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Love. Love is in the air. Love is everywhere. Love can be interpreted in countless different ways. Which is exactly why we asked some of our favorite photographers to contribute an image that represents love to them. Click through the gallery to see what they came up with. Ya might love it!

Thursday is coming up for all you lovers and singletons out there. I have no plans because I am alone-that’s a choice and I love myself! There's only one thing I need—it’s tangible and will last FOREVER. Single or attached, the '90s are back in a big way with Texas is the Reason's entire discography, now available through Revelation Records. Do You Know Who You Are? The Complete Collection is the right amount of love you can give your ear buds this Valentine’s Day.

Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Obey City has curated a “Smooth Jams” series of his favorite tracks. Today’s installment is sure to get your heart pumping and those loins burnin'. Plug in your headphones and crank up that volume, because it's time to get smooth.

Among the new music that will reportedly be added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry today are some surprising gems.

If you spend all your time browsing the web's vast array of entertainment websites—something we never, ever do—then you've no doubt encountered many a recent mention of two very handsome young men with affinities for form-fitting suits. Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling, who were surely pals back in their Micky Mouse Club days, have been rivals of sorts this week on the movie promotion carousel, shifting into charm overdrive to promote Friends with Benefits and Crazy, Stupid, Love respectively. So who does it better?

Free-flowing vodka and heavy beats led to some fairly candid confessions at the mega-rappers hip-hop inaugural ball at DC's Love club last night. Pictured is Remia Hamilton, makeup artist extraordinaire of Georgetown, who hates everything that rap is associated with (“drugs, crime, exploitation”) but “showed up anyway to celebrate the new President.” Attorney and mother Teresa Mann “doesn’t give a shit about any of ‘em [Puff Daddy, Young Jeezy, and T.I]” but drove all the way from Atlanta, Georgia, to plot her seduction of the 44th POTUS. “It only takes one look,” she explained, though she has nothing but respect for First Lady Michelle. “She looks like us, she talks like us, she has the same degrees we do. I love her.”

Barack Obama’s security detail is an Orange County cheerleading squad next to the linebacker thuggery that shields America’s top rappers from the unwashed. Getting into Young Jeezy’s Inaugural Ball at Washington’s Club Love last night was like watching a rap video in reverse: first came the flashing cop cars, then the gangstas roughing you up, followed by B-roll of floor-humping throngs, and finishing off with a beautiful honey taking your drink order in iambic pentameter -- fade to black and a slow needle scratch.

You’re old enough to dance the night away.