Pop songs with truth: index page and introduction
Start with this explanation page for my “pop songs of truth and love” posts.
It also indexes all these posts.
A tiny fraction of pop songs are different. Sinead O’Connor’s song Thank you for hearing me has this beautiful line:
Thank you for silence with me
Few popular musicians sing about love as communion in silence. And again another beautiful line:
Thank you for breaking my heart
Few popular songs are grateful for the breakup! So this song is special. Some lines hold a some kind of grown-up wisdom or depth of being. This is rare in pop culture. I call these “pop songs of truth and love.” This series of posts is about such songs. Many other so-called inspirational songs – John Lennon’s Imagine, for example – I find shallow or false. (more…)