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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I'm only just catching up on your columns, having been too knackered/angsty to read anything longer than about three words over the summer, so I don't know if you've addressed this in previous one but from the current one: what interested me from it was the idea of parity between the artist and the listener. Err, I am slightly too drunk to explain this idea.