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“Fainted Love” is about accepting love that is not as great as you deserve. I think there’s been so many times in life that I’ve accepted lesser forms of love just for the sake of knowing that somebody loved me at all in some way. It’s a super damaging thing. You should not do that, but let’s be fucking real. We’re human beings. We do it all the time. You see people who are in five-year relationships with people they should not be dating, but sometimes it’s better than no love. I wanted to write a song that encapsulated that feeling of driving to go see this person who never treats you right, but you still go back to them over and over because you know that you’d rather somebody than be alone. It’s not a play on “Tainted Love.” I’d originally written “Faded Love,” but then I was singing it and I was like, “This sounds weird. I don’t know why.” And so I changed it to Fainted Love because it sounded like “fated.” But that’s not what I’m singing about!
- Conan Gray in a Rolling Stone interview
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