Non-Urban Music Gettin' tired of "I love you" songs.

[H.E. Pennypacker]

This has nothing to do with being in a relationship or not. This is about "I love you" songs becoming too much. Its just getting too much..to the point that it is infiltrating the rap world.

I wish, for a minute, there was only gender...so that there would be an end to "I love you" songs. Uh, and they wonder why some people like "gangsta rap." When the only other option is "I love you..I am crazy about you..you make me smile," you really gotta like "gangsta rap."

Women have a bigger problem with this. What exactly do women have to sing about besides love and men? Uh..nothing! That's what it looks like, because an endless number of female singers can't get enough of singing about men.

I am expecting someone to give me examples of me being wrong...but don't bother. What I said is generalities about the music industry.

 

[Amara]

Males, females, groups - they all seem to have a problem with this. I dont mind a good love song, but the thing that bothers me is that the subject is overdone to the point where it becomes meaningless... it's all a bunch of tired cliches, the messages have no potency, it has all been done and usually they written by someone other than the singer so that they are delivered without the sentiment and emotion which they are supposed to envoke. Then again if someone were to write about the colour of chairs on the bus, are people gonna enjoy that and wanna listen to it? I guess love, whatever its positive or negative forms, is something that we all have in common, no matter who we are and what kind of life we have lived..

 

[critikaldesignz]

This type of music is called pop, hence Pop-Rap.

 

[Salar]

Males, females, groups - they all seem to have a problem with this. I dont mind a good love song, but the thing that bothers me is that the subject is overdone to the point where it becomes meaningless... it's all a bunch of tired cliches, the messages have no potency, it has all been done and usually they written by someone other than the singer so that they are delivered without the sentiment and emotion which they are supposed to envoke. Then again if someone were to write about the colour of chairs on the bus, are people gonna enjoy that and wanna listen to it? I guess love, whatever its positive or negative forms, is something that we all have in common, no matter who we are and what kind of life we have lived..

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Well said

I just don't understand a sone when they say "you're so beautiful" "you look like an angel" "you're gorgeous" blah blah. They're saying that love is based purely on looks. What happened to saying things like "you have a great personality", "a generous and loving heart" and whatever.
And as Amara said, when singers don't write their own music it's just a clear representation of the meaningless songs that are coming out.

What happened to songs like Goo Goo Dolls - Iris. (If you don't have the song, go get it). The truth behind the song is that the lead singer and his girlfriend had a massive fight and he ran away locked himself in a bombshelter for a week and wrote this song.

 

[Sebastian]

Males, females, groups - they all seem to have a problem with this. I dont mind a good love song, but the thing that bothers me is that the subject is overdone to the point where it becomes meaningless... it's all a bunch of tired cliches, the messages have no potency, it has all been done and usually they written by someone other than the singer so that they are delivered without the sentiment and emotion which they are supposed to envoke. Then again if someone were to write about the colour of chairs on the bus, are people gonna enjoy that and wanna listen to it? I guess love, whatever its positive or negative forms, is something that we all have in common, no matter who we are and what kind of life we have lived..

was it ever any different? i cant see how there are more love songs out there than a few years ago

 

[Amara]

was it ever any different? i cant see how there are more love songs out there than a few years ago

I never said there was, you read it wrong.

 

[Sebastian]

well it sounded like u were agreeing with penny on "it is becoming too much" because u said the topic is overdone

 

[Amara]

well it sounded like u were agreeing with penny on "it is becoming too much" because u said the topic is overdone

It is becoming too much, not in terms of relative quantity but simply because, like I said, there is nothing new or unique - it's the same old shit being reiterated - the same old cliches...

 

[Illuminattile]

The situation is made even worse when the majority of these love songs aren't even written by the artists themselves. So, not only are they singing about something that's very cliched, but they don't even mean it.

But it's not hard to see why they do it. There'll always be a receptive audience for it - those madly in love. It's easier than writing about something people might not understand or relate to. Plus, all the teenage girls can listen to Justin Timberlake sing about how much he loves someone and pretend it's about them.