Blog Post Week 11 - "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner

 

For this weeks blogpost, I decided to write about Tina Turner's hit single "What's Love Got to Do with It." I find this song intriguing because of her demoralizing past that correlates with it. For 16 years, Tina Turner was abused in her marriage by her atrocious husband Ike Turner. I feel that her views on love after such an egregious marriage are evidently visible throughout the song. I feel that her feelings are best displayed when she states, "If I tend to look dazed I've read it someplace. I've got cause to be." I feel she's saying that everyone should be able to understand her abhorrence toward love because she's experienced the terror and anguish that can be brought about by it. She has a right to the opinion she has of love. Everyone's goal, though never explicitly expressed, is to hurt anyone they can, regardless of what they've done, in order to make themselves feel better. I feel that this message is eloquently portrayed through the lyrics of this song. I also noticed the timbre of her voice in the chorus that emphasizes the excruciating pain that she had endured. In the chorus, when she says the word "what" in the phrase "what's love got to do with it," she seems to be desperately yelling. Her voice sounds hoarse and raspy, which shows that for a long time, she's been desperate to escape the "love" that she's been trapped in for so many years.