The VillageQ Valentine’s Day Playlist

Posted by Vikki Reich on February 13, 2015 at 7:00 AM

http://city-made.com/2010/03/20/355/ Oh Valentine’s Day! Some people love you and your Hallmark cards and your chocolates filled with mysterious (and mostly undesirable) fillings. Some people do their best to ignore you and some actively hate you and your fat baby with wings who shoots people in the lovelorn ass. Some people are chained to the dining room table cutting out endless paper hearts so their kids can stuff them in shoeboxes in schools across the land.

Valentine’s Day is a complicated mess of commercialism and romantic ideals about love and relationships.

But, as my daughter used to say when she was three, “I love love.” I also love music. So, what better way to celebrate this strange holiday than for us to share a VillageQ playlist. These are some of our favorite songs about love–the good, the bad and the gone.

Listen to some music! Poke your partner or poke cupid in the eye or poke holes in the bottom of each and every damn chocolate so you don’t have to eat the icky ones!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The Band Perry – Done

Brandi Carlile – Closer to You

Julieta Venegas – Limon Y Sal

Stephen Bishop – It Might Be You

Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long

Madonna – Crazy for You

Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive

Fred Everything featuring Lisa Shaw – Here I Am

Tags: music, Valentine's Day, VillageQ Playlist

Vikki Reich

Author: Vikki Reich Vikki writes about the intersection of contemporary lesbian life, parenthood and pop culture at her personal blog Up Popped A Fox. She is the co-director of Listen To Your Mother Twin Cities. In 2013, she completed the Foreword Writing Apprenticeship in Creative Nonfiction at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and is a 2013 recipient of the Beyond the Pure Fellowship for writers. She lives in Minneapolis with her partner and two kids and, in the real world, she never speaks of herself in the third person.