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.

Nick Hornby
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Many people, when they first come across a sad song, think that it is because their life is going wrong. However, as time goes on and they start to understand what the song is talking about, they often realise that the singer’s problems were not that big and that the song was indeed sad because of the events happening around it. They don’t cry because their life is going wrong; they cry because their life has been going wrong for a long time and it will continue to go wrong for a long time to come.

Source: High Fidelity

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