La infidelidad es una realidad lamentable en las relaciones, tanto a largo plazo como recién iniciadas. Puede ser devastadora para la persona traicionada, causando dolor, ira y confusión. La música puede ser una poderosa herramienta para sanar las heridas emocionales, y hay muchas canciones que abordan el tema de la infidelidad. En este artículo, exploraremos algunas de las canciones más icónicas sobre la infidelidad, ya sea desde la perspectiva de la persona traicionada, del infiel o del amante secundario.
La infidelidad puede dejar a la persona traicionada sintiéndose herida, enojada y confundida. Las siguientes canciones capturan estas emociones y ofrecen consuelo y apoyo a quienes han sido lastimados.
1. “Tell Me Everything” – Adam Cohen
“Have you fallen for her, I mean really fallen for her. Tell me now, have you fallen for her? Just like I have, you know I. Losing a friend is hard enough, I want to know have I lost my love?”
2. “Only One Week” – The Honorary Title
“Have your lips graced another’s yet or am I the only one? Every time I try to speak to you, those are the thoughts that run. Say something else, girl, I don’t want to have to leave. Our communication is hardly what it used to be.”
3. “Cry Me a River” – Justin Timberlake
“You don’t have to say, what you did. I already know, I found out from him. Now there’s just no chance, for you and me, there’ll never be, and don’t it make you sad about it. You told me you loved me, why did you leave me all alone? Now you tell me you need me when you call me, on the phone. Girl I refuse, you must have me confused with some other guy. Your bridges were burned, and now it’s your turn to cry. Cry me a river.”
La infidelidad no es sólo dolorosa para la persona traicionada, sino también para el infiel. Las siguientes canciones exploran las emociones complejas que experimenta el infiel, desde la culpa y la vergüenza hasta la emoción y la excitación.
1. “Borrowed” – LeAnn Rimes
“I know you’re not mine, only borrowed, ’cause you already belong to her, at least you said so, but I’m starting to believe it ain’t the whole truth. As we’re lying side by side, I get the whole you.”
2. “Magnets” – Disclosure ft. Lorde
“Never really felt bad about it, as we drank deep from a lie. ‘Cause I felt melting magnets, babe, the second I saw you through half-shut eyes. Smoke and sunset, off Mulholland, he was talking, I was wondering ’bout you and that girl, she your girlfriend? Face from heaven, bet the world she don’t know. Pretty girls don’t know the things that I know.”
3. “Something to Do with My hands” – Her Space Holiday
“I’ll do my best to keep you, keep you sleepy as the south. With my old watch on your wrist and my thumbs inside your mouth. Suck on my fingertips until’ you kill all my prints. So your boyfriend has no clue of how much I’ve been touching you.”
Canciones para el Amante Secundario
Ser el amante secundario puede ser una experiencia compleja y emocionalmente desafiante. Las siguientes canciones exploran las emociones y experiencias del amante secundario, desde la emoción y la pasión hasta la soledad y la inseguridad.
1. “The Other Man” – Sloan
“I know you’ve got a man in the picture, but it hasn’t stopped me yet. We’ve all been in one situation or another we regret. Now I’m the other man, no one’s rootin’ for me. If I’m the other man, nature will abhor me.”
“You’ll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain, or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name. Pack up and leave everything, don’t you see what I can bring?”
3. “Girlfriend” – Avril Lavigne
“So come over here, tell me what I want to hear, better yet make your girlfriend disappear. I don’t want to hear you say her name ever again. (Hey, hey! You, you!) I don’t like your girlfriend! (No way, No way!) I think you need a new one (Hey, hey! You, you!) I could be your girlfriend”
