Well, I dunno, but I’m sure there’d be a whole lot LESS of it.
Think about how much music’s been written about:
Love
True Love
Unrequited Love
Kinky Love
Lost Love
Psycho Love
Gay Love (I’m thinkin Erasure here…and pretty much every other group I loved in the 80’s)
Oh, I’m sure somebody lurves Opal.
Oh yeah, I’m gonna getsome love.
Why is it that the human psyche can listen to lots and lots and lots of music…all of it about the same single concept? (and feel free to add different types of any kinda love you can think of.)
You are missing religous or spiritual love. Love of man for God, and love of God for man.
You know “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so”
and “If you don’t love God then you don’t love your neighbor. . . If you don’t love your neighbor then you don’t love God” --might be a popular song, or just a Bluegrass song, I’m really not sure, but it stuck in my head for days.
and “I love you, Lord, and I give my life, to worship you, O my Lord”
While I don’t know that “love” was ever a word that came up when playing Encore? (the game where teams take turns singing parts of songs with particular words in them) at least one non-Christian friend didn’t know whether to be happy or frustrated when we’d go back and forth singing songs with “worship” or “bow” or “shine” in them. He accused us at least once of making stuff up–we denied it.
? That’s not true at all. My least favorite types of lyrics are those listed in the OP, though if the song itself is strong enough, I can tolerate those kinds of lyrics. Given my druthers though, I’d rather have songs about anything BUT love/lack of love/heartache because of love, and they’re easy to find if you know where to look. All my favorite artists write mainly about topics other than love. One of them has 11 albums recorded, 130 songs including non-album songs, and out of all those songs, only a handful are love/lack of love/heartbreak songs, and even those are usually from a very bizarre (non-autobiographical!) point of view, such as “Take Me With You” about a woman begging her boyfriend to commit murder/suicide, or “Case of Glass” where the character wants to keep her lover locked up so she can gaze upon him and “keep him safe,” or “Tragic” about how a couple of losers are drawn to each other. She’s mainly a storyteller, or writes about emotions other than love.
Unless of course you mean artists who write and sing and play because making music is what they love, not that the lyrics have to do with love. Then I’d agree with you.