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Relationship Songs


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Think about it. Lots of popular songs have to deal with a significant other or a search for one. Sometimes, they’re love songs… two people meet randomly and like each other, and then there’s a nice melody and lyrics and everything to make it sound good and all. There are the breakup songs, songs about having that significant other cheat on them or walk out on them and all that. I don’t mind these songs… sometimes they’re really good songs, which are after all about the music and lyrics more than the meaning… a meaning’s just an extra thing, but not something that decides whether you like the song or now (for me, anyways).

 

But what gets me is how big a proportion of songs out there involve “love” about boys or girls or that such a thing. For general, I’ll label this genre “relationship songs” for lack of a better term. Now for some experimentation.

 

Part 1

 

Go grab your music player and set the thing to random (like every other music thingy out there in BZP blogs). Go through the first ten or so songs (if you want to continue with this through however many songs you have, go ahead, but ten makes it better for creating percentages afterwards.) Listen to the individual songs and determine if they’re a relationship song or not (of course, there is some leeway, as some songs might not quite fit in the category). Do this for the first ten songs, then say the percentage of those songs that were relationship songs.

 

My example. Out of my first ten songs, three were relationship songs. That’s only 30%. However, out of my first twenty songs, ten were love songs, so that’s 50%.

 

I’m curious to see the statistics on this, so if you have some time to quickly do this, please post your results, at least for part 1. Please. :)

 

Part 2

 

Okay, now go through your songs and find the first ten songs that are not relationship songs. (Or how ever many you want to post) If you want to, describe what the song is actually about.

 

My example… (note, my taste is music comes from the lyrics and music and everything you get out of song at face value. So if I get one of the song descriptions off, don’t bother correcting me, because I don’t really care…)

  • “We Got the Beat” by The Go-Gos: I interpret it as a dance song, which doesn’t have to be with a significant other…
  • “Blue Collar Man” by Styx: About getting a better job.
  • “Jamming Me” by Tom Petty: He’s talking about stuff he’s fed up with.
  • “Learning to Fly” by Tom Petty: Metaphorical song about moving on.
  • “Come On, Come On” by Smash Mouth: A village crazy’s (or something of that equivalent) view of life.
  • “Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty: He’s just telling people he’s not going to back down (excellent song, BTW)
  • “Kung Fu Fighting” by (???- I don’t have the artist recorded. Huh?): Well, come on, it’s about kung fu fighting!
  • “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver: Talking about some guy hanging out in the beautiful rocky mountains.
  • “Our House” by Madness: I doubt this is a love song, since it appears to be talking about a family on face value… from a kids point of view.
  • “Welcome to My Life” by Simple Plan: by some guy who’s life is obviously a lot worst than yours.
As you can probably tell, I’m into Tom Petty, and a lot of it is because he has lots of songs that go in other directions rather than just a “Boyfriend together with girlfriend” or “girlfriend totally dumps boyfriend” theme. I like songs that vary in themes other than Relationships, and one of my favorite songs (not yet listed) is “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel. If that song doesn’t have a different theme, then I don’t know what does. :P In my opinion, too many relationship styled songs, no matter how cool a tune, will get old after a time, without some new theme thrown in every now and then. (Plus, when you have to do school assignments or something like that which relates to a song, relationship songs never seem to work out.)

 

Anyway, I’m interested to see some music statistics from members who read this blog occasionally, so for once, I’ll ask you to please reply. :)

 

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