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mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:30 am

My wife was listening to an "easy listening" station on Amazon or Pandora the other day, and half of the songs on there were plodding and drudgy, even if the lyrics were upbeat. All these piano driven ballads that sound like they were ripped from a depressing foreign film and had beats and vocals added. When did dirgey pop songs get to be a thing?

highkoo · Post by **highkoo** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:49 am

Cuz everyone is sad.
Wait til all the hip hop is post-lean-rehab.. Thatll really be depressing.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:52 am

Uh... since the 80s, with bands like the Smiths. I couldn’t listen to that whiny mope then and I still can’t. Not to say that I don’t like a good depressing Radiohead song, but I don’t find them mopey.

Unaspected · Post by **Unaspected** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:49 am

zerocrossing wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:52 am Uh... since the 80s, with bands like the Smiths. I couldn’t listen to that whiny mope then and I still can’t. Not to say that I don’t like a good depressing Radiohead song, but I don’t find them mopey.

Pretty much this. Mix in a little Counting Crows and you're done.

The error made, however, was in the selection of "Easy Listening" - you want some dnb to avoid the mopes.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:53 pm

Unaspected wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:49 am
zerocrossing wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:52 am Uh... since the 80s, with bands like the Smiths. I couldn’t listen to that whiny mope then and I still can’t. Not to say that I don’t like a good depressing Radiohead song, but I don’t find them mopey.
Pretty much this. Mix in a little Counting Crows and you're done.

No, not quite that.

There have been tons of whiny tracks. Sure Morrissey and Thom Yorke can be whiney, but at least they sound like they had the strength to get out of bed in the morning.

What I am talking about is songs where they don't even sound like they have the energy to finish. Like the band has been recording for 72 hours straight and doesn't give a f**k. Beyonce's "Halo" may not be the best example, but if you read the lyrics, it is a song of admiration and gratitude for one's partner. If you were to listen to it sung in Vorlenska, you might think it was about being devastated by a breakup.

excuse me please · Post by **excuse me please** » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:01 pm

The House of The Rising Sun?

Unaspected · Post by **Unaspected** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:24 am

mumpcake wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:53 pm
Unaspected wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 9:49 am
zerocrossing wrote: Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:52 am Uh... since the 80s, with bands like the Smiths. I couldn’t listen to that whiny mope then and I still can’t. Not to say that I don’t like a good depressing Radiohead song, but I don’t find them mopey.
Pretty much this. Mix in a little Counting Crows and you're done.
No, not quite that.

There have been tons of whiny tracks. Sure Morrissey and Thom Yorke can be whiney, but at least they sound like they had the strength to get out of bed in the morning.

What I am talking about is songs where they don't even sound like they have the energy to finish. Like the band has been recording for 72 hours straight and doesn't give a f**k. Beyonce's "Halo" may not be the best example, but if you read the lyrics, it is a song of admiration and gratitude for one's partner. If you were to listen to it sung in Vorlenska, you might think it was about being devastated by a breakup.

I've noticed the trend in UK TV commercials, where they've hired some studio to record a middle of the road cover version of a song and completely ignored the emotion in the original performance. Just sapped it all out. So you get this twinge of nostalgia followed by the sensation of your bile rising up as the twinge becomes a convulsion because your body just wants to reject it all there and then.

When did pop music get to be so mopey