Why are most songs about love?

Most of them aren’t even about love at all; they’re more about infatuation, lust, and erotic or romantic “love”.

 

I'm one of those fools who interprets almost every song I hear to be about whoever I have a crush on at the time, but still I see where you're coming from. It is weird, but it happens.

 

There are just as many songs about death/loss.

 

even i was thinking the same thing.....few months back...
not 99.......but 90% are about relationships and love......

 

How do you know they're actually about love? They might appear to be about love but they're actually might be about something else, like Sara Bareilles track Love Song isn't about love, it's about how her record label was wanting her to write a love song and she didn't want to... In fact, the lyrics might explain why there's a great number of love songs about.


Head under water
And they tell me to breathe easy for a while
The breathing gets harder, even I know that
Made room for me but it's too soon to see
If I'm happy in your hands
I'm unusually hard to hold on to
Blank stares at blank pages
No easy way to say this
You mean well, but you make this hard on me


I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you asked for it
Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you tell me it's
Make or break in this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better
Reason to write you a love song today


I learned the hard way
That they all say things you want to hear
And my heavy heart sinks deep down under you and
Your twisted words
Your help just hurts
You are not what I thought you were
Hello to high and dry
Convinced me to please you
Made me think that I need this too
I'm trying to let you hear me as I am


I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you asked for it
Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you tell me it's
Make or break in this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving I'm gonna need a better
Reason to write you a love song today


Promise me that you'll leave the light on
To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
Cause I believe there's a way you can love me
Because I say


I won't write you a love song
Cause you asked for it
Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
Is that why you wanted a love song
Cause you asked for it
Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
Cause you tell me it's make or break in this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If your heart is nowhere in it
I don't want it for a minute
Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that
There's a reason to
Write you a love song today

 

Not all songs are about love. It just so happens that a lot of the popular songs are about love... so you hear them more often.

There’s plenty of hip hop songs that aren’t about love... Money, “bxtches”, cars, drugs...

Artists try to connect with their audiences to sell more. Just so happens that people can relate to love songs. As love is a big part of people’s lives.

 

Because being in love makes us want to sing.

 

Because a) its a powerful emotion that can make us do all sorts of crazy shi*t, and b) its impossible to describe in a way that truly does it justice, so you can keep making songs about it without running out of ideas

 

These songs are more lust and codependency songs than they are love songs. Sex, lust and relationship drama make anything sell. The music industry is run by bean counters and corporate people so if it sells they won't deviate. Women buy more music than anyone so most of these love songs are targeted at them.

 

Sex and survival are basic instincts, which involves love and death, respectively. Many people can connect to these topics.

 

Serious inquiry then: Define love

 

“Love is mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery.” —Fulton Sheen

Love literally requires a death to self which ends in the rebirth of a new unity with the one you love. In this true love is about sacrifice; it is the nitty gritty stuff you see in the SO section and you won’t hear any songs about that stuff because it’s not a packaged fantasy they can sell to you.

 

This Fulton Sheen archbishop guy sounds like an interesting dude. I do take issue with one aspect of your definition

Love is not literally anything. The only thing love is is what we ascribe to it. None of us can see it, and we can only feel our own emotions, not other peoples'. We can only see love refracted, in art or in people's behavior. I don't think that the songs are any less about love than the nitty gritty. Those go hand in hand, which is what makes it so hard to understand. Everyone wants grand gestures, and no one wants to settle into a routine, but I think a life of grand gestures most people would agree is not what love is.

But it sure is easy to package that fantasy @zeXon. If most of the songs you'll listening to are about love, consider different music.

 

Because the feeling of romantic love is the most magnetic in nature compared all kinds of feelings. Most people at some point in their life fall in love. So its good for singers to sing about love because it sells.

 

Most people can relate. The one band I've grown up with, Three Days Grace, sings about relationships

 

A question for the ages. Never ending debate. A true mystery, which is to say you could contemplate, study, participate and observe it forever and never fully understand or define it completely.

Complete love have been described as containing three things. A lover, a beloved and the love between them. A perfect trinity.

That he was. A Saint to be sure....