Rules Of The Game #15: Grown-ups Make Puppy Love

[koganbot]

Latest column: why teens sing adult lyrics: a theory (which is that it's the other way around); also, Britney as the little engine that couldn't.

The Rules Of The Game #15: Grown-ups Make Puppy Love

Once again they botched the italics. And I just spent five minutes debating with myself as to whether it should be "Grown-ups" or "Grown-Ups." (Oh, and I know that JoJo is actually 16 not 15, but she was 15 when her second album was recorded and released, and I couldn't be bothered to explain this.)

So, any opinion as to why love and romance lyrics overwhelmingly dominate pop music?

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

V tired, brain turning to mush, must post lj comment

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think music, books, films, telly/soaps, ballet, whatever, are way more commonly consumed for escapism than e.g. understanding a political message/passing the time. Explosions! Defeat the baddies! Kiss the girl! Things that don't usually happen in real life. There are less songs about aubergines because aubergines DO happen in real life. Lovelives are very difficult to get right (even harder than aubergines), and most people need to believe that a great relationship (or an exciting one) can indeed happen. Or need commiseration when it goes wrong (which is often).

Re: V tired, brain turning to mush, must post lj comment

[koganbot]

Kiss the girl happens less often than aubergines? I like your last couple of statements.

Lovelives are very difficult to get right (even harder than aubergines), and most people need to believe that a great relationship (or an exciting one) can indeed happen. Or need commiseration when it goes wrong (which is often

This is one reason that escapism often ends up with deep content - kind of without trying - when it addresses romance.