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Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?
Aeon ^ | February 4, 2020 | Alberto Acerbi, and Charlotte Brand

Posted on 02/19/2020 12:27:56 PM PST by C19fan

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Honey”


121 posted on 02/19/2020 5:59:55 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Fiji Hill
Yet we have all heard what a family influence will do to a person. I cannot fault the boy in his case and the last line says it all.

Patches oh what can I do?
I swear I will always love you.
It my not be right, but I'll join you tonight,
Patches I'm coming to you.

122 posted on 02/20/2020 12:52:59 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister
Dickie Lee didn't have the courage to defy his parents or sneak off and see her. And he his decision to commit suicide was based on hearsay. Patches would have been better off if she had had Jerry ("Midnight Mary") or James as a boyfriend.
123 posted on 02/20/2020 6:28:39 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: 2111USMC
That's a happy song!

Honey--Ben Selvin's Knickerbockers

124 posted on 02/20/2020 6:32:13 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: ifinnegan
Al Jolson. Sonny Boy.

Great tune. I also like Ruth's version.

Sonny Boy--Ruth Etting (1928)

125 posted on 02/20/2020 6:36:18 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: mlo
"Today's music is not much more than white noise to me. I can't think of a single pop song from the last 20 years that I know the lyrics to or who sings it."

Said somebody in 1960.

Kids! They are just impossible to control!
Kids! With their awful clothes and their rock and roll!
Why can't they dance like we did?
What's wrong with Sammy Kaye?
What's the matter with kids today?

--Lee Adams, 1960


126 posted on 02/20/2020 2:25:35 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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