5 Disturbing Messages That Always Show Up In Love Songs Analysis

Music has evolved a lot over the years. What once started as monophonic chanting eventually turned in to polyphony, then to multiple harmonies and soon concertos and symphonies were being written and preformed. But there has been one theme in music that has remained fairly constant over the years, almost more than anything else. Love. People have been using music to impress the object of their hearts desire for almost as long as music has been around. Beautiful flowing music, and romantic dramatic imagery, pulling out all the stops to try and win over whoever the song is about. So it didn’t take too long for this trend to be noticed and capitalized on. What were once songs of heartfelt confessions soon turned into vague songs that could be

It makes sense that there have been some disturbing messages that show up in love songs. After all, the way we relate to each other has changed a lot over the years due to changes in our culture and technology. The Relevant Magazine article “Does Media Distort Love? A Look at our Corrupting Views of Romance, Relationships, and Sexuality” by Jake and Melissa Kircher says, “Can technology and media aid intimacy? In many ways, yes. However, they also have a polarizing effect on relationships. According to recent studies, the average American takes in about 3,500 to 5,000 marketing messages a day and spends about 41 hours per week using technology such as cell phones, TV, video games, music and the Internet.” Make no mistake, Iannone’s this is not a scholarly article. It is written for a comedy magazine, and as such it uses some crass language, some lewd imagery, and more than a few jokes that you wouldn’t want your mother to read. However, overall, I don’t think that most of Iannone’s claims are totally unfounded. Despite some hyperbole, the article does bring up some valid points about some of the messages that love songs can

Iannone says, “…unless you're a wizard made of love luck, chances are you're going to deal with heartbreak and loss at one point, or several hundred. Singing about it is one thing, but doing so in a way that makes it clear you're not over this failed long-ago romance, and will go to your grave pitifully pining for it, is just about the saddest route one can take.” It’s healthy to process after going through heartbreak, but after a while it becomes more of a fixation. Iannone says about the song “Lips of an Angel”, “Men can pathetically pine forever, too, like with Hinder's "Lips of an Angel." Forgot about Hinder? Lucky you. The barely-singer has a girlfriend who, based on the complete lack of detail he indulges about her, is a perfectly fine human being. But he's not over his ex, and the entire song is him talking to her on the phone while his current belle sits unknowingly in another room…” There’s a big difference between letting yourself grieve and not even seeing the people around