Why aren’t there love songs like this anymore?
If that sounds old-fashioned of me, well, it is. I don’t generally care for modern day love songs — many of them lack the sincerity and genuine emotion that classic standards can evoke.
Even if Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday, I can always appreciate a well-crafted love song from a bygone era.
“The Very Thought Of You” has to be one of the loveliest tunes ever penned, and Nat King Cole’s haunting rendition quivers with the emotion that songs today try to achieve and mostly fail.
If we heard someone sing “I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above,” it wouldn’t sound right, would it? Cheesy, eye-rolling, even unoriginal. Yet somehow, with a song like this, it just fits.
Do me a favour: close your eyes and let the marvelous, dreamy arrangement take you away, and if you feel yourself being serenaded by this simple poem of love, just let it happen. Your heart will thank you.
