To further analyze our results, we compared the lyrical content of the 5 most popular love songs with the work of 3 romance scholars: Pamela Regis, Janice Radway, and Tanya Modleski. From our analyses, we can determine which popular love songs are true romances according to scholarly definitions of romance.
Each song’s home page contains the artist and lyrics to that song. From there, 3 separate pages show our analysis of the song from the 3 romance scholars’ perspectives.