For me this blog is going to be hard to squeeze 500 words out. I don’t really know or listen to any love songs and I wouldn’t really be able to relate it to the readings, but I am going to try. I asked a few girl friends of mine, what their favorite love songs are and they gave me a few. I looked them up and listened to them but I couldn’t see myself writing about those because I don’t feel that way in my current stage of life. Those songs were so over dramatic and they made love seem like it was the only thing that mattered and what they strived for. The poems also gave metaphors for love and made outrageous comparisons that I couldn’t fathom, just like some of these songs I listened to. But I guess that’s where women currently get their idea of love from, from the songs and literature tv shows. But others may argue that the artist writes and sings about how they feel when their in love or when they are longing for it. But it is hard for me to think of love that way because I have never felt it as strongly as they write and sing.
But back on the real subject, I found a song that sort of relates to the readings that a friend pointed me to, the song is “U got it bad” by Usher. I thought this was funny because it’s so old but I listened to it and it sort of has some similarities to the readings in a small minute way. A part in the song talks about everything else doesn’t matter when you find the one you love. The song also says love can induce exhilaration and that they crave and desire it, just like a few of the poems suggest. So now I guess this is the song I’m going to think about when I think about love, but not really. Right now when I think about love the songs I lean towards is “Tie me down” by the new boyz or “Daddy’s home” by Usher and “Crazy B****” by Buckcherry, these can’t really be compared to the readings. I’m more drawn to the poem “Song” and its realistic point on love, it’s something that people shouldn’t search for, just let it find you when you’re ready. You need more than love to make things work.
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I found your blog really funny, just in the way that you expressed what a silly perception girls have of love now a ways boys are a part of this too. I too agree with you I found that our blogs were very similar in the way we felt about love and the way it is expressed and described in songs its exaggerated and completely romanticized. It has the expectations to such a level that no one could ever really reach. You also mentioned how people tend to focus so much on finding love and love alone, I failed to mention that. It is such a good point that goes along with our opinion. People focus so much on finding it that they are not aware of what else there is to really strive for in life. We or some focus so much on finding love we tend to find and settle due to out lack of patience rather than letting it find us. The way it really should be because it is then that we know we are ready for it. Rather then searching for it to fill a void in our lives. I think that when one is not looking for love that shows more that they are ready for it, because they are not looking for something they “think or feel” they need. Although I do not think this true for all it is true for many. So overall we have the same thoughts and opinions on the matter of love.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your outlook on love JC. I don’t know why females get so caught up in the fantasies that are put out there about love; this can be directed towards males too. But it kills me when a female/male bases love off of something they have seen on tv or heard in a song, it’s JUST a song, real life does not always work out that way. I think that just as you said or maybe Yobi, some people are always trying to find love or turn love into something they have seen on a movie, that they forget there are other things in life to strive for. Honestly speaking love can be one of the last goals on someone’s list to check off because there are so many things in this world to do and so many places to see why spend most of that time dealing with all the headaches that come with love. There are those relationships that don’t require that much work but usually being in a relationship for the most part requires work and patience and a person has to be mature enough to be able to handle everything that comes with it. And if a person relationship is being based off some fairytale they have read or head in song or seen in a movie they are going to have a rude awakening.
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