A roundup of love songs themed around homosexuality and LGBTQ+
Gender doesn’t matter when it comes to your feelings for someone you love!Have you ever listened to songs about same-sex love or music themed around LGBTQ+?In this article, we’ll be introducing a wide range of tracks that capture the emotions of same-sex love, as well as works related to LGBTQ+.When you find lyrics you can truly relate to, your heart is sure to soar!Whenever you want to be honest with your feelings or share your love with that special someone, let music give you strength!
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Romance Songs Themed Around Homosexuality and LGBTQ+ (21–30)
But you have a boyfriend, right?Kasamura Tōta
This is a song by Tota Kasamura that conveys the pain of being caught on the border between friendly affection and romantic feelings.
Precisely because of its simple structure—just piano and layered vocals—the image of someone confronting their shifting emotions head-on comes across vividly.
Even if the other person treats them as a friend, they themselves feel something more; the piece depicts, throughout, the inner conflict of being unable to confess those growing feelings.
Because the content suggests the other person is a friend of the same sex, the fear that their relationship would change if they were to speak up comes through even more strongly.
BitterRosu
This is a song by Ross that conveys the bewilderment and anxiety of an unfamiliar feeling as one’s romantic feelings grow.
The clamorous sound of various instruments strongly evokes shifting emotions and a sense of inner instability.
Even as it holds contradictions, the depiction of irrepressible love also communicates a determination to push forward despite getting hurt.
Although the specifics of the romance aren’t mentioned, it leaves the impression of laying bare a range of anxieties related to love with unflinching directness.
Sweet MemoryMACO
A song that can also be interpreted as about homosexuality, this is a poignant love ballad about an unrequited love.
Even when you truly care for someone, sometimes that love just can’t come true.
I think there are still many cases where the other person lacks understanding or holds prejudice.
In times like that, listen to this song and let it give you courage.
Its gentle melody is soothing, too.
The holeKing Gnu
Generally, when people hear “ikebo,” they imagine a low voice, but it’s no exaggeration to say that Daiki Tsuneta of King Gnu, with his high, lustrous singing, expanded “ikebo” to also mean a cool-sounding vocal.
From a historical perspective, the taboo against being gay arose after the spread of Christianity.
Considering Socrates in the pre-Christian era, who, despite having a wife and children, engaged in pederasty, one could interpret it as something rather natural.
I hope that King Gnu—whose name signifies the leader of a great herd of gnus—will, through this song, serve as a guiding signpost for troubled men.
As night fellnishina
Nishina’s song “Yoru ni Natte” is filled with diverse expressions of love that evoke deep empathy in listeners.
Released digitally on October 13, 2021, its music video, directed by Miss Bean, is a beautiful work that combines footage shot in Hong Kong and Japan.
It portrays the lives and loves of people walking different paths and will likely help foster greater understanding of the LGBTQ community.
The power of music is immeasurable when it comes to embracing diversity in contemporary society.
Sensing this change firsthand, Nishina will surely continue to send encouragement to many people.
If I Hadn’t Met You ~Summer Snow Winter Flower~Aimer
If you listen to it casually, it sounds like an ordinary love song between a man and a woman, but if you sit with the lyrics and really listen, Aimer’s voice and delivery make you realize it’s actually singing about a love that, at its core, cannot be fulfilled.
This country still lacks full understanding of genderlessness, but I hope that someday it will become a place where such fragile love songs no longer have to be sung.
It’s a wonderful track and one I highly recommend.
friendUtada Hikaru
This song delicately portrays the boundary between friendship and romance.
It is one of the tracks included on the album “Fantôme,” released in September 2016, created through a collaboration between Hikaru Utada and Nariaki Kobukuro.
Characterized by a simple, minimal sound centered on piano and strings, the lyrics reflect Utada’s inner conflict.
It conveys the poignant feeling of harboring emotions beyond friendship while being unable to express them openly.
The artist has explicitly stated that it is about same-sex love.