8 Deceptively Unromantic "Love" Songs

8. Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIjVuRTm-dc The Song You Know "She Will Be Loved" put Adam Levine on the map as the type of sensitive rocker who would do anything to ease your pain. Why It's Not So Romantic Over the course of 4 nauseatingly sweet minutes, our singer explains his attempted courting of a barely legal girl who is perpetually moving between boyfriends. At first, he seems locked in the friend zone but he will do anything to get her. Though Levine "doesn't mind standing every day out on corner in the pouring rain," it's clear that she wants nothing to do with him, otherwise she would have invited his rain-soaked ass inside at some point. So the sight of him showing up outside her window every time it begins to storm is less John Cusack in Say Anything and more Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy. "She will be loved," he relentlessly sings, presumably while stroking his goatee and preparing his chloroform rag. "She will be loved." Things only get weirder when the bridge comes, with Levine informing us (and the girl he's obsessing over) that there's no getting away. "I know where you hide, alone in your car." And, as any good stalker should, he knows everything about her. But most importantly/creepily, there's absolutely no getting rid of him. "I know that goodbye means nothing at all." You can't wave this man off. You can't ask him to leave you alone. You. Cannot. Escape. Oh, and the album this comes from is called Songs About Jane. The others songs about her? "Harder to Breathe," "Shiver," "Must Get Out," and "Sweetest Goodbye."
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