Pop Shots – 5 Songs Featuring Totally Different Kinds of Love

Welcome to your weekly dose of pop world musings. Covering all things pop culture, with Valentine’s Day coming up on Friday, this week Pop Shots is all about love … but not the kind of love you see in RomComs.

Instead, this column is all about totally different kinds of love, as I’ve selected five songs that cover a wide range of the emotion – from radar to rodent!

Yes, you read that correctly, I said from radar to rodent!

So let’s get into this love filled list, and since this is Pop Shots you know everything is seasoned with a little bit of attitude.

Radar Love

 

Having nothing to do with tracking a storm, “Radar Love” is about a love so strong you’re connected at the soul.

I fear that if Hallmark were to ever get its hands on this song they’d turn in into a movie about someone who falls in love with their local weatherman, so let’s hope Gold Earring owns the rights, and no one’s estate gets any bright ideas.

Tainted Love

 

“Tainted Love” is a terrible type of love to be on the receiving end of, but everyone is a fan of Soft Cell’s version of this classic song.

Not to be superstitious, but if you don’t clap along, or tap something to the beat, it could lead to seven years of tainted love, so you better be ready for when you hear, “Sometimes I feel I’ve got to …”

As an aside, I don’t think Hallmark would touch this one, but Lifetime could probably turn it into an awful reality series about bad relationships.

Burning Love

 

When Elvis felt his temperature rising, so did most of the ladies in the audience, so when he sang that he was “a hunk, a hunk of burning love,” a litany of loins were set ablaze.

Of course, we now connect the words “burning,” and “love” a bit differently, so if you happen to feel a burnin’ love … down there … you should probably see your doctor, who can prescribe something for that.

Muskrat Love

 

I promised you rodent romance, and now I’m delivering on that promise thanks to Captain & Tennille, and their cover of “Muskrat Love,” which includes muskrat mating sound effects!

For some reason I can easily imagine this being a couple’s wedding song, and them dancing to it while in muskrat costumes.

I swear I don’t take LSD before writing these columns. Although I guess I technically don’t know what’s in the energy drink I’ve been sippin’ on. Hmm …

Higher Love

 

I wanted to close this list out on a high note, and it doesn’t get any higher than “Higher Love.”

A perfect song for those of us who are single, we can crank it up, sing along, and perhaps the right person will hear us, and join us in a duet just like Steve Winwood and Chaka Khan.

OK, maybe that won’t happen, but I’m still crankin’ it up, because it’s an ‘80s classic, and it’s awesome.

That’s all for this edition of Pop Shots, but come back next Monday for more shots on all things pop.