Clumsy title, I know. What I mean are songs that, when you hear them you can picture the artist writing them with the intention that they’ll be that year’s most popular wedding song. Think The Carpenters’ We’ve Only just Begun.
What got me to thinking about this is Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud. Holy crap, I can just see the light bulb appearing above his ginger head
" *everyone *will want to this for the first dance at their wedding. I’ll be immortalized!"
Just kidding about the last part; I have no basis to think Mr. Sheeran is an egotistical wanker. Also, I think it’s a really pretty song, aside from the awkward lyric “… will your mouth still remember the taste of my love” :eek: or the equally stupid “… will
your eyes still smile from your cheeks” :rolleyes: And while I’m at it, if someone were to tell me my soul will never grow old I would *not *take it as a compliment.
Okay, maybe I don’t like the song as much as thought. In any event, can you think of any song that is a more blatant attempt at getting wedding play?
When we did our reaffirmation of vows for our 6th anniversary (we eloped and it took 6 years before we could afford to do a party) my BIL sang something called Wedding Hymn which was just that. However, it never was and never will be something you’ll hear on the radio, tho one might see it in a hymnal.
I feel like a lot of those country music songs about daddies and daughters are blatant wedding songs - i.e. “Butterfly Kisses”, “I Loved Her First,” blah blah blah.
Ah, good one (well, *bad *one actually). I don’t mean songs that are *overtly *written for weddings, but ones where when you hear it you can picture the happy couple gazing into each other eyes and circling the dance floor and you get the feeling the writer knew that would be the effect but doesn’t say it directly (if that makes sense).
How about Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” from his incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Now there’s a song with a lot of wedding play!
Now that you mention it, I have a very vague (I would have been about 4 at the time) memory of this commercial. Maybe that’s what made me think of it.
And Smapti, where did you hear that *You’re Beautiful *is about suicide? Not that I don’t believe you; it would just make it doubly funny that a song containing the line " . . cause I’ll never be with you" *and *is actually about suicide is peoples’ wedding song.
“Come to me” by the Goo Goo Dolls sounds like obvious wedding bait to me.
And I can’t link to youtube at work, but Maroon 5’s new song “Sugar” is so blatant the video shows the band going around crashing weddings to sing the song to the various happy couples.
Sometimes I feel like Ben Folds’ “The Luckiest” was written for weddings, sometimes not (not, because it’s got some weird lyrics). It’s utterly slow-dance-able and has a hook that would make your grandma smile.
I’d say it’s pretty self-evident from the lyrics of the song about how he’s “got a plan”, to say nothing of the imagery in the video, linked upthread;
Considering that the same album (Back to Bedlam, which is one of my favorite pop albums of the past decade) has songs about adultery and/or a dead spouse (Goodbye My Lover), clinical depression (Tears and Rain), and the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo (No Bravery), it’s a safe bet to say that the meaning of its lead single was anything but happy and upbeat.
