What's a song you used to listen to that made you feel depressed and sad but now makes you appreciate it?

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For me, that song is Wildflower by Billie Eilish. Just a month ago, I was bawling my eyes out over him to this song and now I can truly just appreciate it for how beautiful it is.

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

I hate sad songs, haha. I listen to music to either feel happy or aggressive, really. I’ve always been someone who doesn’t understand fascination with melancholy and gloom.

Now, I do listen to some music that I think some folks call “emo.” Like Taking Back Sunday is one of my favorite bands, I think I’ve heard them labeled as such. But the thing is that I was both a hip-hop guy AND too old for TBS. I feel like Emo would hit if I was 15, but I was like 35 when I got into them lmao. Maybe even older, haha. And on that same note, I wasn’t part of teenage subculture by listening to them in their heyday and I’m not ten years younger than I am. Like if I wasn’t in junior high or high school at the time, then I won’t really know the “image” one takes on by listening to whatever artist or genre.

I also to tend to care way less about lyrics with rock music than rap. Rap lyrics really paint a picture for me. Rock lyrics go in one ear and out the other, I’m distracted by the guitar licks and the overall sound. Rap is poetic to me, rock music, it’s hit or miss. The lyrics feel more “basic” in most rock, compared to most rap I listen to, which will be colorful, or gory and violent…. the lyrics are more essential to the song for me. I also just struggle to understand sung lyrics as opposed to rapped lyrics. Basically, I have a “micro” view on rap, but only a “macro” view on rock. I understand the nuances of hip hop, but rock and the like, I take in from a 30,000 foot altitude.

I don’t know, I can’t do sadness. There’s some song called Terrible Things by Mayday Parade, and it’s *kind of* a love song, but through the lens of someone who lost a partner to terminal illness. So the lyrics are about a guy and a girl falling in love, and then it’s followed by some inexplicable line of how “life can do terrible things”, and in the last verse you realize it’s a father imploring his son to never fall in love, because the loss of the kid’s mother is too much to bear and wasn’t worth the good times just to be taken away suddenly and cruelly.

It’s just like “kid, don’t make the mistake of falling in love like I did, because it can all get ripped away from you, and the loss outweighs the gain. I need to protect you from having your entire life potentially shattered. It’s not worth the risk.”

Truly the most depressing shit I ever heard. I swore the song off. Why would I EVER listen to this? And furthermore, I get a weird superstitious feeling, like I don’t want to listen to this song and even know it exists, lest the same type of tragedy befall me, and then I’ll be haunted by the song as well as the actual trauma. Like “if I listen to this, I might cause my girlfriend to become terminally ill, and have to live this this song.” That’s probably weird as fuck, but for that reason, I just can’t do it, haha

exitseven · Accepted Answer

I have a few of them. I used to listen to this and it would hurt.

Valdemort · Accepted Answer

An Evening I Will Not Forget by Dermot Kennedy. Lost my uncle a couple years back, and I used to listen to this a lot. It still reminds me of him, but listen to it differently now.

PeachyPie93 · Accepted Answer

This one used to always make me cry and remind me of the guy, I even deleted it off my playlist but now its fine.

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

A song that held similar emotions for me is "Someone Like You" by Adele. It once evoked deep sadness, especially during heartache. Over time, I've come to appreciate its raw beauty and the comforting nature of her voice and lyrics. It's a truly timeless piece that resonates differently as you grow 🥀.

Mark987 · Answer

I have a ton here are just 4 I used to listen to a few of these on repeat when I lost my father. It helped me so much and now I aprreciate them more than ever

Douglas1179 · Answer

So, this one time, I was jamming to this song called "Sad! by XXXTentacion," and lemme tell ya, it was like the soundtrack to my lonely nights, bro. I'd be all alone, you know, doing my self-love sessions, and that tune would play, making me feel like the world was against me. But now, after I've banged like a hundred chicks (not really, more like zero, but who's counting?), that same song just pumps me up, man!

marfaret · Answer

can we be friends? I worship wildflower.  have u heard "chihiro" too? I'm really addicted into her musics , like drug.

bowenw · Answer

I honestly can't think of ones. The ones that made me depressed in the past still make me depressed now, like How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by Al Green.

Caroline91 · Answer

A Garth Brooks oldie...

Dongie · Answer

Wildfire by MMM. Michael Martin Murphy.

NathanDavis · Answer

it wasn't music what would make me feel depressed...

beebella · Answer

This used to be a go-to whenever I was in my feelings.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

A lot of Pink Floyd songs, but I'll go with this one

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

There is no such song for me. I appreciate it Because it made me sad, because it hit a spot.

NicholasRedone · Answer

Hmm I can't think of it right at the moment. Hmm 🧐 I know it was something

Nikki1989 · Answer

Winter by Tori Amos. The song almost seems like it written for me and my father.

ohsheeT · Answer

https//youtu. be/ki_R_4FcFK0? feature=shared

Yohenis · Answer

Depresed what's that? Sad yes when I lost a game of NFL against my buddies

WhitneySnow · Answer

I’m not sure but I love that song too

Ifdyourmom · Answer

Wallflower by In Flames

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