Melancholic songs by girls' bands. Recommended masterpieces and popular tracks.
This is a playlist of bittersweet songs by girl bands.
Each track powerfully captures the unique feelings and emotions of girls in an emotive way.
Perhaps it’s a hallmark of girl bands, but although the songs are sad, they don’t feel heavy or gloomy—that’s what’s great about them.
It’s the perfect list for when you want to indulge in a touch of sentimentality.
A girls’ band’s bittersweet songs. Recommended masterpieces and popular tracks (1–10)
To the moonHump Back
A girls’ band that evokes classic rock groups.
You’ll be drawn into their unique world.
The vocalist’s straightforward, heartrending voice is truly a pleasure to listen to.
It’s amazing to get such a wonderful work from a three-piece band—the bare minimum of instruments.
Absolutely fantastic.
disgust; aversion; repulsionchakura
Let me introduce a song that marks a new frontier for Chakra, the four-piece band known for their ‘headlong-charge girls’ band’ tagline.
Released as a digital single in September 2025, this track stands out by weaving piano tones into their traditionally intense guitar rock, bringing the nuances of emotion into sharper focus.
The lyrics, written in down-to-earth language, pierce the heart as they capture the exhaustion of human relationships and feelings that can’t be neatly resolved.
When you’re frustrated from hitting a wall in your studies, or on nights when tangled emotions keep you from concentrating, Sakura’s emotional vocals will speak for your confusion and help dissolve it.
This fan-beloved masterpiece, which gained support alongside their nationwide tour, is the perfect number for settling your mind and getting back to your desk.
Cowardly ByakuyaTogenashi Togeari
First released as audio in November 2024 from the bonus CD included with the Blu-ray and DVD of the TV anime “Girls Band Cry,” this track is featured on the EP released in November 2025.
Lyrics by Erina Kaiser, composition by Akitsugu Fukushima, with arrangement and production by Kenji Tamai of agehasprings.
While confronting a sense of loss, the song races forward on an emotional rock sound, carrying feelings that refuse to fade.
You can’t help but relate to the swaying emotions and the struggle to fill loneliness within the never-darkening hours of the white night.
It’s a rock tune packed with the unique worldview of Togenashi Togeari.
moreConton Candy
A ballad that captures, with a rock sound, the feelings of being tormented by regret while looking back on a love that has ended.
Released in January 2024, this track marks a step beyond Conton Candy’s previously pop-oriented style.
The lyrics, drawn from vocalist Tsumui’s own real experiences, repeat the question of “if only I had…” and pierce the heart.
It’s a song that gently stays by the side of anyone who can’t let go of a past romance or something they’ve lost.
the ends of the earthFINLANDS
It’s a piercing track that lays heavy melodies over dependence on others, feelings of inferiority, and an unshakable loneliness.
It’s a song by FINLANDS, included on the EP “UTOPIA,” released in March 2019.
Written by Fuyuko Shioiri around the age of 22, the lyrics stand out for their candid portrayal of a romantic relationship and self-loathing.
It captures the sensation of losing one’s sense of direction while gazing at the lights of the Shuto Expressway, and the emptiness that comes with it.
If you’re someone who carries a hole in your heart that can’t be filled even when you’re with someone, give it a listen.