{"id":1243,"date":"2008-01-29T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/01\/29\/bad-love-songs-of-the-1990s\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:29:16","slug":"bad-love-songs-of-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Bad Love Songs of the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I claimed that the 1990s were terrible years for pop songs about love. Then I wondered, was I being too hard on the decade?<\/p>\n

I tell you what: you judge.<\/p>\n

Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (1991)<\/b>
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In 1991 you could not escape this song. Even if you avoided the radio and didn’t turn on your TV, A&M Records would send men into your house to duct tape a Walkman and its earphones to your head. “I can’t help it,” Adams croons as the song swells gently to a crescendo worthy of a bad sex scene in a low-rent romance novel.<\/p>\n

Aerosmith: I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing (1998)<\/b>
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“I could stay awake just to hear you breathing\/Watch you smile while you are sleeping”. Imagine, if you will, that you had a rough day and were asleep moments after you crawled in bed. Then you’re waking up, feeling relaxed and refreshed, ready to face a new day. You open your eyes and your bedroom comes into focus and suddenly in front of you is<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/div>\n

And he tells you he’s been staring at you all night long<\/i>. I also note that Diane Warren, who wrote the song, has said that she originally wrote it for Celine Dion.<\/p>\n

Backstreet Boys: All I Have to Give (1997)<\/b>
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Jonathan Coulton’s song Soft Rocked By Me<\/i><\/a> contains the lyrics, “I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll listen to the things you say about the way you feel \/ I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll smile an understanding smile when your boyfriend calls \/ And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll think of me”. All I Have to Give<\/i> is that passive “but I could love you if you’d let me!” approach taken seriously and somehow going quadruple platinum. This song is the anthem of Nice Guys(tm)<\/a> everywhere.<\/p>\n

Celine Dion: I Want You to Need Me (1999)<\/b>
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Celine Dion should hook up with the Backstreet Boys.<\/p>\n

Kenny Loggins: For the First Time (1997)<\/b>
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A decade after Footloose<\/i> and Danger Zone<\/i>, Kenny Loggins inexplicably reappeared on the charts with this Oscar-nominated song. Eyes, smiles, hands holding hands — there is no cliché safe from Loggins’s muse.<\/p>\n

Mariah Carey: Emotions (1991)<\/b>
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Everything about this song feels carefully and soullessly assembled, despite the number of times she says the word “feel”. And “I feel good, I feel nice”? Her singing may be full of high notes, but the emotions her lover inspires in her are barely two inches off of the floor.<\/p>\n

Extreme: More Than Words (1990)<\/b>
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If you really<\/i> loved me, you’d sleep with me.<\/p>\n

Richard Marx: Now and Forever (1994)<\/b>
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You’re holding a fortune heaven has given to you, huh? I wish you had kept holding it quietly. If you’re low on your RDA of love ballad string sections, this song should help.<\/p>\n

You know, I’ve been hard on the 1990s, but at least it didn’t give us this:<\/p>\n

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