SEDUCTIVE, YOU

have you ever noticed in songs when the singer is singing TO someone, it's always "YOU"...never a name, always "you..." who's you??? why not name them? that's why i've always found it sometimes hard to actually feel for the artist lost in a lamenting love song, when i know for a fact that they're happily married or something...

do you know what i mean? most songs out there on the market these days are love songs, and most are sad ones singing about how they just got their hearts crushed...and all that bullshit, when in real life they're married with three kids!! how are we to relate to that, and how are we to think they actually know how we're feeling (assuming we're currently going through something similar to the song's content) when we know it's all for show??

getting back to the "you" factor; i think it's more seductive for the object of the singer's affection to remain nameless...faceless...it's almost as if they're talking to us...just like poetry; being vague seems to have the better results. i wonder why that is?

try it next time your favorite love song comes on the radio...who's "you"? who are they singing to? a past lover? a current behind-the-scenes mistress? it certainly adds an aspect of mystery to it, doesn't it?