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Article: Love Drunk
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- Philadelphia Weekly
- Article date:
- February 13, 2008
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Old-fashioned love songs are anything but.
A great Trinidadian intellectual named Haddaway once asked, "What is love?" Over the years, plenty music artists have given this oh-so-important query a go.
For Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. For Linda Ronstadt, it is a rose. For Frank Sinatra, it is a tender trap.
Love bites. Love stinks. Love is all you need. Love is in the air. Love, love, love. Let's talk about love.
Might as well face it, you're addicted to the stuff. And that's okay. We all are.
Love is for suckers, and we're all suckers for love. It's one thing we all share. We've all been floored by it, overjoyed by it, giddy with it, in awe of it. We've been scarred by it, crushed by ...