With November comes much more than simply Scorpio Season, pumpkin pie and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
For a lot of, the eleventh month of the calendar yr can really feel enormously symbolic. Peaceable, cozy and understated, November represents transition and alter, the calm earlier than the storm of winter, Christmas and New 12 months’s plans. If you come throughout allusions to November in music, poetry or prose, it’s in all probability for a cause; the artist seemingly needs you to take a seat with the sentiments of anticipation and thriller that come earlier than any kind of metamorphosis, whether or not it’s rising up, breaking apart or transferring on to one thing new.
The identical could be mentioned about lots of the songs on this checklist, which spans rock n’ roll, R&B, hip-hop, nation and pop. Axl Rose, for example, touches on it in Guns N’ Roses‘ “November Rain,” singing that “Nothin’ lasts ceaselessly and we each know hearts can change.” On “Candy November,” SZA laments the brutal methods she’s modified as an individual, praying that those that love her will “Keep in mind me for who I used to be, not who I’m.”
As you start to brace your self for a contentious turkey dinner together with your relations, draft your Black Friday wishlist or take an early leap on hanging up your Christmas lights, be sure to bear in mind to get pleasure from November — and the final moments of Autumn, for that matter — whereas it’s nonetheless right here to remain. And if you happen to want just a little musical inspiration, look no additional.
Preserve studying to see Billboard‘s picks for songs about November beneath:
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Weapons N’ Roses, “November Rain”
Picture Credit score: Mick Hutson/Redferns 12 months Launched: 1991
Style: Rock
Notes on November: “So by no means thoughts the darkness, we nonetheless can discover a means/ ‘Trigger nothin’ lasts ceaselessly, even chilly November rain”Hear here.
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SZA, “Candy November”
Picture Credit score: Roger Kisby/Getty Photographs 12 months Launched: 2014
Style: R&B
Notes on November: “Candy, candy, candy November/ Keep in mind me for who I used to be not who I’m”Hear here.
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Zach Bryan, “November Air”
Picture Credit score: Samuel Elkins* 12 months Launched: 2020
Style: People
Notes on November: “So inform me tales of all of the instances and all of the seasons you bought by/ Breathin’ in that chilly November air”Hear here.
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Gorillaz, “November Has Come”
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Photograph 12 months Launched: 2005
Style: Various
Notes on November: “Properly you understand November has come/ When it’s gone away”Hear here.
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Wyclef Jean, “Gone Until November”
Picture Credit score: Paul Natkin/Getty Photographs 12 months Launched: 1997
Style: Pop
Notes on November: “You have to perceive/ I can’t work a 9 to 5/ So I’ll be gone ’til November”Hear here.
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Tyler, The Creator, “November”
Picture Credit score: Noam Galai/WireImage 12 months Launched: 2017
Style: Hip-Hop
Notes on November: “Let me pull over, fast!/ And drive again to November/ Take me again to November”Hear here.
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Lila Drew, “November”
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Photograph 12 months Launched: 2023
Style: Indie pop
Notes on November: “November was a thriller/ I’m attempting to neglect/ I do know that your coronary heart shares the winter”Hear here.
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The Avett Brothers, “November Blue”
Picture Credit score: FilmMagic Inc/FilmMagic 12 months Launched: 2002
Style: People rock
Notes on November: “My coronary heart is dancing to a November tune/ And I hope that you simply hear it singing songs about you”Hear here.
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November Extremely, “Novembre”
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Photograph 12 months Launched: 2022
Style: Indie pop
Notes on November: “November’s all yr lengthy now/ December by no means got here/ I notice I’m alone now/ However all of them suppose I’m the identical”Hear here.
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Morrissey, “November Spawned a Monster”
Picture Credit score: Gie Knaeps/Getty Photographs 12 months Launched: 1990
Style: Rock
Notes on November: “November is a time/ Which I need to put out of my thoughts”Hear here.
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Sleeping With Sirens, “November”
Picture Credit score: Andrew Benge/Redferns by way of Getty Photographs 12 months Launched: 2015
Style: Rock
Notes on November: “There’s a fireplace on this November sky/ It’s burning up, burning up/ They’ll bear in mind me tonight”Hear here.
