Time is Love Overview
Josh Turner sings the song Time is Love. It is critiqued as being not fulfilling enough. Turner sings about how he needs to not waste time and get home to his woman. Fans were looking for more to the story. They wanted more of a climax and ending, rather than a beginning and a theme.
The purpose of the song is to get the point across that Turner wants to get home to his significant other because he misses her. He does not want to spend all of his time at work. Turner sings, “I only get so many minutes / Don’t wanna spend ‘em all on the clock / In the time that we spent talkin’, how many kisses have I lost.” This emphasizes how he would rather be at home spending quality time with this mystery woman, than stuck at work squandering his time away. Turner will work to make the money he needs, but he will not work longer than he has to because that will waste his much needed time. He still values his job, but he values his love for his woman more.
The chorus does not add any extra information to the story that is playing out in the song. It just continues building up the need for the man, Turner, to be with his woman. But like most unpopular, scrambled songs, his story goes nowhere fairly fast. The chorus repeats too much, which takes away from the story line. In order to make the song better, more information should have been added with less of a chorus. There is build up but no concluding, evident moment where he finally meets up with this woman. By the time the song would eventually climax, the audience has already lost interest.
I think that the song, Time is Love, is a fairly good song. Turner has a good singing voice. He sings clearly, and his country accent makes it sound better. Turner arranges his priorities in order to place his most important ones first, that of which being love. At the bottom of his list is money. In 1748, Benjamin Franklin said, “Remember that time is money.” This means that in order to earn money, one must act and use one’s time. The expression could also mean that there is no time available to lose.
As much as the song, Time is Love, has been criticized as being subpar material and below Turner’s talent level, many people thought it had an amazing sound and loved it. The song was named by Billboard Magazine as being the number one country song of 2012; however, it was not the number one song on the Hot Country Songs chart. Time is Love is the second song in history to achieve those titles. This provides evidence that a majority of people truly believe it is a fairly well created song.
Overall, Turner’s song, Time is Love, is a good song. There are good reviews and bad reviews on it. It is hard to say whether or not a majority likes the song due to such controversial ideas and statements made on the track. I do, however, agree that the song should have had a climactic point where the story of love tied together. Though some may say the song is good and others may say it is bad, the theme of love over money is passionate, and Josh Turner sang the song very well.
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