Day #10 - Song that makes you sad
Aug. 13th, 2020 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatDay #10 of the 30 Day Music Meme. . The most frustrating thing about this meme, is I can't think of any songs that fit the meme. I know the perfect song, it's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember it to save my life. So you basically end up with whatever I decide to settle on in a fit of frustration.
Also, regarding songs that make us sad, and songs that make us cry - there's a world of difference. A song can be uplifting and make me cry - I always cry during a "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but it's not really a sad song.
Nor is "It's a Wonderful World" or Rachel Loy's "Big Sky".
So this is going to require work.
It's also possible for a song to be depressing and not make you cry. In other words a depressing song. Flirting with Paint it Black and Sounds of Silence - but they don't make me sad exactly.
Hmm. I don't want a love song, and about 85% are - I flirted with Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace and Bonnie Raitt's - I Can't Make You Love Me, If You Don't.
Okay, I found two and I'm splitting the difference between song that makes me cry and a sad song. Because I honestly don't know how to interpret this category.
The first is a song that makes me bawl...because it touches my soul, and I've had a difficult week, and I'm trying really hard to be brave and not scared, and this comforted me.
The other is sad, horrifying and painful blues song via Billie Holiday..
Also, regarding songs that make us sad, and songs that make us cry - there's a world of difference. A song can be uplifting and make me cry - I always cry during a "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but it's not really a sad song.
Nor is "It's a Wonderful World" or Rachel Loy's "Big Sky".
So this is going to require work.
It's also possible for a song to be depressing and not make you cry. In other words a depressing song. Flirting with Paint it Black and Sounds of Silence - but they don't make me sad exactly.
Hmm. I don't want a love song, and about 85% are - I flirted with Sarah McLachlan's Full of Grace and Bonnie Raitt's - I Can't Make You Love Me, If You Don't.
Okay, I found two and I'm splitting the difference between song that makes me cry and a sad song. Because I honestly don't know how to interpret this category.
The first is a song that makes me bawl...because it touches my soul, and I've had a difficult week, and I'm trying really hard to be brave and not scared, and this comforted me.
The other is sad, horrifying and painful blues song via Billie Holiday..
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Date: 2020-08-14 12:04 pm (UTC)Will try again.
I went through a 100 some songs, and 50% of them I didn't find sad at all - but if they resonate that way to the person who selected them? It's a sad song. This is a very personal choice. Such as my selection? Sending you Light and Strange Fruit may not be considered sad to someone else, or touching, or make them cry - but that's how they effect me. Just as Lara's Theme may not make someone else sad - but it makes you sad because your mother sang it and it reminds you of her.
she would sing "Lara's Theme," one of the few times she would sing any piece of music.
How does one sing Lara's Theme - it's an instrumental orchestration not a song. Am I missing the song version?
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Date: 2020-08-14 12:50 pm (UTC)"La...la...laLA...."
I can still hear her voice. It's a cherished memory, but it still makes me sad.