#romantic ballad

[retropopcult]

"Saving All My Love for You" is a song made famous by American singer Whitney Houston, who recorded it for her debut album in 1985. It became her first single to hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and eventually went Platinum for sales of over 1 million copies. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, it won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The song caused some controversy for Houston due to its theme of having an affair with a married man. Her mother, Cissy, did not like the scenario described in the lyrics, claiming that the song's message would reflect badly on her daughter. However, later Whitney herself confessed, “I was going through a terrible love affair at the time. He was married, and that will never work out for anybody. Never, no way.”

"Saving All My Love" was originally written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin during the 1970s and first recorded by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis for their album but not released as a single. Years later, Masser saw Whitney for the first time in New York when she was singing one of his songs, "The Greatest Love of All". After her performance, Houston told Masser that the song was one of her favorites and later, Masser was chosen by Arista to produce some tracks for Houston's first album.  He offered up "Saving All My Love" and she said she "immediately responded to it, emotionally."

After the success of her previous single, "You Give Good Love", the executives at Arista Records didn't think "Saving All My Love for You" was a good follow up for next single. When Masser heard this, he made a friendly wager with Arista's president, Clive Davis, during one of Houston's performances at the Roxy Theatre in LA. Masser proposed that if all the women got on their feet when Houston started single "Saving All My Love", then Davis would agree that it should be the next single. They did and it was. 

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: October 27, 2003

Lyrics:

So long ago

I didn't have a care about me

I didn't know my right from wrong

But now I know

That you got your love around me

You know it makes me feel so strong

Baby if you turn around

And prove to me it's real

Maybe we can work it out

'Cause this is how I feel

Do you know when you go when you give it all away

I'll be there for you, care for you

Love you everyday, oh baby

And do you feel the same for me?

Any day your away

And I feel a little low

I would cry for you, die for you

Just to let you know, oh baby

And if you come to me, you know I'll make it right

Through out my life

I'd never thought I'd have somebody

Someone to call my own

And now I've found

A little bit of heaven baby

A place to call my home

Baby if you turn around

And prove to me it's real

Maybe we can work it out

'Cause this is how I feel

Do you know when you go when you give it all away

I'll be there for you, care for you

Love you everyday, oh baby

And do you feel the same for me?

Any day your away

And I feel a little low

I would cry for you, die for you

Just to let you know, oh baby

And if you come to me, you know I'll make it right

Baby, don't you know you gotta

Slow down, before you know you gonna

Break down and turn around

Before you know, you go and break my heart

When will you learn to be

A little helpful when you think of me

A little careful when you're close to me

'Cause baby, I loved you from the start

Baby if you turn around

And prove to me it's real

Maybe we can work it out

'Cause this is how I feel (This is how I feel... This is how I feel)

I love you baby

Do you know when you go when you give it all away

I'll be there for you, care for you

Love you everyday, oh baby

Do you feel the same for me?

Any day your away

And I feel a little low

I would cry for you, die for you

Just to let you know, oh baby

I would die

I love you baby

And if you come to me, you know I'll make it right

Do you know when you go when you give it all away

I'll be there for you, care for you

Love you everyday, oh baby

Do you feel the same for me?

Any day your away

And I feel a little low

I would cry for you, die for you

Just to let you know, oh baby

I would die

Songwriter:

Ash Howes / Richard Stannard / Noel Gallagher / Walter Murphy / Jeff Harrington

SongFacts:

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[illustratus]

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton

[carryoncastiel]

Wyll Ravengard is charisma king, he does not rehearse his romantic lines, his mind makes that shit up on the spot like it's nothing, see the light people!!!

[sncinderdoodles]

Still obsessing over the OG hunger games books in the year 2023

[ballad-of-birdy-lamb]

there needs to be more lucy gray stuff on tumblr i swear 😭😭 it’s actually hurting me, im in love with her. anyways…could you write some fluff headcanons w lucy gray and a fem!reader pls? thx :)

I ❤️ Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray Baird x Fem! Reader (headcanons, fluff, romantic)

She is likely the type of person to not care if someone is a man or a woman. If she likes you, you're around her age, and you're kind, you might as well date

Before dating, she was very willing to drop hints. If there was a sign of interest you had in her, she took the opportunity

After dating, she is just as sweet as before, a bit toned down but still loving

Lucy Gray expects you to go to her shows, all of them if you can

Piggybacking off the last one, she'll write songs for and about you. They'll be ballads talking about your kindness and the things you give her

Roses are some of her favorite gifts, she loves the taste and they always smell good. Another good option is handmade gifts, letters, poems, hell, food is all she adores

If you give her poems, she is very willing to turn them into songs. But only sings them for you since they're special

She has sung to you and played the guitar for you. But in a cool way

She NEEDS to feel like she can trust you. She couldn't trust Billy Taupe and she couldn't trust anyone in the arena, so you still have time to prove to her that you're trustworthy

After the Games, violence was an absolute no in her life (it was a no before but it's absolute after everything). If you find a way to bring that brutality back into her life, she'll leave as quickly as she had come

If you get her gifts that are a bit expensive, she'll send you some goat cheese for free!

