100 Best Songs About Being the Other Woman
Songs that Capture the Experience of Being the Other Woman
There’s something sticky and strange that happens when you find yourself in the middle of someone else’s relationship. Not fully in, never fully out, always dodging the edges of text threads and public run-ins like it’s some secret sport. There’s a cocktail of guilt, craving, and a weird defiance that burns through your chest even when you know the ending won’t be yours. And there’s music for that. The kind that doesn't moralize or clean it up. It sits in the tension. It lets the mess breathe.
You can hear it in the way certain pop, rock, country, and R&B songs don’t flinch. The vocals tilt low like a confession or snap sharp like a dare. Sometimes it’s a slow burn, sometimes it hits like headlights on a car you weren’t ready to see. There’s something raw in hearing someone own the role no one’s supposed to admit to. Not to glamorize it, not to excuse it. Just to say, yeah, this is where I was, this is what it felt like, and here’s the track I kept on repeat while it all blurred together.
These aren’t songs for closure or clarity. They’re for late-night stares at a phone that stays dark. For the voicemail you play once then delete. For moments when desire folds into denial and still keeps moving. These tracks live in that low-lit corner of the story most people don’t sing from. Here are the best pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that nail what it feels like to be the other woman.
Top 10 Other Woman Songs
1. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
2. 'Saving All My Love for You'—Whitney Houston
3. 'Me and Mrs. Jones'—Billy Paul
4. 'Secret Lovers'—Atlantic Starr
5. 'The Other Woman'—Nina Simone
6. 'The Other Woman'—Ray Parker Jr.
7. 'If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)'—Luther Ingram
8. 'Does He Love You?'—Reba McEntire and Linda Davis
9. 'As We Lay'—Shirley Murdock
10. 'Call Your Girlfriend'—Robyn
Songs on Other Woman Situations #11—30
11. 'You Oughta Know'—Alanis Morissette
12. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
13. 'Unfaithful'—Rihanna
14. 'Lips of an Angel'—Hinder
15. 'She Don't Have to Know'—John Legend
16. 'Confessions Part II'—Usher
17. 'Careless Whisper'—George Michael
18. 'My Little Secret'—Xscape
19. 'Secret Love Song'—Little Mix featuring Jason Derulo
20. 'I'll Be The Other Woman'—The Soul Children
21. 'A Thing Goin' On'—Coolio
22. 'Disclosure'—Magnets featuring Lorde
23. 'It's Not Right but It's Okay'—Whitney Houston
24. 'You Know I'm No Good'—Amy Winehouse
25. 'Mr. Brightside'—The Killers
26. 'I'm So Into You'—SWV
27. 'Go With You'—Toro y Moi
28. 'Kinda I Want To'—Nine Inch Nails
29. 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow'—The Shirelles
30. 'Terrible Love'—The National
Hidden Affair Songs #31—50
31. 'Sour Cherry'—The Kills
32. 'Mind Over Time'—Interpol
33. 'The Way You Love Me'—Karyn White
34. 'The Way We Were'—Barbra Streisand
35. 'Love Is A Battlefield'—Pat Benatar
36. 'Love Triangle'—RaeLynn
37. 'Bizarre Love Triangle'—New Order
38. 'The Boy Is Mine'—Brandy and Monica
39. 'Same Girl'—R. Kelly and Usher
40. 'Illicit Affairs'—Taylor Swift
41. 'Undercover'—Kehlani
42. 'Dirty Little Secret'—The All-American Rejects
43. 'Secret'—Mariah Carey
44. 'If They Knew'—TLC
45. 'I Know Places'—Taylor Swift
46. 'Dancing With Our Hands Tied'—Taylor Swift
47. 'Cruel Summer'—Taylor Swift
48. 'Getaway Car'—Taylor Swift
49. 'Call It What You Want'—Taylor Swift
50. 'Change Your Mind'—Tori Kelly
Other Woman Perspective Songs #51—75
51. 'Keeping It In The Dark'—Daya
52. 'Monster In Me'—Little Mix
53. 'Next To You'—Chris Brown and Justin Bieber
54. 'No One'—Alicia Keys
55. 'No Way'—Fifth Harmony
56. 'Quit'—Cashmere Cat and Ariana Grande
57. 'Somebody Told Me'—Charlie Puth
58. 'Hush Hush'—The Band CAMINO
59. 'Bad Love'—The Aces
60. 'Girlfriend'—Michael Jackson
61. 'The Secrets In The Telling'—Dashboard Confessional
62. 'Sex'—The 1975
63. 'R U Mine?'—Arctic Monkeys
64. 'Charlie Ain't Home'—ZZ Ward
65. 'Friends'—Ed Sheeran
66. 'Should've Said No'—Taylor Swift
67. 'Dilemma'—Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
68. 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies'—Panic! at the Disco
69. 'Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)'—Blu Cantrell
70. 'Love Shoulda Brought You Home'—Toni Braxton
71. 'Just Friends'—Amy Winehouse
72. 'Caught Out There'—Kelis
73. 'Take A Bow'—Rihanna
74. 'Bust Your Windows'—Jazmine Sullivan
75. 'In an Expression of the Inexpressible'—Blonde Redhead
Affair-Themed Songs #76—100
76. 'Back to Black'—Amy Winehouse
77. 'The Girl Is Mine'—Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
78. 'Jessie's Girl'—Rick Springfield
79. 'Three Way Love Affair'—Elton John and Thom Bell
80. 'Layla'—Eric Clapton
81. 'No Distance Left To Run'—Blur
82. 'Scotty Doesn't Know'—Lustra
83. 'Two Princes'—Spin Doctors
84. 'She Came Along'—Sharam featuring Kid Cudi
85. 'Animal Lover'—The London Suede
86. 'Time For Action'—Secret Affair
87. 'Shake and Shout'—Secret Affair
88. 'My World'—Secret Affair
89. 'Do You Know?'—Secret Affair
90. 'Let Your Heart Dance'—Secret Affair
91. 'I'm Not Free (But I'm Cheap)'—Secret Affair
92. 'Going To A Go-Go'—Secret Affair
93. 'Sound of Confusion'—Secret Affair
94. 'Glory Boys'—Secret Affair
95. 'What Did You Expect'—Secret Affair
96. 'Black Cat'—Secret Affair
97. 'Somebody Else's Guy'—Jocelyn Brown
98. 'Part-Time Lover'—Stevie Wonder
99. 'Think Twice'—Celine Dion
100. 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go'—Whitney Houston
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