My Kind of Love Song......

Turn on the radio....pick any station and any genre....what is the most common topic being sung about?

Go ahead...try my little experiment.....I'll wait!

How did it go?  I'll bet that if you listened to the radio for just 10ish minutes you heard mostly love songs, no matter the genre: pop, rock (even hardcore rock), country, hip-hop, folk, big band, you name it....they sing about IT- "it" being love. (well, maybe not electronica....does that even have words? Whatever, if it did, they would compose songs about love, too.)

This girl is not so mushy-gushy, lovey-dovey though, so a lot of the "typical" love songs make me want to yak a little a lot.  Not cute.

Thank God for Max Bemis, the front-man for one of my favorite bands: Say Anything.

  Now that is what I call a love song! In case you didn't catch the wonderfully catchy lyrics:

When I was eight years old,

Before puberty took hold,
I thought I'd end up beside a princess bride

And love was indivisible.

Never mind how my taste reflects

A disturbing oedipal complex,

It's not awkward girl,

The compliments are coming next.

You're no witch,

You're no wench,

You're like Bjork with better fashion sense,

So I phone 50-Cents

And I'm building up my confidence.

Respect to your work,
You're an artist, I'm a silly jerk.

I think that dynamic could work.

So work it.

Chorus:

I have a total crush on you, baby

And I can't let it go, oh no.

I have a total crush on you, baby

Baby, if only I could let you know.

When we spoke, no joke

I started shedding slutty girls like snakeskin,

My collection acquired through shallow misdirection

And as I drive tonight,

West coast sky daring me to try,

I feel alive tonight,

The possibility that I'm your guy.

Though I suffer from dyslexia

And mild manorexia,

My hair cannot commit to one popular genre of music

And though they all claim

That a girl can't take her boy's last name

Or end up divorced and estranged.

I'm counting on you.

(Chorus)

Your other suitors are no poets

They're only actors who can play guitar

Have I won your heart?

They're not students or screenwriters

They're only models that they taught to read

Love, would you agree?

(Chorus)

Quite sure you love me, Sherri

Quite sure I love you too

We'll each should make a verbal agreement

To only kiss each other

Because one time, beneath the sky

Outside my New York pigsty

I saw a vision of you and I

Ha ha!

Did it hurt?

Did it hurt?

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven, girl?

(Repeat bridge)

Love to all,

~your not so typical love song listener, Jess