First Son has a question.
"Dad, with divorce so common, why are most rock songs about romantic love?"
posted by Matthew Lickona | 2:52 PM
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11 Comments:
He's already answered his own question.
dang. beaten to the punch by rufus!
He's on to something there.
I dunno ... I think saying most rock songs are about romantic love is selling romantic love short. I'd say most rock songs are about lust and thus is but a mere reflection of why divorce is so prevalent.
Another Coward-
Denis de Rougemont described a corrupt 'romantic love' in his book, Love in the Western World as being not only carnal but spiritual as well.
"This is romantic morality, holding the claims of love to be indefeasible and implying the superiority from a 'spiritual' standpoint of mistress over wife" (234).
Fred
I'll throw this granade over the wall (since Ernie hasn't) - a youth culture so pervasive as our own - of which rock is, if nothing else, a symptom (pace, eldering rockers)- will of course be unable to deal with love in its more mature manifestations - thus, rock sings about romantic love (i.e. puppy love) - or lust - take your pick, but to repeat, I find it laughable when they try to fit a more mature form of love into the matter of rock's beat-driven sound.
Singing about love for Jesus in a rock song just sounds like singing about a one night stand with a guy who happens to be named Jesus - or might happen to have died on the cross - but nothing about the passion itself provides for the gushy nonsense that's presently being called "Christian rock."
So there.
JOB
I do like Bono's lyric in "Man and A Woman":
"I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance"
...
"For love and faith and sex and
fear and all the things that keep us here. In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman"
Because it is easier to find rhymes than singing about trains and trucks.
I think it's just a matter of taste job. Clearly, you don't have any ;)
AC,
It's true. I have no taste in such things: my palate registers a Big Zed when it comes to the Chastity-with-a-driving-sexual-beat-to-confound-the-message sort of music.
Kind of like rewriting Shakespeare's sonnets as Limericks... even if technically proficient, they would still be missing something... I guess I wouldn't know whether to laugh or... what? Lack of taste does that to a person, I guess.
JOB
"Chastity-with-a-driving-sexual-beat-to-confound-the-message"
It's this kind of caricaturing that loses me. I mean, I guess you know why you're saying what you're saying ... I try to make sense of it ... but I can't, and so it just means nothing to me. Just seems like snobbery. I'm not saying what that it is ... but we definitely lack a common context to understand what and why you're saying that which you say.
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