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

But then dying is good, right? laugh

Of course positive songs is not anything new, but I think the wall you'll meet if you don't write'm is. I tried to make the point that the current "tyranny of the positive" is a corporate trend invading music business, not an artistic one. So this is not about personal tastes. What is judged 'positive' and 'negative' is after all, in the eyes of the beholder, when it comes to discussing philosophical truths.

But, as an outside songwriter, I wouldn't dare showing up with a pointless introverted ballad these days. Artists get away with that, because it can work as a personal statement and identity builder, but songwriters just can't get away with that.

Yet corporate or not, my common sense bet is that feelings of joy & hope, will beat despair by a million miles! Today, tomorrow and foreeever wink

I think the one hard thing most folks can't do, is to separate their own emotions from others emotions. If you're feeling despair, that's fine, but you have to write a song about overcoming it to get it across.. unless you have the priviledge of being an artist.