Thursday, 04 February 2010
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What's The Point of Love Songs Anymore?
I've been guilty of once writing a love song or a love poem out of admiration for someone. I was happy to do it, because the like is so mutual that you don't mind getting embarrassed to around the one you have a thing for. Now that I am single, as much of a pleasure as it was to write it, what use will the love song or poem be for when you have no one to sing it to?
Thus, bringing me to the question at hand: what's the point of love songs? Truthfully, I have no qualms about them, except for this little scenario. For this scenario, let's step into the shoes of a successful musician.
Picture this. You wrote a love song specifically as a means to say you are into or in love with the muse that you are dating or want to date. It doesn't matter how you arrange or write it. As long as they are the object of your affection, you wish to sing or play that song all day long, until your ears bleed red with admiration.
But when you break up, then what? Whoever heard the song other than you two wants you to sing the song again. But there is no point. You are singing a tune that is not only written directly to somebody you broke up with, but you, yourself, are now singing the song to nobody. And the performance probably doesn't have the same soul as what you put it in, when you had your original muse.
Situations like this is why mentioning how much you love someone is probably valid, once you know that the relationship will last as long as the message.
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That is an interesting take on it. However I suppose people write love songs because they don't think of a potential break up.
Why bother buying flowers for someone that might dump you?
Why bother writing love notes or even an engagement ring?
It's all an indication of love. And when you lose that person it doesn't mean you never loved them. But singing the song after the fact is well, heartbreaking in the least.
When it comes to love, sometimes you just have to live in the moment. When the heart sings love songs are born. If they have a "valid" meaning in the future is irrelevant.
A lot of my songs are inspired by certain people (I even wrote one about one of my sexual fantasies, but the person I wrote it about doesn't know they are the inspiration for the song. They've just said they like how I sound on it. lol), and a lot of those were romantic situations. But after awhile, the song kind of takes on a life of its own. Like for instance, I wrote a song that was about a rejection from a certain person I liked in college. Now I sing the song without even thinking of that person. I think about what the song is about in general without it having to be about that person. And I still get an equally passionate performance out of it.
I never wrote a love song but I have written a few love poems. even if the relationship ends, the poem was meant for him and him only. it is something for him to remember me by. my point of writing a love poem is because I want him to still think of me long after our relationship ended. I want him to randomly miss me. this guy wrote a poem for me and we're not together now but I still think of him sometimes. what is over is over, but I like to reminisce of the times that I was adored by him and vice versa.
I think that is one of the sweetest things that someone can do. It's a beautiful thing to be immortalized like that in poetry or a love song forever. Those muses are lucky muses .
Write a long song not for the girl you're with, but for the woman you'll end up with.
@melandollic@xanga - I like this reply.
I never really wrote songs or poems, but I wrote notes detailing my affection and what have you. Why? Because I had so much trouble vocalizing my feelings. And I don't think it was so much that I couldn't, but that it just wouldn't sound believable.
After I fell in love, simply saying, "I love you," doesn't feel like enough. But I couldn't express why it wasn't enough in words. So I wrote a lot of letter like things, or little notes, cute little things like that.
I hate being single because I don't have anyone to share my thoughts with. Blah. Emooo.
Yeah it sucks to write and sing a love song to someone who may not care about it, but... it doens't have to be about that. There is someone out there who may relate to it. Just imagine yourself listening to it and then you will have a different opinion.
I guess there really is no point, except to mourn.
the closest i can relate is to compare it to my Ex and i. "our song" was, when we were together, one that we chose out of mutual love for the musician and because he felt it related well to his love for me. now, when i hear it, i think more about our history, and what was good about our relationship. sure, it ended in what seemed like armageddon at the time, but when we were happy, it was amazing, and i think there's something to be learned from every relationship if you look hard enough.
after you break up the song still has the same soul. the person singing it does not.
which is why after a break up we feel like we must get rid of everything that reminds of that person you were once with.
as a successful musician, the show must go on. you can't just simply say "no, i will not play that song because it was written for the bitch/asshole who broke my heart." (lol) And if anything, singing the love song with a broken heart or bitterness (depending on the situation) might just make the song a bit more powerful.
love songs are eternal. if no one wrote love songs or poems, then we'd have all these feelings bottled up inside with nowhere to go and no one to listen to their bittersweet symphonies...
c'est la vie.
It's like having a food baby. Bask in the moment, give birth, move the frick on.
There are no points in love songs or love poems anymore.. It's all just a bunch of bullshit, spur of the moment shit.
@melandollic@xanga - Interesting point! :)
You'd think the people would have had enough of silly love songs
But I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people wanna fill the wooooorld with silly love songs
Well, what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go
AGAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
Well, someone had to say it.
well if you're actually a performing musician, the point is that your song speaks to people. like @EccentricSiren@xanga said, the song takes on a life of its own. maybe the writer's relationship ended, but the listeners' relationships did not, and they still want to hear it! i'm a singer/musician- NOT a songwriter though- and when i sing, i draw from a place of past experience. there's hardly a song i sing that doesn't remind me of somebody. and the power of music is such that, when i sing a song about love, it can transport me back to the time and place when i felt those feelings. hearing certain songs on the radio can take ANYONE back, maybe to the time they first heard the song, or when it was most important to them. it's almost like a song is a time capsule, expressing and storing those feelings so you can always remember what it was like to experience them.
so not only does your song have an important impact on others even after your feelings fade, it's also a great aid to remember a time you were happy. and (maybe after the pain of the break-up subsides), who doesn't want that?
why write a song about anything? things change all the time..what's to say what your writing about won't? 'who cares' is my answer. live for the moment. don't worry about the future because you never know what will happen. so write more love songs!
I guess for me it might be a bit different, since my songs are usually part of concept albums. So the song I mentioned in my earlier comment reminds me more of the character in the story it is a part of than it does of the person who originally inspired it. So that's how songs "take on a life of their own" for me.
Put it away and write a new one.
O_o.
Make a box for all your love songs.
@lewk@xanga - i like that:)
If you are interested in a little help I would suggest reading Willie Nelsons autobiography - He talks all about love songs and how the jukebox would loose 95% activity if it was not for love songs, heartaches and breakups
He also talks about writing a really emotional song and then being able to play it live with just as much emotion and passion without it affecting him -
Example is Bonni Raitt who sang "I Can't Make You Love Me"
I don't really understand why there MUST be a point to writing or singing a love song. I can write a story or a poem without having to currently feel the emotion or have a specific person in mind to inspire the story or poem. I suppose for some people, this might be impossible, that you absolutely have to have a specific muse.
Not all love songs are about requited love, some are about people who are in love and it is unrequited or it used to be requited but is no more.
Love songs, no matter the type, can speak to people on a very personal level. Everyone has felt to some degree the same way that the song writer/singer felt while writing that song.
And if you don't want to sing a song anymore...then don't sing the song. There is no reason to make yourself miserable just to make others happy in this sort of a sense.
Everything has to have a specific point or answer these days. Why can't something just be simple, even when its complicated?
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