Get into metal, synthwave or goth and you’ll never have this problem
Unsolved problems in other genres:
- Seeing whales
- Calling yourself Nemo
- Making a beast out of yourself
- Finding a rock to tie a piece of string around
- Watching a volcano carve the earth with unrivalled skill
- Watching yourself from the perspective of a mountain
- Being a melancholy spirit
- Being caught in a media blizzard
The substance of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ5T6bKbNo is why, and a great counter example.
(Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond)
The cowboy song about beating the devil in a music contest is about love and sex too, though, y’all.
The devil pretended to lose so he could seduce Johnny later
They’re all about a specific kind of love too. List. Either wanting someone or being head over heels with them with new relationship energy.
Or breakups.
That’s it. That’s every song.
“Why is every movie about love?” I ask myself, halfway through the 10th romcom I’ve deliberated selected to watch on Netflix
Love is a popular song topic but you’re free to listen to something else…
A small fraction of tv is full romance
(though most tvs shows have some romance in them, that’s a separate problem)
Feels like 80-90% of pop songs are about love/sex/lust/relationships
The point of the joke was that you’re choosing listen to the pop songs about romance. I guess a better analogy would have been “why does every candy have chocolate in it?”
Most people like love, most people like chocolate. They’re in a lot of popular things because they’re popular but they’re far from the only option
Like 50% of the music I listen to is in stores and restaurants and other such avenues, so not really no :(
Make the other half something else lol
I listened to music all day and I don’t think there was a single love song
There’s always power metal, if you want every song to be about flying across the mountains up toward the blackened sky-eeee
My kids love power metal, so today in the car we were listening to songs about Norse mythology, mining, and exploring the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Burning fires, burning lives on the long distant roads
Through the lost mountains endless so far away from home!
Where did the trope of the devil playing a fiddle come from anyway?
There’s a trope about it? The only fiddle thoughts I can think of are the song referenced in the op, and nero supposedly playing one while rome burned… though I don’t think it would have been a fiddle he was playing.
Yall listen to the lyrics in songs other than Velvet Underground’s and Nirvana’s? Yeah that must be annoying.
Weird Al has you covered.
- An entire compilation album about food
- A song about Albuquerque
- A song about taking out the trash
- A song about being White & Nerdy
The list goes on…
along similar lines, i enjoy Tom Cardy and Tim Minchin
And horoscopes! I learned the bridge to that song off by heart
album about food
Jack Stauber’s Pop Food is really good if you like weird pop about food. Adult Swim featured a couple of them in SHOP: A Pop Opera
Love Jack Stauber’s work! It’s cliche for him, but my god Butterfly is amazing.
so is his entire album Pop Insect
But they’re out of bear claws.
Shut up and eat your big ol’ bowl of saurkraut.
Edit: Wait, Albuquerque is a food song after all!
I mean, the forty-five minute donut breakdown was about the absolute absence of food, but the sauerkraut saves the day!
Bring back popular music that tells a story. I think that‘s fallen by the wayside. Like ‘60s counter culture, ‘70‘s music like Wayward Son, or even ‘80‘s Knopfler music like Romeo and Juliet.
lots of vocaloid artists I like have story to their songs.
Crusher, Vane Lily, etc
Oooh…anyone else love the Tenacious D song, “Tribute”?
Beelzeboss
Yesss.
I am once again bringing up The Tardigrade Song.
I stumbled upon Cosmo Sheldrake a few years ago thanks to a friend having a song or two from him in a playlist/radio playing in the background while hanging out. That style of music isn’t usually my favourite, but I love his stuff. It always has such a positive/chill vibe. “Pelicans We” is one of my favourite tracks, and his newest album, “Eye to the Ear”, is damn near perfection.
I ugly cry to Pelicans and I’m not ashamed of it.
As my high school English teacher pointed out, they’re not all about sex. Some of them are about Jesus.
(I don’t know why there aren’t any songs about sex with Jesus. Seems like a no-brainer.)
Because there’s already enough songs about guys that go to sleep after one shot.
Some of Sufjan Stevens’ walk a fine line between those two
Right? I grew up listening to emo and pop punk, but I had no idea what I was singing along to at the time, and being older I know that words matter, so I won’t be singing along to them now that I understand them either!
Where’s all the music about paying bills and being annoyed by your kids?There is an excellent album by Cheekface called “It’s Sorted” that talks about all kinds of mundane modern problems. They sound sort of like Cake with a comedic element.
Ohh cake’s one of my favs, will check them out
Awesome, I’ll be looking them up in my next free moment!
