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[changeling]

Why does happy music make me feel worse when I'm depressed, and sad music make me feel better?

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[fin.livejournal.com]

Because somebody else is happy when you're not, thus making you feel worse, and you can either identify with sad music, or at least think "Hey, the person singing's sounding more miserable that I feel, so that makes me feel better..."

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's quite it, but it's an amusing theory. :)

[gadge.livejournal.com]

Because you have better sad music than you do happy music?

Because you're secretly a goth?

Because when there's a difference between music unlocking the dark that you're trying to keep tamped down, and music matching the dark you've already let rise, thus meeting your mood rather than painting an inadequate counterpoint?

*shrugs* I'm not entirely sure. All I know is, I shouldn't be listening to Sigur Ros right now, but Weezer's 'Island in the Sun' is the right amount of wistful joy.

[dark-prophet.livejournal.com]

hmm, random piece of thinking: Happy music just emphasises that other people are happy, so you feel more depressed and actually isolated. Happy music sounds false because you can see the lies behind it. And I find that Depressing music is usually better than happy teeny-bopper, so it may just be identifying with good music.

Depressing music - you identify wqith, donm;t feel alone, do feel understood?

Or there's subliminal messages and stuff. They;re everywhere you know.