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Pop Songs Have Grown Angrier and Sadder

Saturday, 26 January 2019, 16:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 24

A study of popular music over the last 60 years by Lawerence Technology Institute of Michigan has concluded that lyrics and tone have become gradually more angry and sad over time. Since these are the popular songs of the time, the changes is not due to the performers but to the audiences who prefer this music. More

24 Comments on Pop Songs Have Grown Angrier and Sadder

  5. Pop music has also become more repetitive not to mention using fake musicians. Even the real musicians from today’s popular groups suck. The glory years of quality pop music was the 80s. I just got back from a road trip where I was listening to my friend’s playlist that was mostly from the 80s. Good stuff.

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  7. What sells it what record execs push….CRAP, it’s manufactured product to them and just like what keeps cnn, et al in business, it’s the idiots that think they’re suppose to buy what they hear on the radio or the teewee. Always been that way, just worse with time. Doltish teenyboppers and gansta thugs get rich while thousands of extremely talented musicians can’t quit their day job. Personally I like mostly instrumental music, especially the various forms of Jazz, nobody gets depressed or pissed off if you just shut up and play.

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  9. Take me back to the 50’s, please. So many major studios recorde “live”, overdubs very done. Patti Page did them, Les Paul created ways to make many hit records. Melodies were the name of the game. good vocalists helped. Rock came along with mediocre singers, but with a catchy tume. Most of it was happy, escapism music. I am glad I have a huge collection of vinyl and cds that cover that era.

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  13. I think Bruno Mars sums it up best…

    “I’d catch a grenade for ya (yeah yeah)
    Throw my head on a blade for ya (yeah yeah)
    I’d jump in front of a train for ya (yeah yeah)
    You know I’d do anything for ya (yeah yeah)
    Oh whoa oh
    I would go through all this pain
    Take a bullet straight through my brain
    Yes I would die for you baby
    But you won’t do the same
    No no no no..”

    That’s some uplifting shit right there.

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  21. Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Traffic, Phish, Widespread Panic, Little Feat, The Band, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the list goes on. Fuck pop music.

    Oh, almost forgot, I wouldn’t piss on Paul McCartney if he was on fire.

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  22. Hey dude,
    you got me down.
    This is a sad song
    so it’ll sell better.
    Remember, to stab her in the face,
    and then you will know
    if she carries mace.

    Paul McCartney, cashing in on the newest trends.

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