Science proves music is getting sadder...interesting read...
Excerpt:
In the 2004 essay “Just Send Me Someone to Love,” Brad Zellar claimed
all pop songs are either about love or desire, using the Hobbesian
definition that they are essentially the same thing, with desire
signifying absence and love signifying fulfillment. There’s nothing
cheerful about not getting what you want. I brought the essay to a
college class I taught to help us talk about motivation in short
stories. My students, lovely bright-eyed sophomores, were skeptical. By
the end of class I had convinced them that Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” is the saddest song ever recorded. I don’t teach that class anymore. It’s too depressing.
A year later I saw Katy Perry frolic onstage with two-dozen fans to
Whitney’s lonely girl anthem, and it was still sad. Katy Perry’s
Candyland concerts are even more depressing than Radiohead shows;
instead of shuffling through a crowd of neurotic 30-somethings all
wearing the same canvas shoes, you’re surrounded by 12-year-olds under
such immense social and academic pressures they’re nostalgic for being
8.
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