So I’m listening to Young Americans, and I hear this line, and I think, huh… yeah, probably. I actually came up with three that can get me going with some consistency:
- Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold
- Cat Power – Good Woman
- Tony Bennett – The Way You Look Tonight
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives. -Rob Gordon
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