These albums are sure to break the date
It’s February 14th. The dinner has been eaten, the date went well and the evening has progressed into a state of sheer, passionate romance.
There’s a request for music, but wait, tuning into the wrong genre is sure to kill any mood. Don’t get stood up because you decided to flip on one of these albums to accompany a Valentine’s Day celebration.
Masen Matthews
Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
This band is the face of pimple-faced, socially awkward high school students. Seriously, don’t let them represent a Valentine’s Day failure. Blink-182 is great, but the time and place to rock out to three grown men singing about breakups, farting and getting drunk is not the night of Valentine’s Day. Shelf this one until the atmosphere is a bit more casual.
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Bon Iver is a beautiful band, but Valentine’s Day isn’t the right time for it, unless a couple defines romance by crying into their lover’s shirt. If this is the route you want to take, maybe save a few dollars from dinner and pick up a box of tissues on the way home. Valentine’s Day is all about raw emotion, but those emotions should focus around love, not around depressing lyrical themes.
Dr. Dre – 2001
There’s nothing romantic about a Rasta flag in the bedroom above a nightstand covered in stacks of old lighters and magazines. Consequently, Dr. Dre probably isn’t going to fit well when someone is trying to be a loving, thoughtful individual for a whole day. Maybe it’s the classic rap beats that won’t do it, or perhaps it’s the extremely misogynistic lyrics, but there’s no denying an album made up of Dr. Dre and Eminem rapping back-and-forth about doing drugs and killing people isn’t seductive.
Taylor Swift – 1989
With so many references to bad relationships, bad dates and bad encounters in her lyrics, Taylor Swift should stay out of everyone’s love life entirely. In all fairness, her music is fun enough. It certainly isn’t the worst thing someone could choose, but do you really want to tempt fate? Better to keep Swift’s luck with relationships away … far, far away.
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