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| Re: Title/terminology aside, a good Paul post by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/15/2013, 3:53am PST | ||||
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| Two things. First, I didn't necessarily had a term for the types of songs, but there is a term for those that support their religion, "Christian Apologetics," which is not that they apologize over their religion, but that they argue in defense of it.
Second, I just got thinking about the "three degrees of break-up songs," As Paul McCartney and Wings sang, "You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. And I see it isn't so." People - who can write music, anyway - write love songs for a number of reasons. "There'll be sad songs, to make you cry. Love songs often do," as Billy Ocean opined. Actually, these are "metalove" songs, songs or love songs about love songs, the way "metadata" is data about data. I think I've just created a new word. Naah, Google Search indicates others have already used it in different contexts. As Bertie Higgins did, he wrote a love song to impress his girlfriend, or in his case, temporarily ex-girlfriend, who was so impressed that he won her back. In the primary apologetic which got me started on the thread, Baby Come Back, I don't know if it was simply he was doing a song in which he had an idea and wrote a song, the way I write fiction to express ideas, wrote a song to express how badly he feels about how wrong he did and was trying to convince her to come back, or it was based on something someone else did. I've heard of love songs and metalove songs all three ways. Some of these work quite well and point out oh too common practice. The Supremes, "You Keep Me Hanging On," is an example of a common practice, someone who decides they don't want someone (or don't want to have sex) but they don't want the person to see other people. I have a posting here where I showed a comment I made on Yahoo Answers about a girl who mentions that she wants to wait until she's married before she has sex, but wants her boyfriend not to dump her nor get sex from someone else, and some part of me is thinking she is - like far too many women - acting batshit insane. It's perfectly reasonable if she's decided to remain a virgin until marriage although I disagree with the practice. But she wants to hold her boyfriend to that as well. She doesn't want to have sex and at the same time wants to deny it to him. It's one thing - and often a good idea - for a couple who is going to get married to stop having sex for a couple weeks to a month before the wedding, that way when they have sex again they're both really horny and the wedding night is special, a lot more than if they were regularly having sex. But most couples can't marry until much later, there are financial and tax implications when you get married, possibly even more so now than when a couple was the man who was the primary breadwinner, a single earner could support a household, and the woman usually stayed home and manufactured kids for a living. I don't know how I got on this tangent, but anyway, so I really didin't have a good title for the item. Newspapers have professional writers who do nothing but write the headlines for stories. They have no emotional connection to the story, and they can often write a headline that summarizes the story without giving it away. I don't have that kind of luxury, and so I had to guess what to call it. So I used the term "apologetics," about people who are sorry for their mistake, as it relates to love songs on the subject. Which was, I guess, the best I could do. "And what's wrong with that?" - Paul McCartney and Wings, Silly Love Songs. |
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The Apologetics, and those who don't by 12/14/2013, 5:04pm PST  Add another "end" song by 12/14/2013, 5:38pm PST Title/terminology aside, a good Paul post NT by 12/14/2013, 6:05pm PST Re: Title/terminology aside, a good Paul post by 12/15/2013, 3:53am PST What's your opinion on Beyoncé's new album? NT by 12/15/2013, 6:17am PST Your opinion on Beyoncé's new album? i'll never Knowles what it's about. NT by 12/15/2013, 9:35am PST |
