USC Aiken Students Share Personal Relationship Songs, Discuss Significance
Sharing songs can be an intimate act. USC Aiken couples shared their personal relationship songs and the significance of the song.
Some of these stories may have you in awe and impatient for Valentine’s Day, while others are going to make you want to sit inside your closet for a minute since you don't have a Valentine this year either (read: me).
Jackson Steed & Meg Hoffmann
Speechless by Dan and Shay
“When we first started hanging out, we would just drive around, talk and listen to music. Speechless came on and [Meg] said ‘That’s my favorite song!’ So I put it on repeat and we sang it really loud with the windows down. Now it’s just kind of our tradition to do [it].”
Tim Behling & Anonymous
Boo’d Up by Ella Mai
“I didn’t know she knew the song, she didn't know I knew the song. Until it came on the car and we both sang along to it.”
Olivia Burley & Anonymous
I Miss You by Beyoncé
“It came on on our first date.”
Anonymous
Heat Waves by Glass Animals
“She was reading a story and in it one of the characters had sent this song to their best friend, sparking doubts about how they were— just friends, or more? She then sent the song to me, without context, and even though we were best friends, I found a song with no context to be a bit odd? Usually there would be something attached to it like ‘I really like this song!!’ but that one didn’t so I pushed a bit. Good thing I did, because she sent me the story and I ended up reading it with her. At first I kept questioning [if] she liked me, because their situation was so much like ours, but I chalked it up to us being best friends, and well … the rest is history.”
Anonymous
driver’s license by Olivia Rodrigo
“That’s it.”
Nathan Williams and Kaya Hall
Pursuit of Happiness by Kid Cudi
“It was a song that was ruined for [Kaya] until we got together and listened to it.”
Anonymous
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
“He just told me one day that the song reminded me of us and I had never heard it. I listened to it and loved it, and so it’s just become our song!”
Anonymous
Somebody’s Problem by Morgan Wallen
“I know it sounds bad, but you have to listen to the lyrics. I dated someone he knew and it ended badly. But now I’m in a stable relationship with him and couldn’t be happier.”
Megan Collins and Tyler Westbrook
One man band by old dominion
“It reminds us of each other.”
Anonymous
Wishing We Were More Than Friends by push baby
“It’s our song because as I listened to it the first time I could perfectly see why she liked it and decided to send it to me. It is light, fun and sweet exactly like her, but to be honest I would have loved any kind of song if it came from her. Even if it’s a song about just wishing to be more than friends, it captures how I felt when I met her, a happy hope, a soft anticipation, when you’re happy because you’re getting close to someone regardless of what the future may bring.”
