does anyone else listen to insanely happy music despite being suicidal?

[sadbadpsychogirl]

i do this a lot

 

[nerve]

I mostly listen to J-pop so

I figure like I'm already miserable, at least the music I listen to doesn't have to be.

 

[Dead beat dad]

Yep. It's kind of bittersweet in a way. Like laughing through tears...

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Most of the music I listen to is very fast-paced so I guess it could be considered happy.

 

[Symbiote]

I sometimes listen to early 90s euro dance hits for the heck of it.

 

[death137]

Some of the music I listen are happy.

 

[Deleted member 19654]

There's one song I love which sounds really happy but it's actually about being depressed. It's called fake happy by Paramore. I listen to that a lot.

 

[Good4Nothing]

Yep. I love Shonen Knife.
They're impossibly happy.

 

[Sensei]

The music I listen to nowadays is happy, aggressive, laid-back, funky, everything but sad. With few exceptions, I really can't stand sad music nowadays.

 

[GravityUtilizer]

The Smiths are a good shout cos often there's a happy-sounding melody to depressing af lyrics.

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

Yep. I love Shonen Knife.
They're impossibly happy.

i LOVE shonen knife! especially "brown mushrooms"

 

[Good4Nothing]

i LOVE shonen knife! especially "brown mushrooms"

You're my new favorite person.

 

[Disappointered]

No, I try to find dark/cynical music otherwise it brings me further down. I feel like I've exhausted Boyd Rice, Death in June and Current 93 but if I get any darker I'll have to listen to industrial noise with sadomasochistic themes, which I don't usually enjoy listening to.

 

[Lupgevif]

Yeah. Music I listen to rarely matches my mood.

 

[Sensei]

I feel like I've exhausted Boyd Rice, Death in June and Current 93 [...]

I didn't think anyone listen to those bands nowadays! "Total War", "The Torture Garden", "Lucifer over London" etc. are masterpieces. Do you like Sol Invictus and Diamanda Galas too?

 

[Disappointered]

I didn't think anyone listen to those bands nowadays! "Total War", "The Torture Garden", "Lucifer over London" etc. are masterpieces. Do you like Sol Invictus and Diamanda Galas too?

Yeah I only found out about them through youtube. I think I went from a type of extreme metal that focuses just on loud low vibrations to the Swans and somehow got to Coil (who I still love) from which I got to these bands eventually. I'd heard of Diamanda Galas but at the time I wasn't really interested in that style. If s/he is similar to these bands I'll search and try it out, thanks. I have come across Sol Invictus but it never caught on with me. Maybe will give it another try as well. I agree about the songs you mention, they're timeless masterpieces for sure.

 

[Deleted member 17949]

nah too happy for me

 

[Gnip]

I will be playing these on a loop when I exit on sodium nitrite or nitrogen hypoxia...:

 

[Jumper Geo]

What like the band below YES, lol but good song.



Cheers

Geo

 

[illbeinthegarage]

i listen to shit i know will purposefully make me feel even worse
why the fuck did it change my ; - ; to a crying face

 

[stygal]

I love upbeat music...especially electronic tunes you can dance to. I love to dance and sometimes cry while doing so, haha.

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

No, I listen to depressing music even when I am "happy".

 

[Rn110bg101]

I listen to all kinds of music, some of them are happier than others. Music makes me daydream so much that I end up forgetting I'm even in this world, heh

 

[sadworld]

No, I listen to depressing music even when I am "happy".

Me too. I just realised I actually almost never listen to happy music.

 

[mahakaliSS_MahaDurga]

Me too. I just realised I actually almost never listen to happy music.

I find it grating, really.

 

[StringPuppet]

I listen to a variety of stuff so yeah sometimes

 

[StateOfMind]

No, I try to find dark/cynical music otherwise it brings me further down. I feel like I've exhausted Boyd Rice, Death in June and Current 93 but if I get any darker I'll have to listen to industrial noise with sadomasochistic themes, which I don't usually enjoy listening to.

Are you familiar with this?

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

others that come to mind...

others that come to mind...

 

[Disappointered]

Are you familiar with this?

I think I saw that post earlier lol. I'm not familiar with it but it's pretty much what I was referring to. I'm familiar with some other ones including one in particular called "Pink Turns Blue" i think. it's all pretty fucked up. you've gotta be in pretty crazy place to end up devoting yourself to making that kind of 'music' lol. But apparently it's actually somewhat popular...not sure why i'm surprised given the recent popularity of things like 'fifty shades of grey'. I should probably start listening to it more so i can become more...manly, i guess.

 

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