Story Like a Love Song
There's something about a love song. The right one will hit you right where you live and make you think of a person, place, or time in a strikingly raw and visceral way. We all have those songs, right?
I've been realizing, as I read through some of our summer books, how many books tie together music and the early bloom of love. One of my favourite teen books is still Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, about one crazy night of ups and downs that builds the start of a romance between two seriously awkward teens in New York. (If you have not read this? You really, really should.) This summer's pick Eleanor & Park joined it when I read it this spring, too, because O. M. G. I could not shut up about it and tried to force it down the neck of everyone I know, it was so awesome and so… true, somehow. Guitar Notes, too, was another one about music being one of the points on which a connection was formed between two very unlikely people, and I liked how they brought out something special in each other, each becoming more than they had been.
It's funny, because I don't usually think of myself as being sappy about this sort of thing – I never watch romantic movies, for example, or read romances, but somehow, when it's about two people with their own issues and quirks who bond together over music, it just works. Maybe it's the love songs?
How about you? Do love songs remind you of someone, or make you wish?
13 thoughts on “Story Like a Love Song”
Love songs make me hope, which in my case can be very painful.
So I apply all love songs to my OTPs in TV shows.
That works! Though I will say – having a heart open to love songs has its painful moments, but it’s very worth it, too. 😉
I don’t really listen to love songs to be honest.
Today it is hard to find a song that isn’t about romance, but I still love them all. Personally, I have songs that remind of people I know. They remind me of situations or challenges that we came through. :)))
Everysong is a love song. The best songs are written about love.
It seems that most songs are about love. The best ones are about that subject.
Im getting really really sick of love songs that really have no heart and passion driving their creation forward. Modern pop has dilluted the essence of this genre of song so much that it has become nothing more than a collection of beats and standard phrases.
Plus I wish more people would write love songs rather than infatuation songs. The latter have much less meaning
Teen love songs are very immature and purposeless. Those artists who perhaps lived through a loss, broken heart or any other event have more to say in their lyrics. Take for example Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream”- one of the most powerful songs ever. But then Taylor Swifts- “Never Getting Back Together” only has meaning for her but it’s taking someone’s broken heart and turning it into hatred. Agreed
I’d agree that a song that doesn’t speak to you isn’t worth a lot – but there are those songs, you know, where you feel like it was written just for you and your feelings or situation, or a song that reminds you strongly of someone, and then it’s an amazing thing.
I think it does have to tap into an emotion that you recognize. It doesn’t have to be heavy, but it has to feel true.
I know, and its those very songs that you treasure for the rest of your life. The only problem is that they’re becoming harder and harder to find
Okay, I can agree that some of those songs have really really deep meanings. It just kills me when people refer to songs like “what makes you beautiful” or :baby” as love songs