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To all that have requested before this post was, I’m working on several longer fanfics and plan to release the headcanons first then the full fanfics when I finish them!!

Link to my tbosas masterlist

[thoughtfulchaos773]

It's the camera movements, the close shots, and composition that make it look like a love montage from a John Hughes movie, and the angles that are fitting for an 80s ballad in the background

Also, I love that the close ups don't start until Carmy lays eyes on Sydney.

[childrenofcain-if]

W and MC give such soulmates vibe 😭 Patrocles (W) and Achilles (MC), which ironic considering my MC has dark hair and W has the blonde hair but I digress.

Even if I'm saying all this, please don't actually turn them into a Greek tragedy 😔

um haha, what do you meeaaannnn? i’m obviously not gonna do that, everything is going to be fine and dandy in the end 😄 trust in me and i won’t steer you wrong 🫡

but it’s funny that you mention patrocles and achilles with W because that’s the myth on how their character and route came to be. i gave them achilles’s looks and patrocles’s general melancholic disposition so it’s surprising to see someone clock that, even if it was unintentional.

[fujiblackthorne]

coryo got her kicking her feet and twirling her hair 🤭

[my-adorable-fox]

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ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART

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“For anyone who has ever made a bad decision because of a broken heart.”

Evangeline Fox X Jacks of the Hollow

[slozhnos]

defeating seven evil exes? boring. singing me my favorite broadway ballads? fun and romantic. clear effort.

[vampirehizzies]

its the same story every damn time though, like no matter how impractical it is there's still always that same devastating and tragic scenario where they couldn't save their district partner and by snow's logic it shouldn't matter since in this dog-eat-dog world of the hunger games alliances/caring about another person is impossible. yet again and again you see some kid always watching someone he knew from home die and how it hurts him. and you see this pattern from three (probably more) different districts over 74 years - treech and lamina, haymitch and maysilee, cato and clove.

[genshin-scenarios]

Reunion: A Ripple [Part 1]

Summary: The sequel to Adopt a Wanderer is finally here!

Note: This sequel series will be more open-ended in terms of romantic/platonic interactions (nothing that cements either one will be included), so readers can read it how they like!

Read the first series here! (an AU where Scaramouche/Wanderer gets isekaied to your world, found-family series)

-> Part 2

There are many sayings to explain what one sees in their dreams; that they are fragments of memories strewn together, visualizations of yearning, or fears brought to life.

To Wanderer—who stands knee-deep in a dark blue and violet sea—it is a mixture of all three.

He sees a figure in the distance that wades through the scenery. Their visage grows hazier the more he tries to look closer, and they take a silent step away from him—followed by a drop of water that reverberates through the dreamscape, transporting him into a different place altogether.

Wanderer is in a house, its floorings and decoration something he cannot identify as Teyvatian. It is foreign in a way that doesn’t seem like it’d be able to hold him; as if a hunter dropped a woven net over the puppet, expecting it to be enough to snare the callous soul. 

He stands, as if frozen in time, like a creature taken aback by this new sensation, and allows himself to stay still as he turns his gaze to the sound of running water.

A person washing dishes. Wanderer barely recognises your face at first, but an odd sense of familiarity calls out to him from your movements—relaxed, humming to a song playing from your phone—and his eyes widen as something clicks in his mind.

The last thing he manages to do before he is snatched away, is reach out his hand towards you. Does it in such panic that his arm aches, as if his action could race against the way his consciousness closes in on itself, engulfing everything in a voidless dark. 

His lashes flutter open, and a sharp pain throbs at the back of his skull.

He groans, cursing the headache, and covers his eyes with a hand as if that would keep the dream from slipping away.

Irminsul. Wanderer clenches his jaw. What has it done?

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-> Part 2

[starrynightsxo]

what I wouldn't give to have haymitch abernathy call me sweetheart 😭

[carcarrot]

you won't believe the amount of bad movies i can watch

[writingthroughthenight]

"Feyre darling" this, "Feyre darling" that

Meanwhile, I'm stuck on: "I know, love. I'm going to take you somewhere safe"????