Originally Posted by the songcabinet
I think this move towards the positive, whether it's in personal energy, stories, communication, attitude really took off somewhere in the 2000's.

negative people, who just doesn't understand the fact that living organisms bends towards the sun..


Man, whachoo smokin?

All this positive stuff came in the 2000s....and look where we are now.

Negative gloom and doom prophets of finality are where it's at. No matter how happy you get ya still gonna die.

Organisms turn toward the sun because without it they'd die. In other words, they're struggling to survive.

Get unhappy! Quick!

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Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
Today it is almost completely switched. Through the angst and anger of grunge to rap and today's pop, country is the one here for the party, and talking to the average person. While rock has now pretty much encapsulating about what you happen to be pissed off about.


This morning on my way to work I heard Buck Owens' "Together Again" and thought about this change. "Together Again" is really, to me, a sad sounding but happy song. It's after the tears have stopped and the big line in the chorus is a subdued "Nothing else matters, we're together again." What really got me though is how simple the song is.

In the old days, a good bit of rock had sad lyrics but happy tunes: among those type songs were Don't Be Cruel written by Otis Blackwell and sung by Elvis, She Loves You by The Beatles, and Memphis, Tennessee by Chuck Berry. Then we have this Buck Owens thing mentioned above.

I kind of like the "sad lyrics, happy music" thing. Wish I could do it to my hearts content.