Why does practically every pop song (from any era) have to sing about love? Not that I have anything against love, it’s just that, for once, I’d like to see an original song — not some generic love ballad. For once, I’d like to hear a song about something ordinary; I’d like to hear a song about a chair. Often, you’ll hear of love being taken for granted, but what about chairs? How often do you think about the chairs you sit upon every day? There is a home sweet home, but no chair sweet chair.

And for those who think you can’t get enough emotion from a song about chair: Haven’t you ever had a time when you really needed to sit down? How great did it feel when you actually found a seat?

It’s not as easy to write a song about a chair, but that’s the point. I want to hear a song that took effort to write, lyrics and all. Something non-generic. And the easiest way to remove the writers from the generic is to write on an entirely different subject.