Elani Kaufman

With the release of lineups, music festival season has come around yet again. It seems as though it creeps up earlier and earlier every year, slowly becoming a year-round occurrence. However, no matter how early our music industry overlords decide to begin marketing, one perennial problem remains: festival lineups are continually unequal. Women make up fifty percent of our population, and while they may not have hit fifty percent in the music industry, they do make up a significant portion.

buzz Magazine has been through many changes over the last few years. But in all those changes, our mission remains the same: to provide a student voice to stories about our community. We here at buzz aim to showcase the mundane to insane that happens here in CU, finding human stories everywhere in between. Three and a half years ago, I joined the buzz staff as a music writer.

What is love? No, not that Haddaway song from the 90s. Love as a concept is unique to each and every person who experiences it, whether it be towards family, a partner or a fluffy friend. But in any case, you’ll find love songs everywhere, even if they aren’t that obvious. In honor of the Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day, we here at buzz asked a host of local musicians to give us their definition of love, and how that impacts their songwriting.