I would like to start by saying this is not a direct response to anyone. Try not to be offended and I'll try to not be offensive. :P

I am of the opinion, and this is my opinion, nothing more, that love songs are the easy route to take when it comes to songwriting. If you look at the top five songs on the radio, I'd guess all of them are love songs. Love is something that comes easily to us because it so closely aligns with our hearts and emotions. That makes it great if you want people to relate to your music. However, it takes a more impressive songwriter to make your audience relate to you without divulging your freedom to the topic of love, or even "like" as the case may be.

This is one, but not the greatest, of my reasons for not writing love songs. Personally, I'm waiting till I have someone to call my own before I write a song about someone. Otherwise, time could steal them away from me and leave me with a larger scar than it already would. I'm waiting till I can sing them to her to write them.

The point, however, was that love is such an easy topic to write on. Write on the children in Africa starving because they don't have enough to eat. Write me a song about the coexistence of chaos and order. Write me a song about your every day life. Okay. Now do it well, then I'll be impressed.

I don't know, perhaps I'm alone in these ideas. Perhaps other people find love songs hard to write. Perhaps I'm out of fashion, I honestly don't know.

I do know that in my opinion, an impressive song written about love is easily defeated by one written of equal merit on another topic. I know it's more difficult. That's why I've brought it up. Think of this as a challenge to all you songwriters out there.