Music For Hopeless Romantics

Turns out assembling what’s imagined to be a common record of affection songs is such an arbitrary process it is primarily inconceivable. There are so many songs to select from. And but, it is relative. Love songs are so simply ruined. Some songs are written to be love songs however do not feel like love in any respect. Others remind you of the fallacious individuals. Others remind you of the fitting individuals on the fallacious instances. Some songs remind you of affection, however weren’t written to be love songs the least bit. Therefore in committing myself to creating such a listing, I compromised a bit.

I do not count on you to like each track on this playlist. But someplace in these three hours, there are most likely a handful you will like as a lot as I do. Anyway, the entire thing wound up as kind of a style salad, as a result of I feel romance transcends style. The motive for that is that romance transcends—hear me out—love. You don’t need to be in love with one other particular person to wish to take heed to one thing romantic. Even if monogamy or polyamory or platonic love all ceased to exist, we’d proceed by surviving on the love we really feel for different issues. Like the way in which New York City seems to be from the Q prepare because it crosses the Manhattan bridge on a Friday. Like the way in which driving with the home windows down feels. Romance speaks for itself. And since I do know I’m not the one hopeless romantic on this metropolis I put collectively a listing of songs about love. Because I like them. And I like you, too. Happy Valentine’s Day. xoxo.

—Anna Jube

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