love songs

Music about romance

Love songs are songs about romantic love—its joys, longings, and heartbreaks.

The category spans virtually every musical genre and era, from medieval ballads to contemporary pop.

A love song may celebrate union, mourn loss, or ache with desire.

The term sometimes carries a slightly dismissive tone, as if such songs are predictable or sentimental: All he writes are love songs.

Opposites
emotional content

love songsbreakup songs

Music about romantic endings

heartbreak ballads · torch songs · goodbye songs

subject matter

love songsdiss tracks

Songs mocking rivals

protest songs · instrumental music · war songs · battle hymns · murder ballads

Family

love, song, lovely, loving, loved, lover, beloved, lovers, unloved

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G