I am so gay

[sampants]

So a couple of weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly came out with a list of the 50 best love songs. I decided to use some of the songs on the list (plus a few that I chose) to make a love song mix

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[darth_vin]

That's almost one of the worst lists of "romantic" songs ever.

[sampants]

Maybe you should write a letter to the editors of Entertainment Weekly telling them that.

[sampants]

P.S. I am very open to any song suggestions, so if you know better ones, please share. I picked those because I like them. I know there are many more choices that are considered standards, but I don't like a lot of those. An example of one of the songs I hate is More Than Words by Extreme. *gags*

[darth_vin]

Really? I would have figured "More Than Words" would be right up your alley, since you think John Mayer songs are romantic. They're pretty much all about the same thing.

[sampants]

I think John Mayer songs are romantic, but I don't like them. I don't want romantic for romantic's sake.

And..ha ha. iTunes has that John Mayer song that you said was unromantic and only about fucking as one of the all-time top romantic songs. So there.

[darth_vin]

iTunes is also created by the same people that make Macintosh computers.

So there.

[sampants]

I doubt the programmers are making the song lists. It's done by EXPERTS!!!! Love song experts.

And I can't stand apple computers, but damn, Joey's iPod is the niftiest thing in the world.

[darth_vin]

Yeah, I still don't get why people want those things. I mean, sure, I wanted a Walkman when I was, like, 10-years-old.

[sampants]

You are silly.

[darth_vin]

Do you somehow think that because somebody works for Entertainment Weekly, they know more about "romance" than other people?

Let me tell you something, journalists are stupid. And those people aren't even journalists.

Half the songs you listed have fast beats and use pentatonic scales. They create tension in your body when you're listening to them, which somebody like you who has lived a very sheltered and protected life would see as exciting. That excitment translates to eroticism to you, which you are mistaking for romance.

[sampants]

I think it is odd that you separate love and sex. They aren't always mutually exclusive.

[darth_vin]

Love is not defined by sex, though.

Sex and love aren't mutually exclusive in the same way that watching a movie together and love aren't mutually exclusive, or that walking down the road together and love aren't mutually exclusive.

Sex holds no monopoly on love. There are lots of things besides sex that people do with somebody they love that they wouldn't do with somebody they didn't love. And there are lots of people that have sex that don't love each other.

[sampants]

My point is that an upbeat sexy song can also be linked to love. Sex does not eliminate love, which your post seemed to imply. Eroticism and romance can go together quite well.

[darth_vin]

And my point is that those songs by John Mayer and Extreme are exclusively about sex, not love or romance. You are just automatically associating that a song about sex means it's about romance and love, which it is not.

[sampants]

Just once it would be nice to argue with you without you making huge leaps of logic.