Last week we shared with you dating lingo and defined the word “situationship” so it’s fitting that our song of the week is “Situationship” by Snoh Aalegra, from 2019’s Ugh, Those Feels Again. A situationship is a relationship where the terms haven’t been clearly defined and nobody involved really knows where things are heading. In Aalegra’s song, there are lyrics such as the following, that play on the exciting and potentially frustrating aspects of diving into a situationship where people may be seeking different things:
Of the inspiration for the song, Aalegra told Elle:
They’re about a few different experiences and different people, but mainly about my previous one-and-a-half-year relationship. Once that relationship ended, I started to talk to people. Love became fun again because the first phases are always exciting. That’s how songs like “I Want You Around” and “Situationship” came about. I started seeing somebody and, literally, he tried to kiss me and I told him, “I don’t want to kiss you yet. I just want to feel you.” We were out in a club. He jokingly said, “You should put that in a song,” and I did. If I’m seeing somebody, even if it’s just a flirt, whoever it is, they become my muse.
Whether or not you’ve ever been in a situationship, you’ll want to groove to “Situationship:”