An Aromantic's Love Song to the Populace by Nico Bouvier

They have also long been the motors of the modern record industry and the bestselling songs that tackle love are fittingly broad in their approach. Songs about love are society’s soundtrack. The progress of technology, diversity and equality has changed our definitions of love in tumultuous ways no longer, for example, do gay men have to hide their love away, as John Lennon sang back in 1965. Love songs tell us who we are and who we could be within the structures and systems that surround us: when we’re postwar survivors captivated by the possibilities of romance, film and fantasy when sexual liberation surges when love becomes something that can crush social barriers and boundaries or when it refuses to fit into any conventional categories. Love is about all of us in our most extreme states of being and it’s a concept that has changed as society has changed. Nothing compares to love without it, you’re like a bird without a song.īut love isn’t simply a small part of our individual stories. It makes me feel like I’m on another world with you. It flies over mountains and laughs at oceans. Love has also echoed loudly as a metaphor: as a tender trap, a battlefield, the devil, the drug. W hat do we sing about when we sing about love? Over the 65 years of the pop charts, songwriters have described love through similes: like oxygen, like a butterfly, like a heatwave.

An Aromantic's Love Song to the Populace by Nico Bouvier