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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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posted on
02/19/2020 12:27:56 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Cause sad songs say so much.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:28:15 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: All
Being a Generation Xer, two of my favorite sad songs are Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself” and The Motels “Only the Lonely”. Of course loved Carmen “stealing” the melody from Rachmaninoff and he wrote a Rachmaninoff like instrumental middle section in the long version of the song.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:31:17 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Of course loved Carmen stealing the melody from Rachmaninoff and he wrote a Rachmaninoff like instrumental middle section in the long version of the song.Manilow basically did the same thing on "Could This Be the Magic?" which he lifted from Chopin.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:32:32 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
“Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?”
A hot Climate Emergency?
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:32:37 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: C19fan
Popular songs for me today are 30 to 50 years old. It all depends whose definition of popular and what you consider a song. Synthesized voices, rap, hip hop and other trash don’t even qualify as music.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:33:27 PM PST
by
RubinBoomer
(Please be nice. I am new here. I'm open to doing things the FR way, just need to know.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:33:42 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Have!)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:34:10 PM PST
by
Gil4
(And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
To: dfwgator
There are only a finite number of [western music] notes?
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:34:14 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: C19fan
I suppose most transgendered Starbucks baristas with $90K in student debt who are hooked on heroin and concerned the planet won’t be able to support life in twelve years don’t have a heck of a lot to be cheery about.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:35:58 PM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: C19fan
What could possibly be sadder than any Morrissey song?
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:36:20 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
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. Meanwhile, it bugs the snot out of me when I'm in the grocery store and they start playing some CCR tune and then some stupid announcement comes on about eggs being on sale or some other useless information and screws up the whole shopping experience.
Hm, my old boss said I have hang-ups. I wonder if that's an example of what she meant.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:37:46 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: RubinBoomer
Popular songs for me today are 30 to 50 years old. It all depends whose definition of popular and what you consider a song. Synthesized voices, rap, hip hop and other trash dont even qualify as music.”
Agreed.
To: dfwgator
To: dfwgator
The 1970s had songs that could make you hang yourself if rope was near in an instant.
Seasons in the Sun. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, At 17, Cats in the Cradle, Send in the Clowns, Wish You Were Here...
Just Brutal.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:39:35 PM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
To: dp0622
Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan.
That song is so depressing I bet back in the day any radio station located above the third floor had to nail the windows shut to keep the DJ from jumping out the window.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:41:28 PM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: dp0622
My personal all-time favorite is the Alan Parsons Project’s “Silence and I”. Andrew Powell’s orchestration is just fantastic.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:42:08 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dp0622
The ultimate has to be Nilsson’s “Without You”, of course knowing the fact the writers of the song (Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger) ultimately wound up hanging themselves.
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:43:35 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
Cause sad songs say so much.
....clever my brother Daniel. ...
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:44:55 PM PST
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
To: C19fan
I live in the musical past so I wouldn’t know. All I do know is that much of what I hear sucks. The new stuff I hear on the Underground Garage kicks as much ass as any rock and roll ever did and it’s sure as hell not “sad”. Who’s got time for that?
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posted on
02/19/2020 12:45:24 PM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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