'"Sad" is like "happy" for deep people.'
Sep. 24th, 2010 08:44 pmI think I am in love with E minor. Also: the term 'positive gloom.'
I kind of wish I had perfect pitch so I could tell what percentage of my favourite songs are written in this key ...
I also wish I had a succinct way of explaining to 'normal' people why I enjoy melancholy music so much. Occasionally I meet others with the same musical tastes, and none of them have a way of explaining it to the major key masses either. I am not a sad person. It is not because it is, as a former roommate put it, 'music to slit your wrists by' – in fact, it's music not to slit your wrists by, because it takes the edge off feelings of frustration and anxiety and generally wishing the world would just shut up and leave you alone. It's contemplative, and quieting, and cleansing in a way, like a long hot soak in the tub. A soak in the tub sans toasters and hair dryers, I might add.
Here, have possibly my favourite Decemberists* song, and imagine it's raining on a Saturday in February when you don't have anything pressing to do. Is it E minor? I don't know. It works for me.
*or 'the Depressionists,' according to my dad
I kind of wish I had perfect pitch so I could tell what percentage of my favourite songs are written in this key ...
I also wish I had a succinct way of explaining to 'normal' people why I enjoy melancholy music so much. Occasionally I meet others with the same musical tastes, and none of them have a way of explaining it to the major key masses either. I am not a sad person. It is not because it is, as a former roommate put it, 'music to slit your wrists by' – in fact, it's music not to slit your wrists by, because it takes the edge off feelings of frustration and anxiety and generally wishing the world would just shut up and leave you alone. It's contemplative, and quieting, and cleansing in a way, like a long hot soak in the tub. A soak in the tub sans toasters and hair dryers, I might add.
Here, have possibly my favourite Decemberists* song, and imagine it's raining on a Saturday in February when you don't have anything pressing to do. Is it E minor? I don't know. It works for me.
*or 'the Depressionists,' according to my dad