sad songs make me happy

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Líder: loneswan
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Criado em: 20 Jan 2009
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I don't particularly find happy music says anything about my life. You know, the world is kind of... human beings spend most of their time kind of in a state between sadness and happiness... just existing... but we have incredible moments of clarity of power and they tend to be either incredible moments of sadness or incredible moments of joy. And they don't feel far between, you know, you think of a year and the amount of time you actually spend on some kind of emotional trip – negative or positive – it is a very small amount of the time. Most of the time you just go into work, you go to the pub, you have your dinner, you watch your TV... You're not really having any great emotional swing. And the really strong emotional swings come very occasionally, either negative or positive. When you're happy... when I feel happy, I don't really feel inspired to write songs. But when I feel sad, I feel I need some kind of release, some kind of way to come to terms with what I'm feeling. It is like an exorcism of feelings, of thought, emotions, of negativity. And the interesting thing is that I think that if you're a song-writer and you write very sad, very melancholic songs... there's an irony going on which is that people ironically find that very uplifting. And I think the reason they find it uplifting is that it makes them feel like they're not alone. They're feeling that way, do you understand?

So I think sad songs ironically make people feel more positive. And conversely, very happy music can make you feel very depressed if you're not in the right state of mind to enjoy that music. So I've always found when I was growing up that I was gradually taken towards more darker, more melancholic music – it made me feel good, it made me feel as if I was not alone in feeling those feelings and those emotions. And I guess that's carried through to my own work in that I only feel inspired to write music when I'm feeling something negative that I need to somehow express, somehow need to exorcise from myself.
There are so many people that tell me they find those songs so beautiful and so uplifting and they can relate to them so much. And they make them feel better and more positive and not all alone and all that stuff.

It's a funny thing the way it works. If you think of all the classic songs of all time most of them tend to be ballads, you know, very enduring music, there's a lot of ballads and a lot of sad music and I guess it's because people always sort of relate to those songs better.

(Steven Wilson)





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