Why are most songs about love?

[Coelho]

I first noticed this with Madonna, just song after song after song about love love LOVE. It's pathetic, the theme has been so worn out it's beyond cliche. Any artist should be ashamed to be so lacking in creativity and cop out with a 27 billionth love song. It just shows they really have nothing to say, nothing to create.

My thoughts exactly... thats why i started this thread...

Sex, drugs and murder are easier to write about when writing songs.

Yea, thats why i LOVE rap! imp:

PS. 1400th post!

[geonagual]

FUCK LOVE!! HAHA!!

[beachguy in thongs]

They have a song about that, too. "Love Stinks".

[delusionsofNORMALity]

love is one of the few universally recognized themes that most everyone feels good about. most folks are attracted to what feels good so if you're a song writer and you want to sell your product you'll write about what makes the masses feel best. for the most part it's about nothing more than marketing.

[geonagual]

love is one of the few universally recognized themes that most everyone feels good about. most folks are attracted to what feels good so if you're a song writer and you want to sell your product you'll write about what makes the masses feel best. for the most part it's about nothing more than marketing.

See..that is what i said up there. I knew it.

[ChiefSmokesAlot]

Wow, the title is a bitch to read.

[delusionsofNORMALity]

See..that is what i said up there. I knew it.

so nice to know that there is at least one other great mind on these boards.

[Nochowderforyou]

The title...makes no sense!

Love goes hand in hand with hate. Music is about loving something, or hating something. Which is stronger though, ah that is the question. :stoned:

[birdgirl73]

Wow, the title is a bitch to read.

That'd be because Coelho, its writer, is a native speaker of Portuguese, not English. I think he does a wonderfully good job of communicating with the rest of us considering that fact.

Just the same, I'll tweak his wording to make it a bit more clear. We see far more frightening and incomprehensible thread titles here from people who've never spoken anything but English, and they don't have nearly as good a reason as Coelho!

[ghosty]

Because love is one of the strongest human emotions when truly expressed with meaning. So as long as music has been around, and as many musicians as there are, that's a lot of songs. Everyone experiences it a little differently so people try to write about it differently. The majority of the world and music market likes to only hear songs that make them feel good and love songs do just that, also back when the record industries were first getting mainstream certain topics considered possibly taboo, offensice, or to vulgar were forbidden from being sung about so many old classic songs tend to be about love becase in some senses it was the only thing allowed to be written about. It's an easy thing to write about that everyone can relate to in some way...:thumbsup: