Recommended love songs for women in their 20s. Classic and popular Japanese love songs.
We’ve curated a collection of love songs perfect for women in their twenties!
Today’s twenty-somethings are often called the smartphone generation, with cell phones already commonplace by the time they were born.
Women especially tend to be trend-savvy, making the most of both work and love during this exciting time of life!
In this article, we’ll introduce popular love songs that resonate with women in their twenties.
From tracks that capture the worries and inner conflicts of being in love in your twenties to happy songs that imagine a bright future for two—there’s a wide variety.
Find the one song that fits you perfectly!
Recommended love songs for women in their 20s: Classic and popular Japanese love songs (1–10)
Tell me more and more about youJuliet
Motto Motto Kimi o Oshiete yo depicts the feelings of a girl shaking off the pain of past love and diving into a new romance.
It’s a 2010 release by Juliet, a gyaru-style unit that initially performed as a masked group.
In the first verse, the lyrics describe her struggle, unable to forget her ex and trapped by the past.
Then a new potential lover appears, rescuing the protagonist from those dark, painful memories.
Their relationship has only just begun, and the song conveys a forward-looking desire to get to know each other more and more from here on out.
LovelessYamashita Tomohisa
It’s a heartrending ballad that expresses a man’s feelings after being dumped.
The depiction of him suppressing his own emotions so as not to hurt her is really moving.
Thinking about how, in the end, she’s the one who dumps him and goes to someone else she likes… it’s painful, isn’t it?
Right now…azu
The feeling of wanting to see him and the anxiety when you can’t hear his voice are things any girl has experienced, right? This song expresses those feelings.
It’s a bittersweet love song about not being able to convey your feelings to a boyfriend who works late into the night.
I want to be your lover.Abe Mao
It was released in 2009 as Mao Abe’s second single.
She wrote the song when she was a third-year high school student, and the lyrics express her unrequited love for someone she liked at the time.
The feelings of a girl in love—wanting to know more about him and get closer—are portrayed with a very fresh, cute charm.
CHE.R.RYYUI
When it comes to unrequited love songs that define the Heisei era, CHE.R.RY is the one! Singer-songwriter YUI captivated people of all ages with her clear, transparent voice and dignified coolness.
It was quite shocking at the time when someone with such a cool image released this sweet-and-sour love song.
Though it sings about a budding crush, you can really feel that endearing, quintessential YUI quality.
When this song was released, flip phones were at their peak, and email was the main tool for communication.
Even though the form has changed today, the feelings we send across a screen surely haven’t.
A Little Love SongMONGOL800
A rugged love song that seems to express with your whole body the joy of meeting someone you love, “A Little Love Song.” It’s the track that put MONGOL800—known as Monpachi, a punk band from Okinawa—on the map.
The album MESSAGE, which includes this song, topped the Oricon charts seven months after its release.
It also holds the record for the highest sales by a Japanese three-piece band.
Its straightforward sincerity—passionately shouting a single-minded love—struck a chord and resonated with many.
It’s a love song that represents Japan’s rock scene!
Love’s Melody and Rainy SkiesAAA
Love that passes each other by — you can’t help but empathize with the bittersweet feelings sung in “Koion to Amazora.” It’s a song by the hugely popular performance group AAA, and since its 2013 release, its popularity hasn’t faded.
Included on the album Eighth Wonder, it also won an Excellence Award at the Japan Record Awards that same year.
You’ve probably heard it in commercials, too.
The song portrays a love pained by “drifting apart over trivial things and being unable to be honest.” No matter what the relationship between the two may be, you can’t help but relate to the protagonist, who doesn’t understand the other’s feelings and agonizes over what to do with their overflowing emotions.