1. Everyone else will be, you don’t want to follow the crowd do you?
2. Love is a cliché – songwriters have been writing about love for centuries
3. Love songs aren’t moving – the shallowest of songs are the ones that say ‘I Love You’. I don’t know why it is that so profound an emotion should be so unconvincing when put into words, but I’ve never heard a love song that convinced me of the singer’s sentiments
4. There are more interesting subjects to write about. Why not hate, or mystery? Why not a song about the sasquatch or the ancient Sumerians?
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5. If you write a song about unrequited love, or disturbed obsession, chances are people will listen with half an ear and thing you’ve written a love song anyway. If it’s catchy enough, they might even play it at their wedding.
6. There are only so many rhymes, and I’m afraid ‘together’ and ‘forever’ have been used together before.