It would be great if you could find a soulmate who already knows how to love you the way you want to be loved. You don’t have to give them rules, you don’t have to drop hints—they just know what to say and do. Most importantly, they don’t need encouragement to love you. They want to take you on dates, they want to surprise you with flowers, and they want to be there for you no matter what. No conditions. No instructions. Just pure devotion.
On Hailey Picardi’s “teach you to love me,” the rising singer-songwriter shares what it is like to feel more or less unwanted in a relationship. It’s a heartbreaking confession, a diaristic admission of lovelessness. Over the acoustic guitar and light piano, she sings, “It feels so insincere / To receive my wishes by command / Yeah, it feels so insincere / Being taken on the dates that I planned / Can’t teach you to love me / It’s too far above me.” Regardless of where you are relationship-wise, it’s impossible not to get emotional over her words; nobody should ever have to feel this way.
About the single, Hailey shares,
“I wrote ‘teach you to love me’ about a catch-22: if I don’t communicate my wants and needs to my partner, he won’t know what they are. But if I do, it won’t feel like it’s coming from the heart when he does them. Either I bite my tongue and he loves me halfway, or I ask him to mirror a narrative I hand-crafted myself—neither of those things feel like love.”
With her latest singles “car crash” and “double edged sword,” Hailey has proven that she is an artist to watch in 2026. To date, she has 4.9M streams and over 518K monthly listeners on Spotify, putting her in the 100th percentile for saves and engagement. This is quite impressive, as she has reached this career high in just under three months. She is also seen as a “big sister” on TikTok Live, as she has built an audience of more than 835K fans. If Hailey is not already on your radar, she surely needs to be. Don’t make her teach you how to love her!
You can listen to “teach you to love me” here.
