Silly baby talk songs became popular as well as some songs expressing annoyance or derision towards baby talk. The dance floor proved to be a place of courtship where the girl determines the choice of partner. However, as American society was continuing to mature in the twentieth century, so were the topics in the lyrics of love songs. Song lyrics also continued to include the subject of courtship and describing amusing situations that could arise is there are miscommunications between the sexes, and consequently what men have to do to console their girls. Sentiment, sadness and nostalgia, emotional content which had been popular in songs of the 1890s and 1900, were common along with the sorts of grandiose expressions professing one’s love which were also common throughout the previous decade. The love song of the 1910s has a number of lyrical styling and themes leftover from the previous decade, but also a few innovations. Such was the case of the love song during the 1910s, when the sentimental love songs of the 1900s remained, but with new and novel ways in which the genders interact. As time progresses, certain varieties of love songs, have the same sorts of general subjects and how love affects the relations between people, but these aspect slowly change to fit the relative social era. The common expression in song lyrics from the 1970s and 1980s, “making love,” is not commonly heard during the current era of pop songs during the twenty-first century. The latter can seem risqué and provocative and the former can seem dated and antiquated, even though there are less than two decades apart in age the two songs are about the same time, sex, but in completely different styles and vocabulary. You do or you don’t or you will or won’tcha Phone before you come, I need to shave my chocha Compare the first song, Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson’s “Friends and Lovers” from 1986 in the Modern Pop Era to Missy Elliot’s “Work It” from 2002 during the Club Banger Era: Note the following big pop hits from female artists on the relatively modern musical cousin of love songs, the hook-up song where there is relatively little concern for emotional attachment beyond a sexual encounter. While the general theme of love songs has not significantly changed in their sentiment, the modernizations of attitudes towards gender relations certainly have.
Well before the commercial pop business of American Tin Pan Alley, love has been a popular topic of music reaching from Renaissance times of fifteenth century Europe through to the grand operas of the nineteenth century.
Throughout the history of commercial pop songs, love songs have undoubtedly had the greatest overall popularity and longevity.
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