grrr... enough now.... (735 hits)
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Submitted by Vanilla (View user info) at 2004-07-25 07:03:31 EDT
A feeble attempt to get away from the stresses of another shitty day, I turn on the radio, and what do I hear? Another sad fucking love song. Switch stations, well, what have you got there... another love song just in a different genre. Switch stations again... and again...another sad love song.
Now, is it just me noticing this, or is everyone suddenly depressed and broken hearted?
I can understand how it's easier to feel and express negative emotion, but why express it in such a way that everyone else has to feel sorry for you and then eventually land themselves into a hole that they had no business being in, in the first place!!! Half these people don't even write their own songs. So... they're singing about someone else's bullshit.
But I'm guilty of that as well. Because after I got sick of listening to popular sad love songs, I turn on my computer, and open up my play-list. Fast-forward to the R&B list... my god, it's full of sad love songs, with the occasional rap ditties that talk about god knows what. All right, next try, let's try rock. Okay, not as bad, but my god... it's STILL there. Last try... Techno.... Shiiiit.... It's STILL there.
Why are these love songs so addictive? Why is emotional turmoil of a complete stranger sound so good put to music, and then forced on us to the point where we think we relate. Then when something does happen... We tune to that one song that got us particularly hard and let it eat away at us like some flesh eating virus, to the point where you just want to crawl under a rock and die.
Conducting a little experiment as I write this. I have my play list set to random, so there's over 1000 songs for it to choose to play, and the past 3 songs, have all been some form of love song. Isn't there anything else to sing about? (Note to self... isn't there anything else to download?!)
These songs are actually physically painful. They remind you of things, as all songs do. According to some study done somewhere, a favourite song releases the same brain chemicals (and about as many) as there would be released during a session of hot sex. Not half as fun though... but still the same.
Then there have been other studies shown that songs alter mood. So... if these love songs are so popular, does that mean that we all love them because they make us remember repressed painful memories (meaning we are all, in fact, depressed as fuck) or because they make us feel better knowing some person out there is feeling something equally or more painfully than we are? (meaning we are all, in fact, sadistic bastards).
Which brings me to my next point, we're all selfish. Rather than flood the radio waves with something more uplifting, the selfish bastards who write these songs are trying to get the rest of the world to feel bad with them. But then again, that can be debatable... that is, you can't make someone feel something through music that they don't already feel. Which is fine, but then why bring it up? We're also selfish because it's all about how you feel, all about what's wrong in your life, and all about how hurt you are. I'm guilty of this, not going to deny it, but I try to shut it most of the time. At the end of the day, you are the only one who cares about what's going down in your life. Did you hear that Usher? Yeah...
So please... before any of you aspiring artists out there decide to release your first hit, please bear in mind the fed up, angry fans such as I, who for once... would like to listen to something other than your rendition of a broken heart.
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-11-05 20:03:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
nah
if it's sincere it's alright
Submitted by sjmanikt (user info) at 2004-08-17 18:13:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
A love song doesn't affect the un-heartbroken with anything except maybe nostalgia.
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2004-08-16 20:24:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Stop listening to Pop.
Submitted by DlESEL (user info) at 2004-07-29 06:53:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Turn off the radio.
Submitted by melkorthedelerious (user info) at 2004-07-25 12:04:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
All I can say man is go for the eighties hair bands. There's still a few lovesongs, but mostly just stuff about having fun and breaking shit.
Submitted by sockboy (user info) at 2004-07-25 11:42:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
On an alternative to love songs, most of the ones I write are about sex, drugs, alcoholism, pornography, more sex, tits, sex, and the enjoyment of each of these
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-07-25 08:28:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I'm a sadistic bastard... And proud of it! On the other hand, most of my songs concern killing the devil, worshipping the devil, and, uhm... Killing stuff.
"what's the one thing in common the world over, bridging over language, religion, distance, and culture?"
Violence, it's the universal language!
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2004-07-25 07:28:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
what's the one thing in common the world over, bridging over language, religion, distance, and culture?
Yep. Love.
Media for the masses.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-07-25 07:22:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The reason is simple. Happy people do not go out and buy albums and lie on their bed listening to them for days on end. That is the act of a depressed, heartbroken person. So when you want to sell music, who are you going to try and relate to?