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4 Classic R&B Love Songs That Show You’re an Old Soul

Noisey selects four timeless R&B love songs that reflect the old souls of the world in a world of hectic romance and online dating.

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Great love songs make love songs sound easy. So why does dating feel so needlessly complicated for so many people? Social media sets the expectations obscenely high and distorts our self-perception. Misogyny is rampant, and the gender wars seem to never cease. Not to mention dating can be extremely expensive too.

Consequently, men and women alike spend a lot of time daydreaming about an old school kind of love. What would life be like if romance wasn’t so complicated? Thankfully, old love songs gave us plenty of material in this regard. There were R&B records about true love, not just raunchy sex jams or funky relationships. So we’ve picked out four across R&B’s rich history........

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