Happy Valentine’s Day to all our readers! We’re celebrating this day of love in the best way we know how – with music (well, and just a few chocolates). We’ve compiled a sexy, smooth playlist featuring the newest love songs of the year (scroll to the bottom of this post for the playlist).
The day of romance or love we call Valentine’s Day is named after a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday Lupercalia.
Random facts about Valentine’s Day from around the world
According to findings, people living in Sinapore spend the most on on Valentine’s Day, with 60% of Singaporeans saying that they would spend between $100 and $500 during the season leading up to the holiday. Wow!
Saudi Arabia has made Valentine’s Day illegal. Young people in Saudi Arabia have been arrested since Saudi Arabians think Valentine’s Day is not an Islamic festival.
In Taiwan, the traditional Qixi Festival, Valentine’s Day and White Day are all celebrated. However, the situation is the reverse of Japan’s. Men give gifts to women on Valentine’s Day, and women return them on White Day. Seems fair – plus you get more days of celebration which is never a bad thing.
In the US, about 190 million Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year! Think of the paper! And that figure does not include the hundreds of millions of cards school children exchange. In recent years Valentine’s Day has become so commercialized with Valentine’s Day themed advertisements encouraging you to spend it all on your loved one. In fact, in the US alone, the average valentine’s spending has increased every year, from $108 a person in 2010 to $131 in 2013.
You can find Valentine’s skull in Rome! The flower-adorned skull of St. Valentine is on display in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. You’ll find other bits of St. Valentine’s skeleton on display in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Is there no respect?
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Our favourite quotes about Love:
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. (Aristotle)
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Lao Tzu)
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. (Anais Nin)
- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)
- Love does not dominate; it cultivates. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. (Zora Neale Hurston)
- Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. (Leo Tolstoy)
- Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker)
- All you need is Love. (The Beatles)
To open his playlist in Creation 5, just tap here.
Valentine’s Playlist
1.) Beyoncé – Partition
2.) Beyoncé – Mine ft. Drake
3.) The Weeknd – Earned It
4.) Ariana Grande, The Weeknd – Love Me Harder
5.) PARTYNEXTDOOR – Recognize ft. Drake
6.) Rihanna – You Da One
7.) Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
8.) Taylor Swift – Blank Space
9.) Chris Brown – Autumn Leaves
10.) Chris Brown ft. Usher & Rick Ross – New Flame
11.) Sia – Elastic Heart
12.) Nicki Minaj – Grand Piano
13.) Nicki Minaj – Buy A Heart ft. Meek Mill
14.) Childish Gambino – Sober
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