Songs About Being Loved

I told you last week that I might go back and post Songs About Being Loved, Wanted, and Welcome as counterpoints to my previous three posts, and doggone if I didn't do just that. Here's the first post, and the others will follow in short order. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Céline Dion  ~  "Because You Loved Me"

2)  Bob Marley  ~  "Could You Be Loved?"

3)  Kellie Pickler  ~  "Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You?"

4)  Bryan Adams  ~  "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"

5)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)"

6)  Marvin Gaye  ~  "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"

7)  Aretha Franklin  ~  "I Never Loved A Man"

8)  Savage Garden  ~  "I Knew I Loved You"

9)  Lauren Daigle  ~  "You Say"

10)  Lewis Capaldi  ~  "Someone You Loved"

11)  Travis Greene & Steffany Gretzinger  ~  "Good And Loved"

12)  Garth Brooks  ~  "Papa Loved Mama"

13)  Taylor Swift  ~  "The Way I Loved You"

14)  Maroon 5  ~  "She Will Be Loved"

15)  Sarah McLachlan & Randy Newman  ~  "When She Loved Me"

16)  Stars Go Dim  ~  "You Are Loved"

17)  Agnetha Fältskog  ~  "When You Really Loved Someone"

18)  Josh Groban  ~  "Don't Give Up (You Are Loved)"

19)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  "When Will I Be Loved?"

20)  George Michael  ~  "You Have Been Loved"

21)  Rebecca St. James  ~  "You Are Loved"

22)  Blue October  ~  "Should Be Loved"

23)  Aimee Mann  ~  "You Never Loved Me"

24)  Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators  ~  "The One You Loved Is Gone"

25)  Céline Dion  ~  "Loved Me Back To Life"

Songs About Heaven & Hell, Vol. 1

This is either an ill-advised or brilliantly conceived two-part series. I haven't figured that out just yet. Either way, I'm almost certain you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"  (It's actually not, but okay...)

2)  Meat Loaf  ~  "Bat Out Of Hell"  (I guess he had to leave in a hurry?)

3)  Fats Domino  ~  "My Blue Heaven"

4)  Billie Eilish  ~  "All The Good Girls Go To Hell"  (Something about this doesn't seem logical.)

5)  Bryan Adams  ~  "Heaven"  (First song I thought of when coming up with the idea for this post!)

6)  Lizzo  ~  "Good As Hell"  (A bit of an oxymoron, don't you think?)

7)  Breathe  ~  "Hands To Heaven"

8)  T. Graham Brown  ~  "Hell And High Water"  (When I was a kid, I used to wonder who Helen Highwater was. I still haven't found out!)

9)  Los Lonely Boys  ~  "Heaven"

10)  Tegan and Sara  ~  "Hell"

11)  Led Zeppelin  ~  "Stairway To Heaven"

12)  The All-American Rejects  ~  "Gives You Hell"

13)  Florence + The Machine  ~  "All This And Heaven Too"

14)  AC/DC  ~  "Highway To Hell"  (I hear it's broad and paved with good intentions.)

15)  Alice In Chains  ~  "Heaven Beside You"

16)  Dua Lipa  ~  "Hotter Than Hell"  (Is anything really, though?)

17)  MARINA  ~  "Handmade Heaven"

18)  The Pretty Reckless  ~  "Going To Hell"  (Fun fact: Taylor Momsen, the lead singer of this band, portrayed Cindy Lou Who in the Jim Carrey version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas way back in the early '00s. On a song-related note, going to hell is no joke. It really sucks! Avoid at all costs!)

19)  Kane Brown  ~  "Heaven"

20)  Metallica  ~  "Hell And Back"  (I don't think it really has a revolving door. Once you're there, you're stuck there.)

21)  Charlotte Gainsbourg ft. Beck  ~  "Heaven Can Wait"  (There are more weird images in this video than I can shake a stick at!)

22)  Pat Benatar  ~  "Hell Is For Children"  (At first, the title of this song makes no sense whatsoever. But when you figure out what she's really singing about, it makes perfect sense!)

23)  Foxes  ~  "Holding Onto Heaven"

24)  KISS  ~  "Hell Or Hallelujah"

25)  Orianthi  ~  "Heaven In This Hell"

More Songs About Being Loved

More Songs About Being Loved. Because nothing's changed since yesterday. We all still want to be loved. So enjoy 'em already!  ~  JH

1)  Bryan Adams  ~  "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"

2)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)"

3)  INXS  ~  "The Loved One"

4)  Aimee Mann  ~  "You Never Loved Me"

5)  Culture Club  ~  "I Just Wanna Be Loved"

6)  Wynonna Judd  ~  "To Be Loved By You"

7)  DC Talk  ~  "Wanna Be Loved"

8)  Chely Wright  ~  "Till I Was Loved By You"

9)  Josh Groban  ~  "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"

10)  Rebecca Ferguson  ~  "Teach Me How To Be Loved"

11)  Brett Young  ~  "Like I Loved You"

12)  Elle King  ~  "Can't Be Loved"

13)  Depeche Mode  ~  "I Feel Loved"

14)  My Brightest Diamond  ~  "I Have Never Loved Someone"

15)  Savage Garden  ~  "I Knew I Loved You"

16)  Tatiana Manaois   ~  "Loved Like This"

17)  George Michael  ~  "You Have Been Loved"

18)  Lucy Hale  ~  "Loved"

19)  Don Williams  ~  "I've Been Loved By The Best"

20)  Delta Rae ft. Lindsey Buckingham  ~  "If I Loved You"

21)  Paul Weller  ~  "The Loved"

22)  Dixie Chicks  ~  "Once You've Loved Somebody"

23)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Said I Loved You...But I Lied"

24)  Rebecca St. James  ~  "You Are Loved"

25)  George Jones  ~  "She Loved A Lot In Her Time"

Songs? Really? No. "Really" Songs

Songs with "Really" in the title? Is that really what this blog has come to? Well, yeah! I mean, why not? Now what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Katy Perry  ~  "Never Really Over"

2)  Culture Club  ~  "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"

3)  Demi Lovato ft. Cher Lloyd  ~  "Really Don't Care"

4)  Tim McGraw  ~  "Can't Be Really Gone"

5)  Madonna ~   "Nothing Really Matters"

6)  Zapp  ~  "It Doesn't Really Matter"

7)  Carly Rae Jepsen  ~  "I Really Like You"

8)  James Blunt  ~  "I Really Want You"

9)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  "Nothing Really Matters"

10)  Mr. Probz  ~  "Nothing Really Matters (Afrojack Remix)"

11)  Nina Nesbitt  ~  "Is It Really Me You're Missing?"

12)  The Elderberries  ~  "It Doesn't Really Matter"

13)  JJ Heller  ~  "What Love Really Means"

14)  Bob Dylan  ~  "All I Really Want To Do"

15)  CHVRCHES  ~  "Really Gone"

16)  Chicago  ~  "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"

17)  Project Grand Slam ft. Lucy Woodward  ~  "You Really Got Me"

18)  Bryan Adams  ~  "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"

19)  Oren Lavie ft. Vanessa Paradis  ~  "Did You Really Say No?"

20)  England Dan & John Ford  ~  "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight"

21)  Alanis Morissette  ~  "All I Really Want"

22)  Joe Jackson  ~  "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"

23)  Anna Leone  ~  "I Never Really"

24)  The Smiths  ~  "William, It Was Really Nothing"

25)  Blackpink  ~  "Really"