the dying-out of marriage in music

[DrCube]

Old '97s “Question” is about a marriage proposal.

Isn’t Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” technically about marriage? “If you like it, then you should have put a ring on it”. It’s not about a marriage exactly, but it illustrates that it’s still a thing women aspire to in popular culture.

[Malthus]

@Tom_Tildrum

I thought of this thread this morning when I heard Jethro Tull’s “Too Old To Rock And Roll.” The song seems to view “married with three kids” as essentially a living death.

Good thing Ian Anderson is married but only has two kids.

[JKellyMap]

Sort of midway between “Bus Stop” and Beyoncé would be Nirvana’s “All Apologies”:

I’m married!!

The rest of the lyrics are too poetic to tell what the singer thinks of this fact, but there does seem to be some kind of affection or high regard for the spouse: “I wish I was like you…”

[DrCube]

@JKellyMap

Sort of midway between “Bus Stop” and Beyoncé would be Nirvana’s “All Apologies”:

I’m married!!

The rest of the lyrics are too poetic to tell what the singer thinks of this fact, but there does seem to be some kind of affection or high regard for the spouse: “I wish I was like you…”

It goes “Married… buried”. I assumed Kurt was pondering the fleetingness of life.

[JKellyMap]

@DrCube

It goes “Married… buried”. I assumed Kurt was pondering the fleetingness of life.

Thanks. I didn’t know that. For years, I thought he was just crying out to a girl named Mary. The song still evokes for me memories of a girl named Mary I fell in love with, for about a week, twenty years ago.

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Carly Simon’s “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”:

But you say it’s time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me
Well, that’s the way I’ve always heard it should be
You want to marry me, we’ll marry
Richard Thompson’s “Beeswing”:

And I said that we might settle down
Get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug

Admittedly neither of these sheds a positive light on marriage.
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[USCDiver]

The band Oryx and Crake just released an entire album called Marriage

[G0sp3l]

@Barkis_is_Willin

The first song that came to my mind. Featuring the oh, so romantic line:
“We ain’t getting no younger, we might as well do it.”

The New Romance is [COLOR=“DarkOrchid”][/COLOR]pragmatism**

[xizor]

The lyrics to “Come to me” by Goo Goo Dolls reads like a marriage proposal, and includes the lines

Today’s the day I’ll make you mine
so get me to the church on time
Take my hand in this empty room
You’re my girl, and I’m your groom

[EinsteinsHund]

@Mean_Mr.Mustard

Richard Thompson’s “Beeswing”:

And I said that we might settle down
Get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug

Admittedly neither of these sheds a positive light on marriage.
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To which she replied: “She said ‘Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world, you’ll not own me as well’”

So, not a good line (and not a good song) to advertise traditional marriage ;-). But one of my favorite lines by Richard Thompson.

[F.U.Shakespeare]

@DrCube

It goes “Married… buried”. I assumed Kurt was pondering the fleetingness of life.

Or expressing his opinion on being married to Courtney Love.

[foolsguinea]

Shakira’s “Hey You” came out in 2005. The lyrics are pretty strongly oriented toward a hoped-for marriage–following her seducing the guy “tonight.”

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

@EinsteinsHund

To which she replied: “She said ‘Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world, you’ll not own me as well’”

So, not a good line (and not a good song) to advertise traditional marriage ;-). But one of my favorite lines by Richard Thompson.

One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite songs.
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