaulaPatton in an unsuccessful attempt to win her back.
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** "Dear John" about John Mayer

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** "Dear John" about John MayerMusic/JohnMayer
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* Music/{{Pink}}'s "So What" is about her separation with motocross racer Carey Hart, who agreed to appear in the music video. However, P!nk and Hart reconciled and called off the divorce afterward.
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** "You're Losing Me" about Creator/JoeAlwyn
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* "I Don't Wanna Fight" by Music/TinaTurner, from the ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt'' soundtrack, reflecting on her divorce from her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]] and band leader, Ike Turner.

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* "I Don't Wanna Fight" by Music/TinaTurner, from the ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt'' ''Film/WhatsLoveGotToDoWithIt1993'' soundtrack, reflecting on her divorce from her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]] and band leader, Ike Turner.
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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with ''Series/FullHouse'' star, Dave Coulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynolds.
** Alanis Morissette is only one of several artists to write breakup songs about Dave. He apparently made it a habit to date young artists and then walk away, leaving them to write bitter songs about him. Bob Saget allegedly advised him to stop dating young musicians or everyone in America would have heard half a dozen songs about how shitty he was as a boyfriend.
* "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" by Music/LennyKravitz about his struggling marriage with Creator/LisaBonet, is a plea to not break up, but it ultimately proves unsuccessful.

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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with ''Series/FullHouse'' star, Dave Coulier.with, Creator/DaveCoulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynolds.
** Alanis Morissette is only one of several artists to write breakup songs about Dave.Coulier. He apparently made it a habit to date young artists and then walk away, leaving them to write bitter songs about him. Bob Saget ''Series/FullHouse'' co-star Creator/BobSaget allegedly advised him to stop dating young musicians musicians, or everyone in America would have heard half a dozen songs about how shitty he was as a boyfriend.
* "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" by Music/LennyKravitz about his struggling marriage with Creator/LisaBonet, Creator/LisaBonet is a plea to not break up, but it ultimately proves unsuccessful.



* "Love Don't Cost a Thing" by Music/JenniferLopez is about [[Music/SeanCombs Puff Daddy]] and his attempts to [[GoldDigger buy her nice things]] to make up for his constant adultery.

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* "Love Don't Cost a Thing" by Music/JenniferLopez is about [[Music/SeanCombs Puff Daddy]] and his attempts to [[GoldDigger [[ApologyGift buy her nice things]] to make up for his constant adultery.

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* Music/MileyCyrus' "Midnight Sky" is about her separation with Creator/LiamHemsworth.

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* Music/MileyCyrus' "Midnight Sky" is about her separation with Creator/LiamHemsworth. She later released "Flowers" on Liam's birthday.
* Music/{{Shakira}}'s "BZRP Music Sessions #53" is about footballer Gerard Piqué complete with puns about his and the other woman's names.
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** "Everytime" by Spears is her AnswerSong.

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** "Everytime" by Spears is her AnswerSong. Perhaps the most surprising thing about "Everytime" is that rather than biting back at Timberlake, she takes responsibility for hurting him and the song is a heartfelt apology.
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* Music/MileyCyrus' "Midnight Sky" is about her separation with Creator/LiamHemsworth.

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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with ''Series/FullHouse'' star, Dave Coulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynolds

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* "You Oughta Know" by Music/AlanisMorissette about her breakup with ''Series/FullHouse'' star, Dave Coulier. "Torch" is about Creator/RyanReynoldsCreator/RyanReynolds.
** Alanis Morissette is only one of several artists to write breakup songs about Dave. He apparently made it a habit to date young artists and then walk away, leaving them to write bitter songs about him. Bob Saget allegedly advised him to stop dating young musicians or everyone in America would have heard half a dozen songs about how shitty he was as a boyfriend.

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* Mercilessly parodied on ''Series/SpittingImage'', where Music/PhilCollins' tendency to turn his marital woes into chart-topping singles was sent up in the piss-take song ''I'm So Lonely''.

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* Mercilessly parodied on ''Series/SpittingImage'', where Music/PhilCollins' tendency to turn his marital woes into chart-topping singles was sent up in the piss-take song ''I'm "I'm So Lonely''. Lonely".
* Music/SineadOConnor stated that "Thank You For Hearing Me" was based on her breakup with Music/PeterGabriel, with whom she had an on-and-off relationship in the early '90s. According to O'Connor, she ended the relationship out of dissatisfaction towards Gabriel's lack of commitment (given that he had recently divorced his first wife and, per his own word, was undergoing therapy to deal with it).

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* Music/KanyeWest's "Heartless" and "Runaway" are about Amber Rose. The two were in a fairly brief but tumultuous relationship between his break-up with his ex-fiancee Alexis Phifer and his marriage to Creator/KimKardashian.

