What's love got to do with it?
February 14, 2011
The Sacramento Bee - 'I think the whole anti-love song phenomenon is typical of the cynicism of our times,' said Rob Weiner, a pop culture specialist and humanities librarian at Texas Tech University. 'More and more, we associate romantic relationships as negative things. … We expect to have horrible break-ups that become crazy and dysfunctional.'
Tonight, on Valentine's Eve, the Grammy Awards will celebrate romantic discord.
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"I think the whole anti-love song phenomenon is typical of the cynicism of our times," said Rob Weiner, a pop culture specialist and humanities librarian at Texas Tech University. "More and more, we associate romantic relationships as negative things. … We expect to have horrible break-ups that become crazy and dysfunctional."