Music meme: day 26 of 30

[liv]

I am a ridiculously stubborn completionist, so I want to do the last four days of this 30-day meme that has taken me over a year so far.

I'm up to A song that makes you want to fall in love, and my immediate reaction to the prompt was, I don't really want to fall in love. I mostly agree with the pre-Modern idea that falling in love is a kind of mild mental illness. I want to love people, I want to have lifelong loving relationships with partners, friends and family, but I don't want to fall into being all giddy and hormonal whenever I see a person. Also I am poly-saturated: if I fell in love with any new people now, I'm sure we'd all cope, but it would be kind of annoying because I'd be distracted by a person I don't have any time or energy for.

I've always been somewhat drawn towards the kind of falling in love where you are optimistic about working together towards a cause. Perhaps that's best exemplified by אני ואתה:

You and I will change the world
You and I, and then everyone will join us
They've said it before, but it doesn't matter
You and I will change the world

The thing about that sort of love is that it doesn't at all have to be romantic, it can be a close friendship or just a really good partnership. But if someone evokes that feeling in me and I'm otherwise romantically compatible with them, I quite often will fall for them.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, there's this wonderful song by Hazel O'Connor, Will you?, which is about the exact moment of falling in love. Though it's possible to interpret as being mainly about lust and sex.

And then we touch
Much too much
This moment has been waiting for a long, long time
Makes me shiver
Makes me quiver
This moment I am so unsure
This moment I've been waiting for
Is it something you've been waiting for
Waiting for too?

I think my actual pick is going to be a song that was played to me by someone I was already in love with, and it's not all the style of music I usually prefer, but it expresses the idea of what I want out of being in love: All of me by John Legend. It's about a kind of love that's being really seen for who you are, and appreciated. I particularly like:

Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections

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Comments

[angelofthenorth]

Awwww.

[jack]

"I am a ridiculously stubborn completionist, so I want to do the last four days of this 30-day meme that has taken me over a year so far."

Aww, yay you *hugs*

[cjwatson]

I hadn't heard that Legend song before and it's really lovely - thank you.