Sad songs speak for everyone

In what is easily the best film ever to be set almost entirely in a record store, “High… In what is easily the best film ever to be set almost entirely in a record store, “High Fidelity” lead John Cusack’s sad-sack character Rob muses on his musical childhood: “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?”

Riffing off of Rob’s self-reflection, it should come as no surprise that misery and music have long come hand in hand.

Since the inception of pop music – arguably any time from the development of early southern blues to the breakthrough of Elvis Presley – artists have consistently been searching for better and better ways to convey their pangs of sadness.

The Rolling Stones understood that, “Wild horses couldn’t drag me away