R&B singer and songwriter Anita Baker has a song for everyone. “Sweet Love” from Baker’s second album, Rapture, was an instant success and won her a Grammy for Best R&B song in 1987.
What I love about this song is that she's trying to damn this person. She's trying to tell them they're going to regret their choices. She wants her to know they were wrong to deny what they had.
Arguably the most legendary love song in country music history, Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" was written amid the angst of her professional split with performing partner Porter Wagoner.
These emo and pop punk love songs from the early 2000s are the perfect soundtrack for those 'butterfly in my tummy' feels. A little bit of pop punk, a bit of electronica, a lot of heart ...