[FredZarguna]

How is Something a ballad? It's a beautiful song, but it's just a love song. There really is no story being told.

[stanne]

I am with you, a ballad being, believe, being too unmotivated to look it up, traditional story telling, news reporting, actually, from times prior to printing. Which brings to mind some great ones I’d forgotten such as:

The Foggy Dew; Sinead O’Connor’s version.

I do think we are going by RS Magazine’s loose definition.