Right. What's This, Then? - "Is This Love"

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We interrupt your scheduled reading to bring you…an 80’s power ballad. Due to their association with the genre that popularized the song style, hair metal, power ballads often get a bad rap. Smirked at. BUT. There are some damn good power ballads out there, and not all of them were made by hair bands (although, some hair metal bands did make some outstanding power ballads.) Case in point: “Is This Love” is a single from Whitesnake’s self-titled (in the U.S. and Canada; it’s called 1987 in Europe) 8 X Platinum (in the U.S.) 1987 album. It’s a top-notch power ballad, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and #9 in the U.K.) And although the members of Whitesnake all had undeniably fantastic hair, vocalist David Coverdale in particular, they weren’t a hair metal band. They were a great hard-rocking blues rock band with 80’s metal tendencies. And they made a great power ballad. Fun Fact: According to Coverdale, the song was originally intended for Tina Turner. After Coverdale and guitarist John Sykes finished the demo, Geffen Records head honcho David Geffen told them to keep it as a Whitesnake tune. Link is to the official promotional video: