Love. Full-stop.
The moment this four-letter word happens to you every wrong turns right, you suddenly get bouts of a mysterious fever that has nothing to do with sardi, khaasi or malaria, and even the world renounces the necessity of any centrifugal or centripetal force to make it go round.
On to the topic of discussion. As we all know, love has been since time immemorial been the inspiration of songwriters, and that in its many forms? infatuation, longing, platonic, satisfaction, obsession, betrayal, desertion, and not to forget what we find selling as love right now? sex and an obsession with the physical. So what exactly is the ideal love song? Well friends, that definition changes from person to person just as the meaning of love does.
So a girl recently fallen into the love of her life will be most likely found singing ? All I think about is you, while the poor wretched soul forced to devour the shaadi ke laddoo for about a decade will probably find their ideal love song in Bring me to life!
So it all depends on the person. As for this reviewer she’s still looking out for that(in all probabilities)mythical thing called the ideal love of her life, who will be perfect in all respects(although she herself isn’t very sure what or how that is supposed to be). So this list is most likely to be free from all kind of personal overshadows, and the only bias you’ll be able to complain about(and I’m already admitting it, so please!) is that I haven’t really heard many of the classics. My musical knowledge is very limited, and that consists very little but post-90s pop.(And not to forget the songs I myself compose for the bathroom’s sake, but who wants a group of nauseating fellow-MSians anyway?)
So here’s the(un)lucky contestants that have made into the Top 5:
MY HEART WILL GO ON(Celine Dion)
Immortalized by the classic movie Titanic(1997), this is probably the only song all Top 5, Top 10 and whatever lists of love songs will always contain. Love that is the elixir of life and yet the spirit of death, love that conquers and merges all boundaries of the reachable and unreachable? the deep and rich vocals of Celine Dion brings magic of everything that’s love through this amazing song.
WORDS(Boyzone)
True to my limited musical knowledge, it’s only natural that I haven’t heard the original Bee Gees edition(not that I haven’t tried, for I can effectively give you the information that it isn’t available for download at any of the free sites I know of). But the rendition by Boyzone is not only great, but heavenly. It’s only words, And words are all I have? To take you heart away? so simple, yet so elaborate. Feels like? Wow, what else should a girl want to trade her heart? Especially if those Words sell 1 million copies too!
WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL(Ronan Keating)
Yet another song from a movie soundtrack(this time it’s Notting Hill), my friends’ first reaction at this choice was, ’What!? You must be joking.’ An incessant chatterbox like me might have the least probability of hearing someone sing to me *The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me, The touch of your hand says you’ll catch me wherever I fall?. You say it best, when you say nothing at all *? but that doesn?t make it any less of the classic it is to me.
TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY(Savage Garden)
When I first heard the name of this duo, I took them for yet another group of death metal maniacs(those were the days I didn?t care about the R of Rock). But the day I saw this song on TV my concepts were all changed. That was the day I discovered that instead of a couple of savages running around in a garden, Savage Garden actually stood for a couple of very well-dressed and well-behaved guys singing I wanna stand with you on a mountain, I wanna play with you in the sea, I wanna live like this forever, Until the sky falls down over me?
Needless to say I haven’t yet heard another song from the duo, and now they’ve even broken up(the vocalist Darren Hayes had released his solo album I think in’02).
FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY BROKEN HEART(Britney Spears)
I know I’m lying in my grave by the time this line would be read, the number of Britney-spearers in this site will ensure that for me. But even as I confess being myself a big Britney-spearer now, I cannot deny my 13s and 14s growing up with her old more girly(and less sluttish) albums. And I cannot deny the existence of those tearful nights, those bittersweet memories of a unfulfilled childhood crush which I put to an end myself but I still can?t get over, as the lyrics of this song flowed? *From the bottom of my broken heart, There’s just a thing or two I’d want you to know? You were my first love, You were my true love, From the first kisses till the very last rose?
However bland the lyrics were, However church-choirish the music sounded(btw, I haven’t ever heard a church choir either, so never felt that similarity), this song has always meant a world of emotions for me, a world of teenage love and loss which only a teenager understands, only a teenager who has been through it. Perhaps Britney sold so much those days just because she hit the right chord with these songs, each depicting a different emotion. Emotions one won?t understand without being gone through it, especially the adults.
Sorry that I couldn?t be unbiased here guys. I put this one to the last, but couldn?t totally rule it out. There had been times it had meant too much to me.
*PS: My dear MS friends, from the bottom of my? heart, I really find it hard when you say nothing at all. So please go to the comments section, let your heart go on, and pour in the words.
Yours truly, madly, deeply,