Songs that feel like Normal People (2020)
The suffocating intimacy, quiet devastation, and tender ache of a first love that shapes who you are forever.
- Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead: Captures the crushing weight of unrequited longing and the quiet devastation of letting someone slip away.
- cardigan by Taylor Swift: Mirrors the feeling of being worn, loved, and deeply scarred by the only person who truly understood you.
- First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes: Embodies the sheer, terrifying revelation of finding someone who makes the world feel entirely new.
- Cherry by Harry Styles: Translates the sharp ache of watching someone you love move on while you carry the ghost of them.
- Both Sides, Now by Joni Mitchell: Speaks to the bittersweet realization that love and life are far more complex and fleeting than we ever anticipate.
- Slow Show by The National: Channels the desperate need to return home and confess everything to the one person who grounds you.
- Liability by Lorde: Echoes Marianne's deep-seated belief that she is fundamentally unlovable and too much for anyone to handle.
- I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers: Matches the inevitable, roaring emotional climax of knowing a profound connection must change or end.
- The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Evokes the vast, sweeping Irish countryside and the soaring, pure emotional highs of youth and intellectual kinship.
