The straight-laced 1950s weren’t known for their flourishing gay culture. The Lavender Scare was forcing queer people out of their jobs in droves, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness, ...

From the listener’s point of view, the answer to the question what makes a perfect love song is easy. It’s a song that melts your heart, unlocking feelings that surprise you because they’ve been ...

Country music is known for celebrating two things: real life and love. From classic heartwarming ballads by Conway Twitty, George Jones and Loretta Lynn (Read about her biopic here), to current hits ...

If you look at the Top 10 songs on the Billboard charts, odds are you’ll find nary a love song. Tracks about heartbreak, friendship and self-empowerment abound, but straightforward ballads about ...

The universal language of music has united generations of lovers since the beginning of time. Falling in and out of love, grasping at unrequited love, mourning love lost and succumbing to deep love ...