A bit of a bummer, you might say. Except it’s not. People write comments to the singer under the clip on YouTube, how the song lifts their spirits, amuses them and cheers them up.
It is not that Sueco meant his text ironically. He says everything seriously. But the energy that comes from his music is so strong that it could fill a stadium of depressed people for an all-night run.
Behind all the sadness there is strength and youth, a future chopped into notes.
Depressing music, lyrics, pictures or dances of young people are often more encouraging than the humor of old people. That’s why young people who long for really deep sadness, to express how much they feel without energy, should listen to Jiří Krampol and Zuzana Bubílková’s entertaining shows. On the contrary, old people could use encouragement deep down tracks by rappers, pumped up with explosive melancholy.
Music cynics. Štefana Švec’s column
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The still little-known but fantastic writer Jiří Drašnar, who died just ten years ago, chose a pessimistic theme for his best book: evil. A title with an unforgettable title About revolutions, secret societies and the genetic code it’s full of stories, examples and facts about what people throughout history have been able to do that is vile, insidious, sadistic or ruthless. Drašnar himself laughingly described how a certain reader told him that Lucifer must have written the book.
When you read that dark writing, you will be surprised how much positive power comes out of it. All that dump of horrors has somewhere in the core a powerhouse of creativity that organized it, built it and that shines through the written paragraphs. Read it and you almost want to dance. To death metal, of course.
With all this confused talk, I want to say only one thing: behind the content of what you read, listen to or look at, beyond the specific information contained in a work of art, there is something else. A special power, sometimes quiet and soothing, sometimes screaming and angry, still other times infinitely sad: there are a thousand kinds of it. This special charm is often the reason why we like the work, regardless of what is specifically in it. Mozart, Fauré and Dvořák Requiem they have exactly the same content. But each of them shines with a completely different light.
