depressing music

[lovelyunique]

 It is beyond me why so many people listen to really depressing music. Now dont get me wrong i like punk music,but in most of specifically emo lyrics are about slitting their wrists, suicide and junk like that.

I won't lie to you I mostly just listen to Indie...but sometimes (mostly when i'm feeling down) i'll listen to emo, but i could never

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[masquerade___x]

I'm not really into punk. Most of the music i listen to is emo and hardcore/softcore, some kind of CORE. there's so much more to a genre of music and a type of band than just their lyrics though, like the actual MUSIC they play. Not all of the emotions you get from listening to an instrumental band will make you feel depressed, and if it does haha then that must be on you. There's alot of amazingly talented instrumental bands and no one can really label them as "depressed", because there is no lyrics. That's the beauty of music, whatever emotions you feel when you listen to it, may be completely different than what someone else gets from it. And yeah, i'm not gonna try to be like retarded, most of "emo" music would make the average person depressed if you take their lyrics so seriously. But i really believe music is art, and art is expressing yourself. you can't take how someone else feels and make it so literal to your life that it makes you depressed. I don't really listen to the message the artist is trying to get across in their

[masquerade___x]

and i would say its alot easier to write about sorrow than joy, from first hand experience. It's alot easier to live depressed than actually get out and make something of your life and be happy, so why wouldn't it be just as easy to capture it?

[kelsee]

most people who are actually depressed definately depressed because it's easier. capturing any kind of emotion into song is hard, if its happy or sad, if you're writing an intense song that really conveys what you're feeling you have to put a hell of a lot into it to get your song to speak to people and make them feel what you were feeling when you wrote it. It's not fair to just talk about lyrics either, because it's much harder to write lyrics when you're trying to fit them to music, because they have to have the right rythm. And when you're actually writing music and not just poetry, the music itself has to convey your message just as much or more than the lyrics do. There are some really great songs that dont have the best lyrics or dont have any but are still amazing songs. Unless you've written music on an instrument it's hard to sympathize.

[kelsee]

aren't*
definately aren't* depressed.