You bet they are smutty. But sometimes they're just plain cheesy and full of self-pity. Which is why I love them so much. But the slang kills me! There are so many words where you don't know wether they are actually people's names, or something that only exists in Argentina, and so on.

She was my whole life, like a spring sun, my hope and my passion, ans she knew that the world wouldn't be enough to contain the humble joys of my poor old heart...