Tolstoy once wrote, “Music is the shorthand for emotion.” Valentine’s Day is a wonderful excuse to get emotional, let loose the helpless romantic inside and binge your favorite love songs. Or ...

Once an artist releases a song into the world, they lose control of its public interpretation, which has led to a lot of downright creepy, weird, or even hateful songs being mistaken as love songs.

Some of the most romantic-sounding hits hide much heavier truths. Over the years, millions of listeners have slow-danced, proposed, or even walked down the aisle to songs that were never meant to ...