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Is popular music becoming sadder?
- eridius 14y agoWhat happens if you look at even earlier music?
- marquis 14y agoAs sad as it gets, from the 17th century: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMoRPxLdSQ0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMoRPxLdSQ0
- blackhole 14y agoI've tried repeatedly to compose songs in Major rather than minor, as I usually do, but I keep ending up with a fucking Pachelbel's Canon chord progression :| It just sucks you in like a whirlpool you have to constantly swim away from.
- huxley 14y agoNick Hornby wrote about the essentially sad nature of pop music in his novel "High Fidelity" (1995): "What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" The movie was good, the book is amazing. Teenage tragedy songs from the 50s or 60s are quite depressing (though the scenarios are pretty maudlin): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_tragedy_song http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_tragedy_song