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My impression is that sad music tends to have more substance than happy music. Happy pop music is especially guilty of this where: "it's the summer, everyone is
by formalsystem 7y ago
My impression is that sad music tends to have more substance than happy music. Happy pop music is especially guilty of this where: "it's the summer, everyone is having a good time etc..."
I'm really drawn to metal because it creates something beautiful out of difficult emotions. I actually don't get the association to anger at all, it's like saying people who like watching action movies are psychopaths.
I would argue that more art is rooted in pain than in happiness.
- asark 7y agoFundamentally, there's no narrative, in the sense of a story or an emotional journey, without conflict. Luke may blow up the Death Star, but Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru got BBQ'd, Obi Wan died, and a lot of friendly pilots were vaporized along the way. And that's a relatively happy movie. Moreover, to the extent that art is to help us grapple with difficult things, well... happiness isn't that difficult. Now, good circumstances but unhappy anyway? Then you've got something to build a story on.