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Love Song

Love Song

How Do You Feel a Love Song

A love song is just a caress set to music. They are often songs that are the best means to revive those feelings of a lost or current love. They are a fundamental part of pop music and culture and are typically, romantic ballads, but some are also about the darker side of infidelities and break-ups. How do YOU feel a love song? Do you let it caress you...

A love song is more like a love poem with the only difference of an addition of music with it. It is usually about falling in love and the happiness it brings.

This type of song in the first person are quite rare before the middle of the nineteenth century, but it is not known why this is. However, many believe that love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness where you are able to feel the warmth and beauty of the season embedded in the music of the song.

These songs are also a part of the wonderful tradition of stage and screen musicals which are part of our culture. They can be about the purging of a coy mistress, fantasizing about an estranged lover or about being torn between two lovers.

Love songs are the dance of spirit as it sweats out passion. About the pull and twist of a violin, crying out wanting to be heard, strings popping and reverberating into a multiverse.

These songs are everywhere, and for everybody. They are the poetry of daily life -- a poetry of passion and death, hurt and humor, pleasures and torn dreams of desire. Love songs are one of the most famous forms of expressing love to one another from time and again. Musicians through the years have given it their best attempt to express the meaning of love in their songs.

How do YOU feel A love song? Try to feel them consciously by recognizing such events:

-- Feel the love song at a wedding: Music plays a special part on that day and the quest for the perfect wedding song is something almost all brides go on. Beautiful piano music and slow romantic love songs are wonderful compliments to this setting.

-- To bring someone closer to you: Play a love song that reverberates in your heart. Romantic love songs are the secret diaries of your heart and soul.

-- On special occasions: Valentine's Day songs and romance have gone together since the beginning of time.

-- When experiencing a break-up or loss: Express your emotions by listening to love songs for some can be a therapeutic way of coping with a bad break up, losing a loved one, or simply expressing emotion.

-- For expressing thanks and gratitude: Christmas love songs fill your heart with joy, and affection...and don't fail to express thanks, gratitude and love for yourself and your blessings.

One person wrote from Feeling The Music Philosophy: My perception of feeling music is based on interpreting and feeling the vibrations from the music both 'physiologically' and through 'artificial sound' through using my hearing aids.

Let me fill your heart with joy and laughter, togetherness is all I'm after...Tell me, how do YOU feel a love song?

311 - Love Song

Love Songs

Love Songs

The Love Songs That Make You Feel Sick

A good love song involves meaningful lyrics, quality craftsmanship and the ability to provoke an emotional reaction. For every decent love song, there are countless others that rely on weak lyrics and cliches in an attempt to become a big-seller as the number one wedding song of that year.

Just by reading the lyrics of a bad love song, you can begin to despise it before you even hear the music. An example of this is the increasingly annoying and upsettingly popular James Blunt hit - You're Beautiful. Sentimental, emotionless and sickening, Blunt's voice pierces the listener's brain like shards of glass.

'You're beautiful, you're beautiful, you're beautiful, it's true.'

The repetition of the title suggests that Blunt lacks any imagination or ability to construct meaningful lyrics. To end the couplet (?) with it's true again emphasises the complete lack of meaning in the song and removes any sense of feeling or emotion in what he is singing. Feeling and believability are paramount in the success of a love song, although record sales suggests Blunt's song is more successful than I give it credit.

Almost twenty years earlier, Chris De Burgh was setting the precedent for cheesy love songs when James Blunt was still in short trousers. The lyrics themselves aren't anywhere near the standard of James Blunt, and the meaning behind them has been clearly explained by De Burgh as about his wife. However, as with so many popular love songs, the lyrics become unbearable the more you hear them.

'The lady in red, the lady in red, the lady in red, my lady in red. I love you.'

The song isn't grossly unpleasant, but there is something extremely irritating about the climax when De Burgh repeats the title before cleverly changing the lyric to 'my lady in red' before speaking the final line 'i love you'. So many people's favourite, Lady in Red is too saccharine to be considered a great love song.

De Burgh and Blunt may be the most popular choice for many bride and groom's first dance all over the world, but Bryan Adams monopolised that market for years. From the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves soundtrack, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You was the number one single in the UK for 16 weeks, USA for 7 weeks, Australia for 11 weeks and numerous other countries too many to mention.

The premise of the song is simple. Adams is singing to a loved one, telling them that he does everything for them - linked to the relationship of the film's characters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian. The song was unpopular with the film company and they even wanted to remove it from the official soundtrack, although it was eventually played over the closing credits. The film grossed over 150 million dollars at the box office, and the song became a global smash.

'There's no love, like your love. And no other, could give more love
There's nowhere, unless you're there. All the time, all the way.'

Again, as with De Burgh, the lyrics are reasonable but the extent to which radio stations, TV shows and DJs played the song killed any chance it had of being considered a good song. Now, whenever the opening bars of the song are heard, the listener's memories will recollect pre-teen school discos, sentimental television shows and Kevin Costner - as well as other things that should be left in the 1990s forever.

When we listen to love songs, we want to feel some sort of emotional connection with the material, the singer and the meaning behind the lyrics. With so many love songs that go on to sell into the millions, the lyrics become diluted and lost as the song loses its identity. Maybe this is the argument for Bryan Adams and Chris De Burgh but there really is no excuse for James Blunt.

Sara Bareilles - Love Song