Urban Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Quest, Sci-Fi, Time Travel and World Hopping, Steampunk, Action/Adventure, Modern Drama, Mystery, Slice of Life, Romance, and many more.
THIS POST DOES NOT EXIST, IT'S A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, MINIBIT IS NOT A GIRL WHO IDENTIFIES WITH SAD SONGS AND A LITTLE BIT SOMETIMES TEARS UP OVER THEM.
Far Away - Nickelback. Hits me when Scotty and I are doing the distance thing.
Thank You For Loving Me - Bon Jovi. I get really down on myself sometimes, gratitude songs invoke the feels
I don't know if a lot of the other songs I listen to when I'm down would count as 'sad songs'. I mean, they're about sad stuff, and I identify with them when I'm feeling down, but they're hopeful, and usually have happy endings, or at least a 'keep your chin up' theme. Like, 'Saturday Night' by Bon Jovi is one of my favourites when I've been having a bad time. Have a look at the lyrics:
Hey my name is Jim
Where did I go wrong?
My life's a bargain basement
All the good shit's gone
Been sleeping in my car
My dreams moved on
My name is Billie Jean
My love is bought and sould
I'm only sixteen, I feel a hundred years old
My fourth stepdaddy went and took my innocence away
The street life ain't much better
But at least I'm getting paid
(CHORUS)
And tuesday just might go my way
It can't get worse than yesterday
Thursdays Fridays ain't been kind
But somehow I survive
Hey! Man!
I'm alive
I'm taking each day a night at a time
Hey hey hey man!
I gotta live my life
Like I ain't got nothin' but this roll of the dice
I feel like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday Night
Same kind of 'shit's about as bad as it gets - but it can't keep going forever' theme in "Livin' On a Prayer" (Bon Jovi again), "Wasted Time" (Eagles), "Tidal Wave" (Owl City), "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (The Rolling Stones), and "Two Story Town" (Bon Jovi. Again. Guessed my favourite yet?)
Very few sad songs manage to touch me, because they lack humanity to me. Like they're not genuine. Well that and my natural reaction to just dwelling in sadness is anger, so go figure. "Woe is me" doesn't really work because of that. Those who do not put up a fight for their selves have it harder contracting my sympathy. One song that does touch me however, is;
Rather than just being about sad, it's about being defeated. More than about pain, it's about being exhausted. There's a sense of caring in it and acceptance that the world, the self and people are the way they are. It's not written to complain but to communicate to others and because of that contains a strength of character I simply can't find in most sad songs.
I listen to 'Hurt' at least once a day. It's sort of a motivator for me, "There's no going back or doing it all over again, so you better get it right first time."
High fantasy, modern fantasy, gaslamp fantasy, Anything Fantasy, dark comedy, supernatural, paranormal, psychological, essentially everything except slice-of-life and historical.
No lyrics for this one, but if anyone listens to it, perhaps you'd understand how I feel. Even without lyrics it is one of the most demoralizing songs I know of. I feel like it fully describes my experience with depression, anorexia and PTSD.
Say something by AGBW and Christina Aguilera makes my heart weep. It's too close to home and pretty much embodies everything that has been going on in my life recently.
