LOL, this guy agrees.
Posted on 02/19/2020 12:27:56 PM PST by C19fan
Are popular songs today happier or sadder than they were 50 years ago? In recent years, the availability of large digital datasets online and the relative ease of processing them means that we can now give precise and informed answers to questions such as this. A straightforward way to measure the emotional content of a text is just to count how many emotion words are present. How many times are negative-emotion words – ‘pain’, ‘hate’ or ‘sorrow’ – used? How many times are words associated with positive emotions – ‘love’, ‘joy’ or ‘happy’ – used? As simple as it sounds, this method works pretty well, given certain conditions (eg, the longer the available text is, the better the estimate of mood). This is a possible technique for what is called ‘sentiment analysis’. Sentiment analysis is often applied to social media posts, or contemporary political messages, but it can also be applied to longer timescales, such as decades of newspaper articles or centuries of literary works.
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ROFLMAO!!!!
LOL!!
Man what the HELL was going on back then.
I LOVE some of the songs but I only listen to them want I want a good night of sulking in a bottle :)
ROFLMAO!!!!
LOL!!
Man what the HELL was going on back then.
I LOVE some of the songs but I only listen to them want I want a good night of sulking in a bottle :)
I don’t know, but if Britney Spears can survive 2007, then we can survive this.
How Soon is Now? is IMHO the best song from the 80s.
Without You!!!!! Definitely a sad song
I guess they went from “I can’t live” to “I couldn’t live”
BOTH hung themselves?
wow
Because everything today is sappy and self loathing, emoting self pity and, people lap it up as if it’s some kind of shared virtue!
“Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?”
Can you imagine “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” being a hit today with liberals?
People been using the blues and country music to cry in their beer since the first days people were picking cotton and tobacco down south. Blues met Jazz in New Orleans; Country met both everywhere and created Rock, folk, and RnB. Lot’s of tears the whole way. RnB gave us the bastard stepchildren of Disco, Rap and modern pop. (more tears, many more tears). (Whereas 60’s-70’s pop and bubblegum was a very creative and interesting genre).
Superman Flying Sequence, by John Williams.
Or, “Shiny Happy People”.
To which I loved Dennis Leary’s response....
“Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey! Pull that bus over to the side of the pretentiousness turnpike, alright!? I want everybody off the bus. I want the shiny people over here, and the happy people over here, ok! I represent angry gun-toting meat-eating f...ing people, alright!” Sit down and shut the f... up Michael! “
lol Yep! Go check out “Decline of Western Civilization: Metal Years” and you’ll see this is all cyclical... again. Bret Michaels has a line in it where he says (just the gist, because I can’t remember the exact words): “We were out there singing about sex and drugs and rock and roll, and here’s all these angst-ridden bands coming out singing about their parents hating them and how awful life is. Who knew that was going to be a thing?”
Years ago, someone in the country music industry (I forget whom) said: Happy songs sell records. Sad songs sell beer.”
That said, I think there are more sad songs today because most musical artists are leftists, and as we all know, leftists don’t know how to do anything but complain all the time.
I wouldn’t know. I haven’t listened to a “pop song” since maybe the ‘80s. I hear them in passing sometimes and think, “Who the hell can listen to that crap?”
My young nieces, nephews and their friends are in to the ‘60s and ‘70s stuff. Sha Na Na, Manhattan Transfer, Motown, etc.
I always think of Mr. Carlson and the Thanksgiving episode. ..you know. ...the turkeys?
Said somebody in 1960.
LOL, this guy agrees.
We have a touch of Nilsson in the night...oldies. Never knew about Without You. Something to look up.
Whatever happened to that guy? He was great.
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