So you Think you Can Write Love Songs?

August 29, 2008

Sure, you know all the lyrics to “Unchained Melody” by heart, but could you actually pen romantic love songs yourself? As prevalent as these tunes are on the Web, and as many times as you download top love songs from your favorite artists, experts say writing these types of songs is a daunting task.
“Who we love, how we love, why we love are all subjects that contribute mightily to the way we experience life and yet, surprisingly, most of us understand very little about what love is,” says Pamela Oland, author of ‘The Art of Writing Love Songs.’ “So it is trying to understand the process of falling in love, loving, falling out of love, finding new love and repeating the cycle that dominates our lives, right alongside our work concerns, education, friendships and recreational activities.”
Clearly, the more you know about love, the better romantic songs you will be able to write. If you download loves songs and listen to the lyrics carefully, you will find that all of your favorite artists have examined and analyzed the process of love inside and out. That’s what gives them the ability to write such poignant words that strike and emotional chord in all of us and wind up working their way into the pop culture lexicon. How many women, for instance, looking for love tunes on the Web have passed up the opportunity to download “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor? The lyrics are simply universal in their appeal.
If you want to write love songs, you have to first start investigating love, according to Oland. “Writing love songs will bring out in you the observer, the voyeur, and the lover, and in discovering how to express yourself in your songwriting, you’ll be reintroduced to your passionate core….you will learn to express yourself better in all your love relationships once you have acquired the skill of writing love songs.”
Romantic love is something we have all dreamed about having ever since we were kids, according to Oland. We’ve all read fairytales about charming princes and beautiful princesses falling in love and living happily ever after. That, in part, explains why people are forever comparing love songs and making lists of their favorite love tunes. Interestingly, every list of the best love songs is different, reflecting our own individual experiences with romance. Once you have distilled the essence of your own personal experience, you are ready to write your first love song. It can be fun, enlightening and even painful at times to write love songs, but if you are prepared to tap into your own creativity, intuition and powers of observation, you will find that you come out with tunes you can be proud of.
Whether or not your songs get picked up by a big artist and your fans download love songs you have written off the Web, penning lyrics is an exercise that will provide you with much insight and enlightenment into your own romantic life. You will get a grip on “love” the one subject that dominates and shapes our lives like no other.

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