- Not really any more - Much much less - Erm I guess when I was a teenager, a sense of emotional resonance?
I mean as miss_newham says I don't like it b/c it makes me miserable, and I'm not miserable in that way any more. Which is why I haven't listened to the Portishead album very much! With music like that, and Tori/PJ etc at their angstiest, you have to be really invested in the emotions they're hurling at you.
I do listen to a lot of sad/wistful/melancholic music, esp when I'm hungover or it's depressing outside, eg Junior Boys, Superpitcher...a lot of it is instrumental though, which means that the sadness isn't the only element by any means, though as Anna-Marie wrote about Akiko Kiyama (http://www.thelipster.com/articles/3140719), all minimal is secretly emo. Actually that kind of vague, unspoken sense of dread is something which crops up in a lot of my favourite pop as well - Cassie's 'Me & U' and All Saints' 'Black Coffee' spring to mind.
Listening to big emotional pop ballads like 'No Air' and 'We Belong Together' is more of a theatrical thing than immersing yourself in the unremitting bleakness of Portishead, they make you identify with the emotion without actually making you miserable. I guess the bleakest music I listen to on the regular is probably dubstep or something, doomy instrumental stuff.
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- Much much less
- Erm I guess when I was a teenager, a sense of emotional resonance?
I mean as miss_newham says I don't like it b/c it makes me miserable, and I'm not miserable in that way any more. Which is why I haven't listened to the Portishead album very much! With music like that, and Tori/PJ etc at their angstiest, you have to be really invested in the emotions they're hurling at you.
I do listen to a lot of sad/wistful/melancholic music, esp when I'm hungover or it's depressing outside, eg Junior Boys, Superpitcher...a lot of it is instrumental though, which means that the sadness isn't the only element by any means, though as Anna-Marie wrote about Akiko Kiyama (http://www.thelipster.com/articles/3140719), all minimal is secretly emo. Actually that kind of vague, unspoken sense of dread is something which crops up in a lot of my favourite pop as well - Cassie's 'Me & U' and All Saints' 'Black Coffee' spring to mind.
Listening to big emotional pop ballads like 'No Air' and 'We Belong Together' is more of a theatrical thing than immersing yourself in the unremitting bleakness of Portishead, they make you identify with the emotion without actually making you miserable. I guess the bleakest music I listen to on the regular is probably dubstep or something, doomy instrumental stuff.