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Taylor Swift: Today Was A Fairytale
A classic Taylor Swift number, this one was penned for the 2010 movie, Valentine’s Day, narrating a story of a teenage romance.
Lyrical moment: Time slows down/ Whenever you’re around/ Can you feel this magic in the air?
The Cardigans: Lovefool
Sexy to the point of being a guilty pleasure is this message of asking the wrong man to stay.
Lyrical moment: Reason will not lead to solution/I will end up lost in confusion/I don’t care if you really care/ As long as you don’t go.
Alicia Keys: Fallin’
She sings of falling in and out of love. What will it be this V-Day?
Lyrical moment: I never felt this way/ How do you give me so much pleasure/ And cause me so much pain/ Just when I think/ I’ve taken more than would a fool/ I start fallin’ back in love with you.
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
Enchanting, soulful, and laidback. Can be enjoyed a zillion playbacks later.
Lyrical moment: Come away with me and we’ll kiss/ On a mountain top/ Come away with me/ And I’ll never stop loving you.
Kacey Musgraves: Follow Your Arrow
Right and wrong are words that just play in your head, especially the rebellious stuff from country girl Kacey.
Lyrical moment: Say what you think/ Love who you love/ ’Cause you just get/ So many trips ’round the sun.
Camila Cabello: Havana
All the sunny beats are there in this song and all the sunny moods have been captured in its video. The telenovelainspired video has Camila playing several roles, including the heroine of a spicy telenovela as well as the young woman watching the show, Karla. Sexy vocals for a sexy video.
Lyrical moment: He didn’t walk up with that ‘how you doin’?’/ When he came in the room/ He said there’s a lot of girls I can do with/ But I can’t without you/ I knew him forever in a minute
Adele: Set Fire To The Rain
The contradictions that come with love get a royal treatment from Adele.
Lyrical moment: My hands, they were strong/ But my knees were far too weak/ To stand in your arms without falling to your feet
(L-R)Norah Jones, Kacey Musgraves
(L-R) Camila Cabello, The Cardigans
Taylor Swift
(L-R) Bruno Mars Shawn Mendes
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Bruno Mars: Just The Way You Are
Like Bruno said about the song: “Get ready to fall in love. Tell her how beautiful she is.”
Lyrical moment: Her lips, her lips/I could kiss them all day if she’d let me/ Her laugh, her laugh/ She hates but I think it’s so sexy.
James Blunt: You’re Beautiful
How can a soldier who was posted in Kosovo sing this crooners’ delight? Evergreen.
Lyrical moment: You’re beautiful, it’s true. I saw your face in a crowded place, and I don’t know what to do.
Coldplay: Yellow
Even if the word ‘yellow’ has been used randomly (inspired by the colour of the telephone directory!), it’s a song for those in love but not going mush-mush.
Lyrical moment: For you I’d bleed myself dry/ It’s true/ Look at the stars/ Look how they shine for you.
Lady Antebellum: Need You Now
Love can be confusing, a turmoil. And this Grammy winner says it all.
Lyrical moment: Another shot of whisky/ Can’t stop looking at the door/ Wishing you’d come sweeping/ In the way you did before.
Harry Styles: Adore You
Like the man said: “It’s kind of about that initial I guess euphoria of when you start seeing someone or sleeping with someone or just like being around someone and you have that kind of excitement about them.”
Lyrical moment: I would walk through fire for you/ Just let me adore you
Justin Bieber: Yummy
The melody keeps bouncing and the lyrics vaguely point to a world of sexual pleasure.
Lyrical moment: Fifty-fifty, love the way you split it/ Hundred racks, help me spend it, babe/ Light a match, get litty, babe/ That jet set, watch the sunset kinda, yeah/ Rollin’ eyes back in my head, make my toes curl.
Shawn Mendes: Lights On
The romantic agony is clearly visible in the lyrics while the melodic and rhythmic bait keeps us returning to the track.
Lyrical moment: I wanna love you with the lights on/ Keep you up all night long / Darling, I wanna see every inch of you / I get lost in the way you move…
(L-R) Justin Bieber, Harry Styles
(L-R) James Blunt,Chris Martin of Coldplay
Lady Antebellum