And that’s precisely how one ends up getting cheated on and/or broken up with/divorced. Of course, one could argue that if you’ve found true love, it shouldn’t have to feel like a game. The question is, do you reach a certain point…a certain “at capacity-ness” for heartbreak before you finally say enough, and disengage from the “game” altogether? If you have any shred of your sanity left, then the answer should be yes. Nazareth’s “Love Hurts”), Wolf seethingly warns, “And so it goes until the day you die/This thing they call love it’s gonna make you cry.” Intended as part acquiescence to being fate’s plaything/part mockery of conventional power ballads about love (e.g. It’s the emotion–or, more accurately, resignation to feeling nothing after a particular threshold–behind it that makes the track forever resonant, even when you’re ashamed to admit it (because usually the only time you have to is in public when the song inevitably comes on at some manufactured dive bar…unless, of course, you’re not afraid to admit that you seek out the song in the privacy of your own environs). Whether or not this is what spurred the lyrical content behind their most popular song of the 80s apart from “Centerfold” is irrelevant (though that blonde bride wearing a gas mask could easily pass for a Dunaway body double). Why? Call it the Lyle Lovett/Julia Roberts epiphany. ![]() The band’s lead singer, Peter Wolf (yes, it was one of those rare anomalies where the band was named in honor of a member who was not the frontman), had finalized his divorce with Faye Dunaway the year before after a five-year marriage that Dunaway was likely more keen to end. Geils Band’s 1980 single, “Love Stinks,” from the album of the same name. Before we had the seriousness and defeatism of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” or the playful, I won’t give up stylings of Charli XCX’s “Need Ur Love,” we had the hopeless “fuck everything” vibes of J.
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