It’s Valentine’s Day. The most romantic or hated day of the year depending on who’s telling the story. MSNBC is using the Holiday of Love to countdown the Top Five Best Breakup Songs. What are some of your favorite tracks for telling a one time squeeze to hit the road?

Denial: “And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going” from “Dreamgirls”

Since its debut in late 1981, “And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going” has taken on a life of its own completely separate from “Dreamgirls,” serving as a defiant anthem for wronged women everywhere. It’s nearly operatic in both its meandering structure and its stentorian melodrama, as if designed to disorient the guy breaking up with the singer and shout him down at the same time. But her triumph is just an illusion, because no matter how vocally she refuses to acknowledge it, the guy she’s singing to is long gone by the time she’s done. “You’re going to love me,” she insists in an act of sheer willpower, but while she gets the spotlight, she’s standing there all alone.

Bargaining: “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” by the Temptations

In which David Ruffin pleads for his woman not to leave him more than any man has ever pleaded before. He doesn’t care how much it chips away at his manliness, and he’s willing to accept every indignity that his abject supplication brings his way. None of it matters, just so long as she turns around and comes back to him. And with Ruffin’s soulful rasp and Motown’s esteemed Funk Brothers backing him up with all they’ve got, the gambit very nearly works. But what woman wants to tell her friends, “That man who humiliated himself in front of God and everyone? He’s mine.”?
Full List At The Source