Thankfully, not every song that’s written about love is as overly dramatic as “Without You.” Indeed, there exists a plethora of excellent tracks about the topic with more than a touch of realism in their lyrics. You notice that identifying with your favorite characters is not easy all of a sudden – even 007 loses a fraction of his appeal! However, the worst part of this saturation point is not when you notice that you actually side with the principal in Breakfast Club, it’s becoming the that-doesn’t-work-in-real-life guy in your family when it comes to movies and the utter wet blanket when it comes to love songs, laughing sarcastically when the rest of the family sings along with Badfinger’s “Without You” at breakfast, thinking, “Somebody should tell that guy that there’s plenty of fish in the sea.” So as you age, listening to love songs with a straight face becomes a tad difficult, an experience that can be compared to watching movies you adored when you were a teenager – they just don’t seem to work anymore.
And the older you get, the less they resonate with you because you know that while falling in love might be fun and easy, staying in love is all about hard work and determination. There are so many love songs out there in the cosmos – perhaps a zillion.