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World's Smallest Violin
Your problems are allowed to matter 🎻
Who it's for
AJR sings about holding in feelings because your problems seem too minor to deserve attention, until it all builds up.
Bottled-up and invalidated→Allowed to feel
Feelings it meets
What it is
"World's Smallest Violin" is a song by AJR from their 2021 album OK Orchestra. It is about downplaying your own pain by comparing it with other people's, as the narrator measures their struggles against relatives' hardships, such as a grandfather who fought in World War II. In 2022 the song's escalating climax went viral on TikTok.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel;Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., Canto 5
