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🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love [📷: Andrea Piacquadio, Brent Faulkner, Igor Korzh, Ketut Subiyanto, Leonardo Aleixo Pires, Misha Earle, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Polina Tankilevitch, RODNAE Productions, Ron Lach]
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🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love [📷: Andrea Piacquadio, Brent Faulkner, Igor Korzh, Ketut Subiyanto, Leonardo Aleixo Pires, Misha Earle, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Polina Tankilevitch, RODNAE Productions, Ron Lach]🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love [📷: Andrea Piacquadio, Brent Faulkner, Igor Korzh, Ketut Subiyanto, Leonardo Aleixo Pires, Misha Earle, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Polina Tankilevitch, RODNAE Productions, Ron Lach]🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love 💘 features Justin Bieber, Mary J. Blige, Mitski, Summer Walker & The Weeknd.

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ove is always a great theme for a playlist – it’s universal.  Back in December 2021, The Musical Hype ran with this broad, relatable topic on 🎧 15 Songs Filled with Considerable Love.  As you’d expect, finding 15 songs about love was easy to the nth degree. So, if it was easy one time, how about compiling yet another list of love-centric songs?  The inspiration, two months after the last love-driven list is Valentine’s Day 2022!  That is the genesis – the publication date – for 🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love 💘.

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🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love 💘 features songs from 🎙 Justin Bieber (2x), 🎙 Mary J. Blige (also, 2x), 🎙 Mitski, 🎙 Summer Walker, and 🎙 The Weeknd among others. Stylistically, the compendium encompasses alternative, pop, and R&B. So, without further ado, let’s embrace this love-centric sequel!

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1. Mary J. Blige, “Failing in Love”

💿 Good Morning Gorgeous • Mary Jane Productions Inc. / 300 Entertainment • 🗓 2022

“So close to givin’ up / When you stay, you’re fuckin’ up.” Da-yum! Love plagues the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, 🎙 Mary J. Blige, throughout her 14th (or 15th, depending on how you count) album, 💿 Good Morning Gorgeous. Among the truly elite moments – the crème de la crème – is 🎵 “Failing in Love.”  I see what you did there, MJB! Of course, how could love work out considering that “From a boy to a man, still never grew up.” That’s a problem!

Producer extraordinaire 🎛 London on da Track and 🎛 Slimwav set up Blige for surefire success, NO CAP.  Here, MJB wants to find success in the love department but continues failing time and time again. “Not gettin’ any rest,” she asserts in the second verse, continuing, “‘Cause this love has been a headache /… It used to be fun /…. Now it’s just aa mess.” Her pain, of course, is our listening pleasure on this incredibly relatable number.  In the pre-chorus, she admits to being ‘in’ and ‘out,’ including the urge to commit arson: “Ooh, I’m passin’ your house / Got me wantin’ to burn it to the ground.” Mercy!

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2. The Weeknd, “How Do I Make You Love Me?”

💿 Dawn FM • 🏷 Republic • 🗓 2022 

“I’ll fix you mushroom tea / And cross the restless sea.” Mushroom tea, huh? Sounds like 🎙 The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) is serving up drugs on 🎵 “How Do I Make You Love Me?” “How Do I Make You Love Me?” is one of many gems from the 🏆 Grammy winner’s 2022 album, 💿 Dawn FM.  Of course, the ultra-slickly-produced (Tesfaye, 🎛 Oscar Holter, 🎛 Matt Cohn, 🎛 Swedish House Mafia, 🎛 Max Martin and 🎛 Oneohtrix Point Never), synthpop gem isn’t about psychedelic mushrooms but rather about winning her affection. 

According to Tesfaye, he’s willing to “teach you how to shine.” Woo! He later adds, “Light you up again / Like embers of a fire.” Like 🎵 “Gasoline” that precedes it, the Canadian R&B/pop superstar is on autopilot.  One of the coolest aspects of “How Do I Make You Love Me?” is how the groove segues into one of the album’s best songs, 🎵 “Take My Breath”.  Of course, we should highlight that infectious chorus too!

“How do I make you love me?

How do I make you fall for me?

How do I make you want me

And make it last eternally?”

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3. Adele, “My Little Love”

💿 30 • 🏷 Melted Stone / Columbia • 📅 2021

“I’m holdin’ on (Barely) / Mama’s got a lot to learn (It’s heavy).” In the context of 💿 30, the fourth studio album by 🏆 Academy/Grammy award winner 🎙 Adele, 🎵 “My Little Love” has a tall task: following up “Easy on Me”. Despite this tough draw, “My Little Love” ends up being awesome itself.  As she does throughout 30, Adele allows herself to be vulnerable, sharing her vulnerabilities with her son, Angelo, and musically, with the world.

