"Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission. For a classic piece of nineties Brit pop, Oasis's " Slide Away" is basically an absurdly romantic ballad of plain devotion and yearning-which "Wuthering Heights" has established as the emotions of the season. May your Valentine's Day be all about both!- Noreen Plabutong"
"I listen to jazz on Newark's WBGO all year long, but in February, when last week's snow is frozen high and gray along the sidewalk, nothing makes me feel luckier to be inside, with someone I love, than jazz. I turn on the radio in the bedroom and stir up an Old-Fashioned, the music playing down the hall like conversation at a party I've stepped away from."
"During dinner with my husband the other night, when the Miles Davis Quintet's " You're My Everything" came on, I recognized the first seconds of the rendition's famous false start, intimate and inviting, before Davis introduces the song's name. As my husband leaned in to scoop salad onto my plate, I spoke the words in time with Davis: "You are my everything."- Jenny Blackman"
Selected songs form a Valentine's playlist that captures devotion, intimacy, seduction, and hopeful commitment. Oasis's 'Slide Away' embodies nineties Brit-pop romantic yearning and straightforward devotion. Jazz from WBGO and the Miles Davis Quintet recording of 'You're My Everything' creates intimate domestic moments and prompts spoken affection. Janelle Monáe's 'Lipstick Lover' supplies a languid, seductive groove that invites a shimmy. John Darnielle's 'Old College Try' reads as a hopeful, delusional paean from one broken spouse to another who remain together despite hurt. Finding someone great after bad luck in love can feel like entering an alternate dimension.
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