love ballads
Tender musical declarations
Love ballads are slow, romantic songs expressing deep emotion—longing, devotion, heartbreak, or passion.
The term spans genres from medieval poetry to power ballads of the 1980s to contemporary R&B.
A love ballad typically features melodic vocals over sparse or sweeping instrumentation: They danced to their favorite love ballad at the wedding.
- torch songSentimental song of longing
- serenadeOutdoor romantic performance
- heartbreakCrushing emotional pain
- broken heartEmotional pain from loss
- romanceLove and its excitement
devotion · passion · slow jam · yearning · aria · melancholy · chanson · duet · longing · tenderness · sentimental songs · croon · soft rock · wedding songs · nostalgia · lullabies · slow dance · dance floor
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- romanceamor, boyfriend, courting, girlfriend, besos
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk singers
- oldiesElvis, golden oldies, Hound Dog, oldies, Johnny B. Goode
- balladsballads, balladry, power ballads, pop ballads, country ballads
- folk songstraditional songs, folk ballads, work songs, lullaby, shanty
love balladsclub bangers
High-energy dance tracks
thrash metal · hardcore punk · techno · drum and bass · house music
love balladsdiss tracks
Songs mocking rivals
protest songs · war songs · fight songs · battle hymns · drinking songs
love balladscrowd chants
Synchronized mass vocalizations
arena rock · rally songs · anthems · stadium rock · singalongs