“I wanted you to have everything I never had,” she sings to Angelo in the third verse. She continues, “I’m so sorry if what I’ve done makes you feel sad.” Essentially, she asserts, “Mama’s got a lot to learn,” regarding being the best mother and as a person who’s imperfect like everyone else.  One of the coolest features of this “My Little Love” are the conversations incorporated with her son.  “Tell me you love me,” Adele says to Angelo, who responds, “I love you a million percent.” How sweet! “My Little Love” is worth every second of it’s six-and-a-half-minute duration.

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4. Justin Bieber, “Love You Different” (Ft. BEAM)

💿 Justice • 🏷 Def Jam • 📅 2021

“I will love you different / Just the way you are / And I will love you different.” Fair enough, 🎙 Justin Bieber. Following his chill, no. 1 hit 🎵 “Peaches” from his 2021, 🏆 Grammy-nominated album, 💿 Justice, the 🏆 Grammy winner has plans to 🎵 “Love You Different.”  Why? Well, apparently, she’s the one.  “When we touch,” he gushes on the first verse, “I think we skip a beat (Beep, beep, beep).”

Something that is specifically different about “Love You Different” is the sound, which embraces sleek, tropical pop.  In fact, it’s one of a couple of records from Justice that integrate some international flavor. Confirming the topical, Jamaican tinged sound is a guest appearance by 🎙 BEAM, who guests on the third verse (“A real ting we feel this time / You gimme goosebumps, yeah, yeah”).  The record is catchy, even if it doesn’t quite reach the top echelon of Justice.

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5. Summer Walker, “No Love” (Ft. SZA)

💿 Still Over It • 🏷 LRVN / Interscope • 📅 2021

“But if I had you back, all I wanna do is fuck / Get drunk, take drugs…” Um, okay 🎙 Summer Walker – you do you boo! In the chorus of her 💿 Still Over It standout, 🎵 “No Love,” the R&B standout adds, “All lust, there will be no lovin’ you.” So, basically, Summer doesn’t want to get in her feelings, getting emotionally attached – she just wants to have fun.

Walker is joined by 🏆 Grammy-nominated R&B artist, 🎙 SZA, who provides her own rationale for “No Love.” “If I did it all again / I would give, like ten percent,” she sings, continuing, “You deserve, like, half of that / I’ma need my money back.” Damn, he must’ve really did her wrong! Of course, like her ‘sista in crime,’ it’s about pleasure without attachment: “Give me what I want, I don’t need it / Just CC me, just VV me, just that dick when I call / No more feelings involved, I done seen all I need to.”  Summer ends up dropping a third verse, where she’s clearly – wait for it – STILL OVER IT!  “Funny now that you callin’, that you ringin’ my line /… Tell me what’s changed, is it my status? Is it my fame/ Is it my pockets? Is it my change?”  “No Love” is a must hear, especially with that smooth production work by 🎛 FORTHENIGHT & 🎛 Sonni (BR). 

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6. Lewis Capaldi, “Someone You Loved”

💿 Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent • 🏷 Universal Music • 📅 2019

🎵 “Someone You Loved,” from the 2019 album, 💿 Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, is indisputably 🎙 Lewis Capaldi’s mainstream breakthrough.  The former number one is a gorgeous, piano ballad that places emphasis on the Scottish singer’s prodigious vocals.  Perhaps this review sounds like a broken record, but Capaldi possesses a ‘once in a generation’ voice that has a hypnotic, mesmerizing quality.  Additionally, “Someone You Loved” is simply a well-written song.

“I’m going under, and this time, I fear there’s no one to save me,” he sings in the first verse. He later adds, “I need somebody to heal, somebody to know / Somebody to have, somebody, to hold.”  As compelling as the verse lyrics are, the chorus marks the most memorable and elite moment of this 🏆 Grammy-nominated gem. 

“Now, the day bleeds into nightfall

And you’re not here to get me through it all

I let my guard down and then you pulled the rug

I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved.”

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7. Mitski, “Love Me More”

💿 Laurel Hell • 🏷 Dead Oceans • 📅 2022

“If I keep myself at home / I won’t make the same mistake / That I made for fifteen years.” Hmm, intriguing 🎙 Mitksi (Mitski Miyawaki).  On 🎵 “Love Me More,” a highlight from her 2022 album, 💿 Laurel Hell, the singer/songwriter goes deep.  Furthermore, she’s vulnerable, referencing her problems, loneliness, monotony, and of course, the need for L-O-V-E.

