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Genre/Style: Power Ballad

Touchstones: Mötley Crüe, “Home Sweet Home”; Bon Jovi, “Dead or Alive,” “I’ll Be There For You”; Guns ‘n’ Roses, “November Rain”

Themes: Promises, deception, responsibility, human/divine hierarchy

Myth: Io

Notable Telling: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses 1.567-666 (8 AD)