Belt it out, set it free and put your lighters in the air my babies, let's talk ballads.
Whether lamenting love gone wrong or celebrating life in all of its failures and majesties, roses and thorns, purple rain and vivid pain, power ballads are the FM heart beat of the human experience.
Just as there's a fairy tale, cookie, dog breed, movie villain, power color, sex toy, and flower for each zodiac sign, so too is there a power ballad.
Read on and turn it up.
There’s a whole lotta music happening in Chicago this summer outside of the big arena and stadium tours. Here are our picks for shows in more cozy confines.