Theme Songs: True Love Waits

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I am looking for songs on the theme of Willingly Abstaining from Sex and/or Relationships Until You Find True Love or a Decent Man/Woman or Somesuch.

The rules:

- Nominate tracks you think (a) fit the theme, (b) are good, and (c) I may not have heard (or paid enough attention to, i.e. this is your chance to make me listen to Electrik Red again) before.
- I'm changing the rules so you can officially nominate three songs, since we didn't exactly have a bumper crop of participation last time. Feel free to mention more than your official three.
- For your official nominations, please provide an embed or link at which I can hear the full song (e.g. YouTube, LaLa, Last.fm, anything other than Spotify).
- You have until Friday to nominate a song, but songs can only be officially nominated by one person, so get in early.
- The song I judge to be the most thematically appropriate AND the most awesome will win, and the person who nominated it gets to pick next week's theme.

Songs I have already heard which fit this theme:

- Kelly Clarkson / Katy Perry, "I Do Not Hook Up"
- Roxane Shante, "Brothers Ain't Shit"
- Pussycat Dolls, "I Don't Need a Man"
- Solange Knowles, "I Decided, Pt. 1"

Comments

Was I ever in love? It felt like love...

[koganbot]

The Shangri-Las "Past, Present And Future"

I think this fits your theme, though "until" is posited as contingent at best:



Maybe someday I'll hold somebody's hand. Maybe somewhere someone will understand.

connie francis, "if it takes forever"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v.sad Futurama version starring Fry's dog Seymour:

Let's wait a while Janet Jackson

[graciousviv.livejournal.com]

Request for clarification

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Would songs that are like "this specific person or type of persons is not getting any sex from me" qualify?

e.g. TLC's "No Scrubs"?

Re: Request for clarification

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Sure, although it's probably going to score lower in the "fits the theme" category than "I Do Not Hook" up or something would.

Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely nominate this anyway though:

Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me

Unembedabble here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiHER6T284

Embedde dversion below has lyrics on it I guess:

Re: Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you

[koganbot]

In order to calculate your odds of winning with the Avril song, and whether you should consider nominating others, you might want to take a look at this thread, especially this subthread, and be sure not to overlook this comment.

Re: Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Lulz! Ah well, perhaps I can force some sort of CRITICAL RE-EVALUATION. If not, sorry for the three and a half minutes of pain!

A mention

[meserach.livejournal.com]

I won;t actually nominate this because I think someone else is going to soon and they're the person who told me about it so:

Re: A mention

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Haha, is that "Blush"? Can't play it at the moment. Might nominate that one, hmmmmm....

Re: A mention

[meserach.livejournal.com]

It is indeed BLush. Was it you that mentioned on here recently in some conversation or other? Or maybe it was Frank? It was on LJ I'm sure.

Re: A mention

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Was probably Frank, but I wouldn't put it past me to bring it up.

Re: A mention

[koganbot]

Well, you certainly have my permission to nominate it, though if neither you nor anyone else does I might, though I think Aly's waiting until she's ready (or married) rather than for Mr. Right, which the guy she's addressing hasn't necessarily disqualified himself from, if I'm reading the song right.

It is a great song.

Re: A mention

[meserach.livejournal.com]

No-one else did, so consider this an official nomination for BLush by Aly & AJ

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Nomiation 1: Karina Pasian f. Lil' Mama - Baby Baby

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Not nec. nominating it, but here's Jaleel White a.k.a. Urkel's abstinence anthem "Contents Under Pressure":

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

What of "We don't have to take our clothes off (to have a good time"?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Since I'm sure girlboymusic already knows it, I'm just going to suggest but not nominate M2M's "Don't Say You Love Me."

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Psst...no, I don't.

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Also, wait, you thought I knew M2M but not Cassie?

Fine...

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

M2M - Don't Say You Love Me

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

But keeping with the R&B thang I will nominate:

Cassie - Long Way 2 Go

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

So are we allowed to nix nominations in light of the judge revealing that she has already heard it?

[koganbot]

If you're interested, here's Cassie's "Long Way 2 Go (Hovatron Remix)," which I may prefer to the original.

No one is going to make me feel so

[koganbot]

Johnny Moped "No One"



Lyrics are minimalist enough to make them easy to interpret in multiple ways, but one interpretation is that our protagonist murders potential lovers and friends to forestall the possibility of their making him happy against his will.

[koganbot]

This one isn't quite on theme, since it's Willingly Abstaining from Sex Until The Guy Marries Her Already, but I thought I'd link it anyway because I like it:

Little Big Town "Little White Church"

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

First one that came to mind was Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands To Yourself," but nope, that's like "Little White Church" for the gal (willingly waiting til marriage) while the guy waits unwillingly.

So I'm going with [b]Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light[/b], since waiting for True Love is what Ellen Foley's doing (or at least waiting until Meat says he'll love her forever, even though he clearly feels coerced in the matter.) I'm not sure whether Phil Rizzuto ("we got a real pressure cooker going here") is waiting for anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXioMM_4iI8


(There may well be better songs that fit the theme, but oddly enough none are coming to mind. And this one is pretty great, once or twice a decade.)

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

Okay I'll try that again (going back and forth between ILX and non-ILX always confuses my HTML skills):

Meat Loaf "Paradise By The Dashboard Light

If I think of two more, which I may or may not, I'll post them too.