Why does most popular music seem to focus on two subjects:

[grannylib]

Love and pain? My daughter and her friend and I were talking about this and it seems that most songs are, in one way or another, about these two subjects.
My daughter is a budding musician, and she says she is going to write music about novelty lights and cashews...think it'll catch on?? *LOL*

[GOPisEvil]

1. Universal in concept...

...almost everyone has felt love and pain.

I like cashews - I might dig that tune. :D

[wysimdnwyg]

2. I want to hear a song about...

Sea Monkeys!

[wingnut]

4. There was a band

named 'The Sea Monkey'

[grannylib]

5. Hey that's a good one...I'll let her know! I can just hear her giggling

now...if you have ever seen "Daria" you have a little idea of my youngest; very dry humor, intensely liberal and very politically aware, speaks in a monotone most of the time, but she's hilarious and I am nuts about her.

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. "Palace of the Brine" by the Pixies.

It's a song about Sea Monkeys.

[gator_in_Ontario]

3. when I saw this

my first thought was "sex and drugs":evilgrin:

[grannylib]

6. Exactly! Just variants on the theme (with some possible confusion on

equating sex with love)

[tridim]

7. That's why I like Beck

He writes about everything.. Love, pain, hate, sorrow, death, drugs, work, life, the brain, cars, alcohol, god, the devil, ego, assholes, jerks, slacking, laziness, money, weird people, food and politics.

Pop stinks.

[mitchum]

8. because those subjects are both universal and banal...

genius determines which side wins out

[RUexperienced]

9. Love and Pain? Sounds more like poitics

[markses]

10. Your general subject - love - is minimal!

It's sex for profit.

- Chuck D

(Of course, he's wrong.)