Love Songs

I can’t say that I am familiar with any of Aimee Mann’s songs. Her kind of music is not really the type of music that I am interested in, but I found her lyrics to be rather interesting. It wasn’t one of those traditional love songs. It was different in its own way, but it was still a love song. The title of the song pretty much sums up the entire message of what it is that she is trying to say. The title of her song is “Save Me.” She wishes to be rescued, from the people that she calls “freaks” or in other words, those that believe that they could never fall in love. The theme in this song does deal with love, but it also deals with escaping from the kinds of people that she doesn’t see eye to eye with. So she sees this person as the kind of man that would fit the role of being her Superman. I went online to search for others of her songs, to see if there is some sort of common thread to her song writing style. One song that I looked up was entitled, “Red Vines.” When I think of Red Vines I think of licorice, and I’m guessing that is what she is referring to as well. Not sure where licorice fits into the picture but whatever. In comparing this song with “Save Me,” I see some similarities between the two of them. It is another type of love song, sort of like the first. It isn’t one of those traditional love songs, where it talks about all those happy and bubbly feelings that people in love experience. This song sort of has a sad tone to it. In this song she describes herself standing on the sidelines and watching another couple that is in love. To me it seems as if she is saying that everyone else sees them as a perfect and happy couple, but for whatever reason she knows otherwise. Another one of her songs that I looked at was called “Calling It Quits.” This song also deals with relationships, but this one starts out sort of like a warning against a certain kind of guy that can and will take advantage of a woman. Then throughout the songs she is telling us that she isn’t taking any more of it and she is going to go ahead and call it quits. The last song of hers that I looked up was called, “Deathly.” Just from looking at the title, I could gain a sense of what she would be talking about. This song is talking about the negative side of relationships. Then it goes into how she walked away from the poor relationship she was in, and she was so determined to stay away, she would rather have somebody shoot her with a gun, and stop her, than for her to go back into that relationship. So to sum it all up I’d say the general theme that I saw in Aimee Mann’s songs were love, but more of the negative sides to it. I saw that it went more into the bad that can come out of a poor relationship.