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"Heartless" and "Runaway" are about Amber Rose. The two were in a fairly brief but tumultuous relationship between his break-up with his ex-fiancee Alexis Phifer and his marriage to Creator/KimKardashian.
** The extremely controversial "Eazy" addresses Ye's divorce from Kim, who he still lusts after ("we havin' the best divorce ever!"), and his loathing of her new beau Creator/PeteDavidson:
--->God saved me from that crash just so I can beat Pete Davidson's ass!!
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* Music/PaulSimon wrote "Heart and Bones" and "She Moves On" about his tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife Creator/CarrieFisher. The two maintained a close relationship even after their divorce, and Fisher wrote in her autobiography, "If you can get Paul Simon to write a song about you, do it. Because he is so brilliant about it."

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* Music/PaulSimon wrote "Heart and Bones" and "She Moves On" about his tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife Creator/CarrieFisher. The two maintained a close relationship even after their divorce, and Fisher wrote in her autobiography, "If you can get Paul Simon to write a song about you, do it. Because he is so brilliant about at it."
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* Music/PaulSimon wrote "Heart and Bones" and "She Moves On" about his tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife Creator/CarrieFisher. The two maintained a close relationship even after their divorce, and Fisher wrote in her autobiography, "If you can get Paul Simon to write a song about you, do it. Because he is so brilliant about it."
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* "Romeo and Juliet" by Music/DireStraits, a song in which frontman Mark Knopfler recalls his failed romantic relationship with fellow musician Holly Vincent, after he found out about an interview in which she described her time with him in a very blunt and offhanded way. Hence the line "now you just say, 'oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him.'"

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* [[Music/MakingMovies "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet"]] by Music/DireStraits, a song in which frontman Mark Knopfler recalls his failed romantic relationship with fellow musician Holly Vincent, after he found out about an interview in which she described her time with him in a very blunt and offhanded way. Hence the line "now you just say, 'oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him.'"
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* "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" by Music/LennyKravitz about his struggling marriage with Lisa Bonet, is a plea to not break up, but it ultimately proves unsuccessful.

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* "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" by Music/LennyKravitz about his struggling marriage with Lisa Bonet, Creator/LisaBonet, is a plea to not break up, but it ultimately proves unsuccessful.

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* "Go Your Own Way" by Music/FleetwoodMac, written by Lindsey Buckingham about fellow band member, Music/StevieNicks, about her both dumping him and sleeping with the [[LeadDrummer drummer]], Mic Fleetwood.
** "Silver Springs" by Nicks is her AnswerSong.

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* Music/FleetwoodMac's ''Music/{{Rumours}}'' is a whole album of celebrity break-up songs[[note]]Except for the songs keyboardist Christine [=McVie=] wrote about how much she loved the man for whom she had left her husband, bassist John [=McVie=].[[/note]] after the fiery demise of the on/off relationship between guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Music/StevieNicks, with each blaming the other for everything that went wrong.
** Buckingham claimed that Nicks dumped him after having cheated on him (including, unbeknownst to him at the time, with drummer Mick Fleetwood), as heard in "Secondhand News" ("I know there's nothing to say/Someone has taken my place"), "Never Going Back Again" ("You don't know what it means to win/Come down and see me again"), and
"Go Your Own Way" by Music/FleetwoodMac, written by Lindsey ("Tell me why everything turned around/Packing up, shacking up is all you wanna do" - lyrics that especially enraged Nicks).
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Buckingham about fellow band member, Music/StevieNicks, about had no idea how to respond to her both dumping love for him and sleeping with suggested he would regret his callousness one day, as heard in "Dreams" ("But listen carefully to the [[LeadDrummer drummer]], Mic Fleetwood.
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sound of your loneliness/Like a heartbeat, drives you mad"), "I Don't Want to Know" ("You say you love me, but you don't know"), and "Silver Springs" by Nicks is her AnswerSong.("I know I could've loved you, but you would not let me/I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you"), the last of which was explicitly intended as an AnswerSong to "Go Your Own Way".[[note]]Fittingly, "Go Your Own Way" was released as a single in December 1976 with "Silver Springs" as the B-side, but it took until the 2004 CD re-master for it to be included on ''Rumours''.[[/note]]
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* Music/MariahCarey and Music/{{Eminem}} had a very public feud over whether or not they had a fling. Carey insists that nothing happened between them, though the fact that she wrote two entire songs about how much she loathes him [[StreisandEffect implies otherwise]]. From her side there was "Clown" and "Obsessed," while Em mentioned her in "Superman," "When the Music Stops," and "Jimmy Crack Corn," while "The Warning" was entirely dedicated to her.

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* Music/MariahCarey and Music/{{Eminem}} had a very public feud over whether or not they had a fling. Carey insists that nothing happened between them, though the fact that she wrote two entire songs about how much she loathes him [[StreisandEffect implies otherwise]]. From her side there was "Clown" and "Obsessed," while Em mentioned her in "Superman," "When the Music Stops," "Bagpipes From Baghdad," and "Jimmy Crack Corn," while "The Warning" was entirely dedicated to her.
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* Mercilessly parodied on ''Series/SpittingImage'', where Music/PhilCollins' tendency to turn his marital woes into chart-topping singles was sent up in the piss-take song ''I'm So Lonely''.
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** "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" about Creator/JakeGyllenhaal

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** "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "Music/AllTooWell" about Creator/JakeGyllenhaal

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