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- "I just heard you found the one, you've been looking.
You been looking for.
I wish I would have known that wasn't me."
(sighs) Well, that sounds like a breakup I had.
- I already don't know it.
- Interesting. I don't know what song this is.
- It could be a crush, you know?
Like, you like someone and you think that it's gonna go somewhere
and then they just friendzone you, which sucks!
- Looks like they're talking about their ex
and the ex is with somebody else.
- A couple broke up and one of them found another person
and the other one is just like, "I wish you would have told me
that I wasn't gonna be the one."
- "'Cause even after all this time,
I still wonder why I can't move on. Just the way you did so easily."
- Damn, that sucks. That's not a fun feeling.
- I just broke up with someone, so this is so relatable right now.
- Whoever he's singing about, or she's singing about, moved on,
but this person has not.
- They're trying figure out like, "Why was it so easy for you
to move along after all this time we've invested in each other?"
- The girl moved on a lot faster than he expected.
But that's kind of normal in a relationship.
Usually, one person who breaks it off is the one
who moves on a little faster.
- "Don't wanna know what kind of dress you're wearing tonight.
If he's holdin' onto you so tight. The way I did-"
Oh my god, I know this song.
It's Selena Gomez! Oh my god. With Charlie, with Charlie.
I love this song.
This is totally a breakup song.
- He's just marinating in his own sorrow,
which is never the right way to go about it.
- The person doesn't want to know what they're doing
with the other person because maybe it hurts them so much.
- There is a level of possessiveness that always remains with people
you were in past relationships with.
That's why people on Facebook always have their exes on as friends
or whatever 'cause they kind of want to know what they're doing.
- I can just imagine this person going through their Instagram freed
and seeing his ex-significant lover in this beautiful dress
and with another guy, and just feeling his stomach sink.
That sucks!
Like, that's a terrible feeling.
- "I overdosed.
Shoulda known your love was a game."
- "Now I can't get you out of my brain. Oh, it's such a shame."
- Overdose about, like, maybe a heartbreak, you know?
He's sad, nostalgic.
- It's just an overdose on the relationship.
It's so consuming that everything is so much more painful when it ends.
- That's the number one no-no in relationships.
Don't play games with people's emotions.
- The relationship wasn't serious to her like it was to him.
Now he's just stuck with all these memories and stuff about her,
and it sucks for him.
- So they're stuck on this person, even after the relationship
or friendship or whatever it was is over.
They still miss them.
- The person is just saying, "I should have known
that this was a game for you, and I shouldn't have gotten so attached."
- "That we don't talk anymore. We don't talk anymore. Like we used to do."
- They just don't talk anymore.
No more Snapchat. No more Whatsapp.
- Recently, I actually went through a breakup
and it is really weird because it's sort of like
you don't know the person anymore.
- A breakup is a really weird thing.
It's the only thing in the world where you can go from being
best friends with somebody to complete strangers.
- It feels like a part of you left with them
and you don't feel whole anymore.
- Oh, I think I know what song this is.
It's Selena Gomez, isn't it?
I think it's called "We Don't Talk Anymore."
I don't think they mean "we don't talk anymore."
It's like we don't communicate anymore.
We don't share each other's feelings.
- "We don't laugh anymore. What was all of it for?
Oh, we don't talk anymore. Like we used to do."
- There's no more happiness. They don't talk to each other.
Why was all that time wasted if she wasn't serious about it?
- A big part of being in a relationship is sharing humor and sharing laughs
and sharing memories, and they don't have that anymore.
- I want to use a metaphor of a pulse.
It went from that to just line. There's no more.
- The person is just thinking about the times they used to have.
Why did we do all that if it's not worth anything?
- "I just hope you're lying next to somebody
who knows how to love you like me.
There must be a good reason that you're gone."
- He's assuming that there's some legitimate reason
as to why she felt that they shouldn't be together.
- I hope that, if we broke up, it's because I'm not the one
and you're with the one.
- It's very sincere.
Like, I loved you, but it wasn't what you wanted.
It wasn't what you needed, so I hope that someone
can give you what you need.
- The rest of the song was kinda like, "Oh, I miss you, I miss you.
I want you back."
But now this is kind of a closure for that person.
- That line is kind of fake.
I don't think that anyone really wants their ex
to find someone better or new or whatever,
but you don't wanna be a total bitch.
- It kinda sounds like he wants the best for her,
but it's through such a backhanded remark.
"Who knows how to love you like me."
But we don't know how he loved her.
- "Every now and then I think you might want me to come
show up at your door, but I'm just too afraid that I'll be wrong."
- This is making me sad now.
I'm kind of in a little bit of a sad mood.
- They both want to get back together,
but none of them have the strength to talk to each other.
- They're just thinking, "I really wish I could go to your door
or you wanted me, but obviously it might not be a good idea."
- That's kind of stalker-ish.
When you break up with someone, just give them space.
Let them be free.
- "Don't wanna know. If you're looking into her eyes.
If she's holding onto you so tight the way I did before."
- They want to know that they're happy, but don't give me details.
- That's why you unfollow them on Facebook.
That's why you unfollow them on Instagram.
- This person's sad.
Sad that the love of their life is now in the arms of somebody else.
- Now he's like, "I don't even want to picture this guy looking at her
and treating her the way I treated her."
- "Should've known your love was a game.
Now I can't get you out of my brain.
Oh, it's such as shame. That we don't talk anymore."
- The person's just reminiscing of what they just--
the whole thing of what they just said.
And they're putting it all together.
- What the whole song is kind of about is dealing with that regret
and dealing with not being with the person you're with anymore.
- It's just something we have to go through and learn from
and grow from, and I think the best part about breakups
is you really come back to who you are.
- The artist is hurt and he's jealous and it's a terrible combination.
He's taking it personally, right,
as if she's doing all that just to piss him off,
when in reality she could've just moved on.
- (Megan) Overall, what do you think this song was about?
- A breakup. A bad breakup.
- Someone who is not yet over the other person.
- He hopes that she's doing okay,
but he doesn't want to think about her doing okay,
with somebody else besides him.
- It was sort of depressing
just 'cause I went through a pretty big breakup recently,
so it hit a little close to home.
- (Megan) Do you know this song's title and artist?
- You know what? I still don't.
- I have no idea.
- I know it, but I can't think of it.
- I don't know, but I can hear it in my head.
- Of course, Selena Gomez with Charlie Puth.
The song, I think, is called "We Don't Talk Anymore."
- (Megan) It's called "We Don't Talk Anymore"
and it's by Charlie Puth, featuring Selena Gomez.
- God!
- Oh, I actually did not know that.
- Yes, okay.
I literally listened to this the other day.
- That's one of those songs that I listen to
and I'm like, "Oh, I like this song. I get the vibe to it,"
but I guess I didn't pay attention to the lyrics enough.
- (Megan) Charlie Puth came up with the song
while talking to his friend, who was sad that his ex
didn't talk to him anymore, so Charlie tried to cheer him up by singing
We Don't Talk Anymore" back to him.
He later realized the melody worked for something more.
- What? He was trying to cheer up his friend
by rubbing it in his face, that they don't talk anymore?
- I don't think I'd be comfortable with you writing a song
about my breakup that I just had.
I'd feel really awkward about it.
- Let's say his friend was telling him how it sucks
and he's like, "Uh-huh. He's trying to still be caring,
but he's writing it down. Like, "Uh-huh.
Yeah, no, that's fine."
He's like texting Selena, like, "Hey, you wanna sing this later?"
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