!!! a small warning before you read: this post touches on anxiety, mental health struggles, emotional vulnerability, and references to recovery/withdrawal. Some songs feel like they understand the part of you that you’d rather not admit exists, and Unstable is very much that song for me. It captures the contradiction of wanting to be loved while simultaneously being terrified that your own insecurities, fears, and emotional baggage will make you difficult to love. It’s vulner

For a song about a boy and his pet rat, for the 1972 film of the same name, it sure did make an impact on 5-year-old me. There’s something strangely devastating about “Ben” because, on paper, it’s a song about a rat! But emotionally, it feels like one of the loneliest songs ever written. Ben Album Art I Copyright: Motown Ben Artist: Michael Jackson Album: Ben Year: 1972 Beneath the softness of Michael Jackson’s voice is this deep longing to be understood and chosen despi