Analyzing “Love Me More” effectively might take a while. Why? Well, so many of the lyrical passages carry tremendous weight or require more context.  That, of course, speaks of the brilliance of the songwriting (Miyawaki is a beast). One extremely compelling lyric: “But when I’m done singing this song / I will have to find something else / To do to keep me here.” Deep, deep, deep! Generally, “Love Me More” highlights the importance of love (however you’d like to interpret it) and how it makes you feel better and stronger.  There’s no better example of the significance of love on Mitski than the chorus:

“I need you to love me more

Love me more, love me more

Love enough to fill me up

Fill me up, fill me up

… Love enough to drown it out

Drown it out, drown me out.”

What does Miyawaki want to drown out? Her problems, of course.

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8. Anthony Hamilton, “Real Love” (Ft. Rick Ross)

💿 Love is the New Black • 🏷 My Music Box / BMG Rights Management • 📅 2021

“Real love, the kind you dream of / Comes once in your life.” Woo! After an excruciating five-year wait, 🏆 Grammy-winning, contemporary soul singer/songwriter 🎙 Anthony Hamilton released a brand-new studio album, 💿 Love is the New Black. One song I’ve had on repeat from the 2021 LP is 🎵 “Real Love” featuring 🎙 Rick Ross. “Real Love” provides a brilliant balance between old- and new school.  Neo-soul is firmly in play, amplified by interpolation of 🎵 “Swahililand” (🎙 Ahmad Jamal). Those syncopated, jazzy chords are nothing short of awesome. Besides the kick-ass jazz sample, the beat provides a more contemporary anchor, while also recalling the hip-hop soul of the 90s.

“Real love, the kind worth heaven

You’ve gotta hold tight

Real love, real love, real love, real love

Real love.”

Phew, Anthony Hamilton, that’s a lot of ‘real love’ right there! As always, Hamilton is locked in, blessing the soulful, love-oriented track with his anointed, distinct pipes. In the first verse, he speaks about a special love, one that doesn’t appear to be ‘romantic’: “And I was a child in your arms of love / And I just wanted to make you proud.” As for Ross, he excels at a soulful, old-school beat, but opts for a romantic brand of love, sex, and of course, touts his drip.  There’s no gray area when ‘The Bawse’ asserts: “Baby girl, I’ma kill somethin’ / Let me eat you out and I’ma kill somethin’.” WOO!  “Real Love,” produced by 🎛 9th Wonder, is ‘really’ good, NO CAP!

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9. Eric Nam, “One Way Lover”

💿 There and Back Again • 🏷 The Eric Nam Company • 📅 2022

🎙 Eric Nam is a fantastic singer, marvelously showcasing his vocal gifts on the short but sweet album, 💿 There and Back Again.  The Korean American standout shines from start to finish, serving up a relatively low-key, crooning style of K-pop encompassing pop and R&B.  He may never break a sweat, but the temperature rises nonetheless throughout There and Back Again! The project concludes on a high note with 🤩 🎵 “One Way Lover”.

Those expecting the one ‘explicit’ song from There and Back Again to be ‘dirty’ will likely be disappointed.  Nam utters one swear word in the second verse when he easily sings, “I’m okay with the way / That you’re handling your shit.” Yup, that’s all we get, and he slides it in like it’s nothing.  Thematically, anybody who’s experienced with love should be able to relate to the heartbreak and conflicted feelings Nam experiences.  The chorus is the centerpiece, made even better by the tasteful, colorful synths of producer, 🎛 Rabitt.

“How you living?

Bet it’s not so different

Don’t you ever wanna miss me at all?

You’re a one-way lover

Now it makes me wonder

Why I’d ever wanna miss you at all.”

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10. Teddy Swims, “Love for a Minute”

💿 Tough Love • 🏷 SWIMS Int. / Warner • 📅 2022 

“You told me, I was crazy / Your stories, kept on changing / I hate that I’m still hangin’ on to you.” Not all musicians start out the same way. Atlanta, Georgia singer/songwriter 🎙 Teddy Swims (Jaten Dimsdale) got his start via YouTube.  Eventually, this “chameleon soul” ended up with a record deal which is rad to say the least.  In 2022, Swims released a new EP, 💿 Tough Love, featuring 🎵 “Love for a Minute.”

