Selling Heartbeats

The music industry is attempting to sell the world heartbeats. Music enables some people to feel different things. A fantastically written song can cause great emotion. But all those sappy love songs that blare across air-waves from here to the Golden Coast all have a hook: they make you desire something; they make you fall in love if you aren't already in it; they cause you to feel weightless if you are already in love. Silly love songs will be the death of this nation. Why? Because if you hear the perfect love song pouring from your ear-buds and have no one to sing it to, doesn't a tiny piece of your soul die? I know mine does. I am slowly losing the ability to love love songs. I am slowly losing the ability to feel a speck of hope from songs like "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith, "I Will" by The Beatles, "Beautiful To Me" by Jaron and the Long Road to Love. Even my favorite love song of all time has a hook that makes insipid teenage hopeless romantics like me get my hopes up too high. My favorite love song is trying to sell me a reason for my heart to beat. Sad.