[dfwgator]

Cause sad songs say so much.

[C19fan]

Being a Generation Xer, two of my favorite sad songs are Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself” and The Motels “Only the Lonely”. Of course loved Carmen “stealing” the melody from Rachmaninoff and he wrote a Rachmaninoff like instrumental middle section in the long version of the song.

[Paladin2]

“Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?”

A hot Climate Emergency?

[RubinBoomer]

Popular songs for me today are 30 to 50 years old. It all depends whose definition of popular and what you consider a song. Synthesized voices, rap, hip hop and other trash don’t even qualify as music.

[CodeToad]

Doomers.

[Gil4]

Don’t know what you’re talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

[Buckeye McFrog]

I suppose most transgendered Starbucks baristas with $90K in student debt who are hooked on heroin and concerned the planet won’t be able to support life in twelve years don’t have a heck of a lot to be cheery about.

[dfwgator]

What could possibly be sadder than any Morrissey song?

[Texas Eagle]

Today's music is not much more than white noise to me. I can't think of a single pop song from the last 20 years that I know the lyrics to or who sings it. Meanwhile, it bugs the snot out of me when I'm in the grocery store and they start playing some CCR tune and then some stupid announcement comes on about eggs being on sale or some other useless information and screws up the whole shopping experience.

Hm, my old boss said I have hang-ups. I wonder if that's an example of what she meant.

[bigbob]

I live in the musical past so I wouldn’t know. All I do know is that much of what I hear sucks. The new stuff I hear on the Underground Garage kicks as much ass as any rock and roll ever did and it’s sure as hell not “sad”. Who’s got time for that?

[DannyTN]

I don’t know, but if Britney Spears can survive 2007, then we can survive this.

[right way right]

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!

[SaxxonWoods]

“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?

[circlecity]

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).

[Steely Tom]

Here's something rather uplifting that came from the sometimes-reviled 1970s. Amazing to listen to now.

Superman Flying Sequence, by John Williams.

[MayflowerMadam]

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.

[fr_freak]

Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?

Eh, they just need to reprogram the song-writing robot to make happier tunes. Of course, if the robot, itself, is depressed, probably about how much his songs suck, then you might have a system failure.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Another somebody done somebody wrong song

https://youtu.be/QyrRYIrhLL0

[Skooz]

Sinatra’s “Songs For Only The Lonely” and “No One Cares,” both masterpieces, were released in the 1950s.

Beck’s superb “Sea Change” was released in 2003.

Those are about as sad as you can get.

[Lexington Green]

Teen Angel