Recommended unrequited love songs for high school boys
Teenagers who are right in the middle of their youthful days probably listen to all kinds of love songs.
Among those, I bet many of you tune into unrequited love songs! When you’re in love, it feels nice to find a song about one-sided feelings that you can relate to.
In this article, we’ve put together a selection of unrequited love songs especially recommended for high school boys.
We’ve gathered various tracks—from songs with a male perspective and ones sung by male artists to rock-style tunes—so give them a listen if you’d like!
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Unrequited Love Songs Recommended for High School Boys (21–30)
Ms. Hanako on a high pedestalback number
The eighth single by back number, a three-piece rock band known for realistic psychological portrayals and wistful melodies.
The situations and emotions—ones many of us likely experienced in our youth—really hit home.
Meanwhile, the refreshing sound, in contrast to the heartrending lyrics, evokes the atmosphere of student-era romance and draws you even deeper into the song’s world.
A highly relatable unrequited love song, especially recommended for high schoolers in love.
Unrequited loveAimer
When it comes to unrequited love songs by Aimer, the popular singer known for numerous tie-in tracks such as for the drama “Your Turn to Kill” and the anime “Demon Slayer,” this one stands out.
You’re so in love, yet you don’t have the courage to confess.
The lyrics convey a wish for the other person to notice these feelings.
It’s a song that makes your feelings for your crush grow stronger when you listen to it during a one-sided love.
Whose face comes to mind when you hear this track? It’s a recommended unrequited love song that helps you recognize—and rediscover—the strong feelings within you.
cotton candyback number
A three-piece rock band with a superb worldview that grabs listeners and won’t let go—through vivid, heated lyrics that paint scenes in your mind and irresistibly catchy melodies—back number’s sixth single.
Chosen as the opening theme for the music show COUNT DOWN TV, this track leaves you with lyrics that truly evoke a high school summer festival.
Its ultra-realistic imagery and slightly humid melody and tone are sure to set many high schoolers’ thoughts spinning.
It’s the perfect number to listen to when you’re about to ask out someone you like.
Blue BenchSasuke
A signature love number by a male folk duo.
Before heading to a school reunion, the singer recalls someone he used to like and looks back on a bittersweet romance.
“Back then I just threw my feelings at her and couldn’t really respect her.
I wish I’d been a little more honest.” You can almost hear thoughts like that in the song.
It can be taken as a heartbreak song, but it also resonates with the painful feelings of unrequited love.
astronomical observationBUMP OF CHICKEN
If there’s one song that made BUMP OF CHICKEN famous for their many emo tracks, it would have to be “Tentai Kansoku” (Stargazing).
The lyrics, about stargazing while thinking of a lover who’s drifted away, are heartbreakingly beautiful.
Released in 2001 as their third single, it reached No.
3 on the Oricon Singles Chart, and it continued to rank high in karaoke charts for many years after its release.
While the lyrics are about a breakup, the bittersweet emotion also resonates with unrequited love—so it’s a song I especially recommend to anyone currently nursing a crush.
PretenderOfisharu Higedan Dism
Released in May 2019, this song became a smash hit and propelled Official HIGE DANDism into the ranks of popular bands.
You hear it often on TV and on the streets, right? It was also the theme song for both the drama and film of The Confidence Man JP.
Although it’s a song about a bittersweet love—a one-sided crush that won’t come true—what comes across more than the sadness or pain of that unfulfilled love is the pure feeling and poignant emotion behind it.
I’ve listened to it countless times, and it’s a recommended unrequited-love song that really tugs at the heart.
I want to be your lover.Abe Mao
Even people who usually don’t overthink and consider themselves optimists show a different side when they fall in love, don’t they? Even someone with an easygoing mindset can end up, just like in this song, agonizing—second-guessing everything, wanting to ask the other person this and that, wishing they hadn’t said something, and just spiraling.
It’s a song that conveys those helpless feelings of being in love, packed with a sincere, pure desire to “become lovers.” Highly recommended.