In “Love for a Minute,” the love hasn’t worked out for Teddy. We’ve all been there, of course. “Would’ve never thought you could be so toxic,” he sings in the pre-chorus, adding, “Go, my darling, oh my darling.” Swims goes on to sing in the chorus, “I felt like love for a minute / Then you fucked up yeah, you did it / I’ll never fool myself again.” Ultimately, Swims sings beautifully and expressively on “Love for a Minute,” serving up a mix of full-bodied vocals and ripe falsetto.  We clearly feel the pain of the plight of L-O-V-E, that’s for sure!

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11. Keyshia Cole, “Love”

💿 The Way It Is • 🏷 A&M • 📅 2005 

In 2005, the world was introduced to 🎙 Keyshia Cole, a fabulous R&B singer, often compared to 🎙 Mary J. Blige.  Sure, Cole’s voice is incredible, but like Blige, she also has a compelling backstory.  Her debut album, 💿 The Way It Is, has no shortage of hits.  Among the best hits is her moving, love-centric ballad, simply titled, 🎵 “Love.”

“I used to think that I wasn’t fine enough / And I used to think that I wasn’t wild enough,” Cole sings expressively and vulnerably. She continues, singing in the first verse, “But I won’t waste my time tryin’ to figure out / Why you playin’ games – what’s this all about?” Basically, on this lushly produced number, Cole is heartbroken as her man is leaving/has already left her for someone else.  She’s devastated in love because she felt she’d found the real deal, best evidenced by the melisma-filled chorus:

“Love, never knew what I was missin’

But I knew once we start kissin’, I found

Love, never knew what I was missin’

But I knew once we start kissin’ I found, I found you.”

Oh, the plight of love!

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12. Justin Bieber, “Love Yourself”

💿 Purpose • 🏷 Def Jam • 📅 2015

“For all the times that you rained on my parade,” 🏆 Grammy winner 🎙 Justin Bieber sings on 🎵 “Love Yourself,” adding, “You think you broke my heart, oh girl for goodness sake / You think I’m cryin’ on my own, well, I ain’t.” “Love Yourself” certainly marked a more mature vibe for Bieber on his 2015 album, 💿 Purpose.  “Love Yourself” deserves some credit for the singer/songwriter vibe, which at the time, was a different sound for the pop star.  Notably, it was nominated for two Grammy awards: Song of the Year and Pop Solo Performance.

“Love Yourself” was written by Bieber, 🎼✍ Benny Blanco, and 🎼✍ Ed Sheeran. “Love Yourself” features a simple but fitting backdrop, with Blanco handling the 🎛 production duties.  Thematically, this “Love Yourself” is both empowering and yet from another angle, not-so empowering – choose your own perspective on self-love.  On one hand, Bieber knows he’s better off without this self-centered girl, hence, why he leaves her and encourages her to ‘love herself.’ “Cause if you like the way you look so much / Oh baby you should go love yourself,” he asserts on the chorus, continuing, “And if you think that I’m still holdin’ on to somethin’ / You should go and love yourself.”

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13. Mary J. Blige, “Love Without the Heartbreak”

💿 Good Morning Gorgeous • Mary Jane Productions Inc. / 300 Entertainment • 🗓 2022

Question: is it possible to have 🎵 “Love Without the Heartbreak”?  Not sure, but that’s what 🎙 Mary J. Blige seeks on the 10th track from her 2022 album, 💿 Good Morning Gorgeous.  After a five-year hiatus, The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul returned strong.  If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll notice “Love Without the Heartbreak” marks the second entry from GMG.  We could’ve included most of the album, of course!

In the context of Good Morning Gorgeous, “Love Without the Heartbreak” marks a second 🎛 Anderson .Paak production (with 🎛 Rogét Chahayed). The record is classy, refined grown folks R&B at its best.  That said, from Mary’s end, she’s not fucking around; she keeps it uncensored and unfiltered.  “If I could pick the best parts of love, I can do without this,” she asserts in the first verse, continuing, “I would take out all the bullshit / I would take out the part about your ex-bitch.” Woo! Truly, MJB is, indeed, “so goddamn sick of the pain” – love pain of course!

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🎧 13 More Songs Filled with Considerable Love [📷: 300 Entertainment, A&M, Andrea Piacquadio, BMG Rights Management, Brent Faulkner, Columbia, Dead Oceans, Def Jam, The Eric Nam Company, Igor Korzh, Ketut Subiyanto, Leonardo Aleixo Pires, Mary Jane Productions Inc., Melted Stone, Misha Earle, The Musical Hype, My Music Box, Pexels, Polina Tankilevitch, Republic, RODNAE Productions, Ron Lach SWIMS Int., Universal Music, Warner]
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