Claim: I Want to Know What Love Is is a song.
Evidence: `` I Want to Know What Love Is '' is a power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner.
Sentimental ballads , also known as pop ballads , rock ballads or power ballads , are an emotional style of music that often deal with romantic and intimate relationships , and to a lesser extent , war -LRB- protest songs -RRB- , loneliness , death , drug abuse , politics and religion , usually in a poignant but solemn manner.