Analysis Essay Rough Draft

Love?            

    Love love love. What is love? Before the 17 century people were not free to choose who they fell in love with. In fact they were forced into love. Women were considered property to be bought and sold. Marriage was nothing more than bartering for the best deal. People married in class, if you married down that was looked down upon. Then came a great hero in romance. Shakespeare. Sure, before then people were whooing women but Shakespeare was poetry, social commentary, and awesome. No man had done it like quite like him. Now love is no longer purchased. “I don’t care to much for money, cuz money can’t buy me love.” A great social commentary by The Beetles shows that now instead of money people marry for love. However people still marry for money. “Girls don’t like boys girls like cars and money” another social commentary by Good Charlotte. However, arguably the greatest song about love comes from a singer from the 80’s who dared to ask the question “What is Love?” Haddaway dares to ask his lover what love means to her.

The Oxford English Dictionary alone has multiple definitions of this words a few of these are:  A feeling or disposition of deep affection or fondness for someone, typically arising from a recognition of attractive qualities, from natural affinity, or from sympathy and manifesting itself in concern for the other's welfare and pleasure in his or her presence (distinguished from sexual love at sense 4a); great liking, strong emotional attachment; (similarly) a feeling or disposition of benevolent attachment experienced towards a group or category of people, and (by extension) towards one's country or another impersonal object of affection. With of, for, to, towards. Each of these definitions has hundreds of examples and uses. It would appear that love is different to every single human being on the planet.

In the song Haddaway doesn’t understand his lovers interests. “I give you my love but you don’t care.” It seems like he is in a one way relationship. Relationships are a partnership and in this partnership both parties must give equally so things will work out. In the song Haddaway is fallen in love with this girl but it doesn’t feel like she feels the same. Either she is not responding to his love or she is playing him. 

By repeating the chorus and mainly the statement “What is Love” Haddaway is proving that he is confused about he nature of his current love interest. However Haddaway is not the first lyricist to pose this question. Abba, Bonjovi, The Beetles, and many other reputable artists have asked the same question. Philosophers, Anthropologists, and Theologists are also studying to find what love is and how it affects people. How people in society respond, address, and respect love. Love is a defining attribute of many societies. The question is why is there no answer to this question. If everyone is trying to find the answer then why has this quest for knowledge been fulfilled? Well, emotions can never be explained only felt. Love is like chocolate when it enters your mouth give you an overwhelming feeling of happiness. 

Pat Benetar in my opinion explains love best in her song “Love is a Battlefield”.  Through out Haddaway’s song he is describing his inward feelings of his current situation and it sounds like he is fighting a lost cause. In his song Haddaway has fallen in love with someone who is taking his love for granted. They may realize what they had when its gone. Unfortunately this attitude has become commonplace amongst lovers. 

In my opinion love should never be take for granted. People should be fighting for love all over the planet. Unfortunately, like the women mentioned in Haddaway’s piece people are taking advantages of the uses of love. Respect for the word is dying. Instead respecting love they use it for their own pleasures. The purpose of Haddaway’s song was not only to pose a question but bring to light his situation of love. Luckily Haddaway is not alone in his quest we are all searching for love and looking for its true meaning. If we go through life and all we figure out is the power of love I believe that life is successful. That life is one that should be studied and looked upon not thrown away to the vast history to be banished to the back of a sales rack.