Writing Love Songs

I've been told lately that I've written a lot of "love songs," and I just wanted to address a few things.

One, I've never actually been in love. I've loved friends, I've loved family, and I've loved exes. But I have never felt the sort of attraction/infatuation in a girl as though I couldn't bare my life without her; nobody has ever really been that irreplaceable to me. So the term "LOVE song" is hardly applicable to some of the shit you've heard from me; I mean, just listen to "love actually" haha.

Two, as gay as it may sound, that's what people want to hear. I don't think people can relate to any conflict in music material better than to the chase/release of a member of the opposite gender. Love, as a concept, is the ONLY reason that R & B even exists as a genre. It's the reason Frank Ocean has such a wide fanbase, and the reason that I used to only play country songs when I had my girl in the car. It's the preferred music of most in the summer time, and it's the most widely quoted concept, lyrically, on Twitter.

Three, I have never really constructed a song (except for on this next tape, in which you haven't yet heard) that was aimed towards pleasing a girl I liked. I've either written pieces out of bitterness towards an ex, or describing a feeling I used to feel and how I've moved past it. In other words, I don't write a song as a means of getting pussy; I write them in an attempt to make music/projects more relatable to an audience.

I'm not Shakespeare... dick

-Jack