kadyellebee

I’ve always had a thing for songs in minor keys^[1]. Many songs that fit this description are kind of...um, depressing? It’s like they vibrate something in my soul that I can’t stop feeling. And it’s not that they make me sad; I get excited to hear them.

A few good examples:

• Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day
• Every day is exactly the same by Nine inch Nails
• Haunting Me by Stabbing Westward
• Faceless Man by Creed
• Bring me to life by Evanescence
• Fumbling towards ecstasy by Sarah McLachlan (which actually should be on the top of the list because I it so much)
• Are you happy now? by Michelle Branch
• Lucky by Biff Naked

And I thought of this when Every day... and Boulevard... played back to back when shuffling This isn’t all of them, by any means, just a few that popped in my head once I started thinking of it.

What do you think? Is it just my melancholy/istj-ness that makes me enjoy this? Or is it a musical phenomenon that some people are just more drawn to minor keys?

^[1] I’m not a music major, so maybe I don’t have these examples completely right. cori would know