All tagged Love Songs

33. Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

This is the antithesis of corporate music drafted in committee and recorded by disinterested observers.

Meaning and emotion drip from every note, chord, riff, drum fill, cymbal tap and vocal quiver. And that meaning is clear:

To love is to be vulnerable; and sometimes that vulnerability means you’ll get hurt.

People will let you down, and you won’t always understand why.

19. Lovesong - Amiel

Your usual love songs have never been terribly interesting to me.

The schmaltzy, boring lyrics and flat vocals all over the radio are just dull. They’re chemically treated to exist without any context, floating away from any significance.

They’re the antithesis of this entire series actually – songs bereft of meaning, with the additional quality of being sonically boring.