Dedicated to the One I Love
Song Categories (with matching emotion):
I WILL LOVE AGAIN – WILL MEETING – LONGING THE PROMISE – HOPE LOVING – HAPPINESS SEX – PASSION MISSING – NEED LEAVING – DOUBT HURTING- ANGER SORRY – REGRET BEGGING –DESPERATION OUT OF LOVE- EXHAUSTION TORCH SONG – NOSTALGIA LONESOMENESS – SOLITUDE
Excerpts:
“Never knew love like this before. Baby what about you? Bits of your life, bits of my life slip sliding away satellite of love. Even when you’re far away you send me telepathic love. Escape hatch turn on computer love. When can I see you? We belong together in electric dreams. When a man loves a woman things can only get better. How deep is your love? Would you lay with me in a field of stone?”
“Sunshine of your love funeral in the rain tonight was a disaster. Here I go again down to my last teardrop. Elevator Papa, switchboard mama blue and broken hearted, it must’ve been love.”
“In a more recent example, Lan Tuazon showed a work at the “Summer Mixtape” show at Exit Art that consisted of months of labor. The artist solicited friends to send mp3’s of their favorite love songs, chose 365 of them, and gradually compiled snippets of lyrics into a single, vastly footnoted text that even broke sub-genres of the love song down (and color-coded them). The end result was hilarious and familiar, the excess of labor standing in for love itself (be it of another person, or just good love songs).” – by Daniel Quiles. Read full text on art:21.
