100 Best Songs About Crushing on a Friend
Best Songs When You Like Your Friend and It’s Getting Weird
There’s a strange buzz that kicks in when you catch feelings for someone you already know too well. Not someone new, not a stranger at a party, but the person who’s already seen you ugly-cry during midterms or rant about your ex at 2 a.m. You’re laughing like usual, then suddenly they say something dumb and you want to kiss them instead of roll your eyes. And that’s where these tracks live. Not in the confession, not in the aftermath, but right in that limbo where things haven’t shifted yet, but everything feels different anyway.
You try to keep it cool, maybe joke around more than usual, maybe send a playlist you “randomly made. You overthink your texts. You flinch when someone asks if you two are a thing. These pop, rock, country, and R&B songs clock that feeling hard. A lyric hits and suddenly you’re spiraling in the most specific way possible. Olivia Rodrigo doesn’t sugarcoat it. Frank Ocean barely looks up. Taylor? She already wrote twelve versions of this feeling, and somehow all of them sting.
These tracks aren’t polished declarations or movie-scene kiss moments. They’re caught in the middle of the tension, before anything’s said out loud. Before you know if the vibe is mutual or you’re fully delusional. Here are the best songs when your crush is already in your group chat.
Top 10 Friend Crush Songs
1. 'Teardrops on My Guitar'—Taylor Swift
2. 'Best Friend'—Lauv
3. 'Why'—Shawn Mendes
4. 'Crush'—Mandy Moore
5. 'You Don't Know My Name'—Alicia Keys
6. 'Falling for You'—The 1975
7. 'More Than Friends'—Jason Mraz ft. Meghan Trainor
8. 'Just a Friend'—Biz Markie
9. 'Jessie's Girl'—Rick Springfield
10. 'Girl Crush'—Little Big Town
Songs About Developing Feelings for a Friend #11—30
11. 'I Wanna Be Your Lover'—Prince
12. 'Clumsy'—Fergie
13. 'Beautiful Soul'—Jesse McCartney
14. 'Everything You Want'—Vertical Horizon
15. 'Bags'—Clairo
16. 'The Less I Know the Better'—Tame Impala
17. 'Can I Be Him'—James Arthur
18. 'Like a Friend'—Pulp
19. 'Without Me'—Halsey
20. 'Liability'—Lorde
21. 'champagne problems'—Taylor Swift
22. 'Fools'—Troye Sivan
23. 'It's Cool We Can Still Be Friends'—Bright Eyes
24. 'I Want the One I Can't Have'—The Smiths
25. 'Do I Wanna Know?'—Arctic Monkeys
26. 'You'—The Pretty Reckless
27. 'Set It Free'—Now, Now
28. 'Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)'—Buzzcocks
29. 'MAPS'—Yeah Yeah Yeahs
30. 'Lovefool'—The Cardigans
Understanding Hidden Romantic Feelings in Songs #31—50
31. 'Surrender'—Billy Talent
32. 'Jerome'—Zella Day
33. 'Strange and Beautiful'—Aqualung
34. 'One Day'—Sharon Van Etten
35. 'Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken'—Camera Obscura
36. 'The False Contender'—Camera Obscura
37. 'Little Bubble'—Dirty Projectors
38. 'Another Sunny Day'—Belle and Sebastian
39. 'Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying'—Belle and Sebastian
40. 'If Loneliness Was Art'—Allo Darlin'
41. 'Cranes in the Sky'—Solange
42. 'august'—Taylor Swift
43. 'tolerate it'—Taylor Swift
44. 'Room Temperature'—Faye Webster
45. 'Kingston'—Faye Webster
46. 'wish you'd ask me'—Matt Maltese
47. 'Toothpaste Kisses'—The Maccabees
48. 'Get to You'—The Honeysticks
49. 'Right Side of My Neck'—Faye Webster
50. 'Your Best American Girl'—Mitski
Music About Unexpressed Affection for Friends #51—75
51. 'Wendy'—Richie Woods
52. 'Twin Size Mattress'—The Front Bottoms
53. 'Hate Yourself'—TV Girl
54. 'Stone'—Born Without Bones
55. 'I Want You So Bad It Hurts'—Field Medic
56. 'Messing With My Head'—Smoothboi Ezra
57. 'Blondie'—Current Joys
58. 'Falling in Love Again'—Joyce Manor
59. 'The East River'—Jeffrey Lewis
60. 'midnight love'—girl in red
61. '4am'—girl in red
62. 'bad idea!'—girl in red
63. 'Bodies Keep Warm'—Native Culture
64. 'Hello?'—Clairo ft. Rejjie Snow
65. 'Love Galore'—SZA
66. 'Blossom (Wasting All My Time)'—Soccer Mommy
67. 'Do You Want Me Now'—The Beths
68. 'Only of You'—Green Day
69. 'Bad Ideas'—Tess Violet
70. 'Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)'—Looking Glass
71. 'Get So Far'—10 Second Epic
72. 'The Night We Met'—Lord Huron
73. 'Where's My Love'—SYML
74. 'You Were My Obsession'—Eliot James Reay
75. 'L.O.V.E.U'—D4vd
Exploring Friendship and Secret Love in Songs #76—100
76. 'You Forgot to Miss Me'—Ruth B.
77. 'Wrong Time, Right Heart'—Chezile
78. 'Whispers in the Moonlight'—Cults
79. 'You Loved Me Quietly'—Kodaline
80. 'You Slipped Through Me'—The National
81. 'You Let Go First'—Birdy
82. 'West Coast'—Lana Del Rey
83. 'Used to Know You'—Mika
84. 'Told Me You Loved Me'—James Blake
85. 'You Didn't Fight'—Frightened Rabbit
86. 'The Way You Make Me Feel'—Michael Jackson
87. 'Crush On You'—Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Cease
88. 'Into You'—Ariana Grande
89. 'Fallen'—Mýa
90. 'Prototype'—OutKast (Andre 3000)
91. 'Electric Relaxation'—A Tribe Called Quest
92. 'If I Was Your Girlfriend'—Prince
93. 'Power Trip'—J. Cole ft. Miguel
94. 'Me & U'—Cassie
95. 'Lotus Flower Bomb'—Wale ft. Miguel
96. 'The Light'—Common
97. 'Someone Like You'—Adele
98. 'She's All I Wanna Be'—Tate McRae
99. 'I Love You, I'm Sorry'—Gracie Abrams
100. 'My Best Friend's Girl'—The Cars
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