Why Are So Many Songs About Breakups?
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Breakups hurt. Songs can help. How many songs, exactly, are about breakups? I set up a little science experiment to try to find out. Join me as I analyze 500 songs to try and estimate how much of popular music deals with heartbreak. This video essay will try to answer this mystery: why are so many songs about breakups?
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Thank you for another great video that makes me emotional in a good way
thank you for watching! "Emotional in a good way" is how I'd describe how I feel after listening to a good breakup song. Or watching a video essay I particularly like. or watching a particularly poignant cat video, actually - anyway it's very nice to read this comment, so thank you :)
Staring at a spreadsheet is the #3 reason to contemplate life choices (bested only by writing a breakup song and hot sauce).
Oh my goodness, I have done all three of these things. Written an impressively bad breakup song, made a bet involving hot sauce (I won though - does that make it better or worse?), and stared at many spreadsheets. Time to contemplate my life choices in triplicate?
super well edited, scripted, and produced video! Hopefully the algorithm picks this up
thank you! every comment steers it in that direction, or so I've heard. but whatever the youtube algorithm does it always makes me happy to read that the video's worth a look, so thanks again. :)
Algo weird. Algo bad. I wonder if maybe the videos could be shared on reddit. This video would work for r/mealtimevideos at least!
@@transsexual_computer_faery Algo scares the heck out of me! I tried to learn a little bit about the youtube algorithm because why not. It Did Not Go Well.
the advice Algorithm Experts give is basically: do the opposite of how I do. post weekly! (but it takes some video-makers a long time to edit stuff?) find your niche! (but... what if you like lots of niches?) MAXIMIZE TRENDING TOPICS (what is this i don't even?)
This video has everything, data, heartbreak, spreadsheets, makeup
haha yes! I'm picturing this comment as the tagline to a 90s-style popcorn movie trailer. "coming this February to a Tube near You..."
Alexandra Kane Cinematic Universe when
@@quebaixo the moment I learn how to voice act so I can train myself to sound like the dude with the very booming voice from those 90s movie trailers!!
Joking aside, this was a very beautiful video and the conclusion was incredibly powerful
@@quebaixo aww thank you! really glad the conclusion worked. I feel kind of awkward sometimes that my style as a writer/video maker seems to get personal sometimes! never sure if it's oversharing or unhelpful.
but the way I think of it is this: I only publish a video if I feel like the topic is interesting or important. I can't say, broadly "here, viewer I may not know: here is the definitive TRUTH! about the whole topic! it definitely applies to YOU!" so, the most honest thing to do seems to be to explain why the idea is important to me. and then, I hope, that invites anyone listening to decide what they think about the topic for themselves on a personal level too.
This was a really good video to watch shortly after a breakup. Thank you!
Oh dang. Shortly after a breakup is a tough place to be. I never know whether the right thing to say is "I'm sorry you're going through that" or just "Yeah. Damn." For me, one time, a very comforting thought from someone I didn't know very well was this: "there it is, but I hope tomorrow's a good day." So:
I hope tomorrow's a good day.
Please do a video on why the media should apologize to the female celebs that they have hurt. Thanks.
Lead here by reddit, gave you a like and subscribe and comment on just the basis of how much data you had to sort through! The rest was icing on the top. Great findings and great video explaining and showcasing the results! Thought the end point was super human to see play out. ☺
deep dives are a fun genre of youtube video for me to watch so I tried making my own. thank you for checking this out! :)
I’m sick of songs about love and relationships in general
I was just listening to "I Want to Be Evil" by Eartha Kitt. it's very catchy if you like 50s music and want to hear a song that isn't about love, relationships or anything other than causing mayhem
Some songs are soooo good tho. Unbreak my heart? Absolutely amazing. I also love Avril Lavigne's 2002 album 💫
really interesting video! i commend the dedication to analyse 500 songs phew
thank you! i was surprised no one had tried this before. i thought SURELY some music magazine/pop culture blog at some point would have done some type of analysis like this. but apparently not? if such an analysis exists, it's buried on like page 8 of the Google results because i searched high and low!
Great video! Wish the algorhithm picks it up soon
Thank you! Hey, if you're here now that's a start. I won't pretend to be an algorithm expert but comments make my day.
If any subject needs a little attitude for seasoning, this is it. Thank you for putting this into perspective. And for finding the yowling cat.
Thank you 🙏🏻 very much Alexandra for your deep dive and shedding light 💡 on your experiment 📊
Plus for introducing me 🤝 to Tori Amos via “Hey Jupiter” 🎶 Never heard 👂🏻of this Miss before now 🤔
thank you for watching! Deep dives are some of my favorite types of video to watch, so I thought I'd try to make one myself. It's so cool to read that someone else is checking out Tori Amos!!! (I need more exclamation points, but it's always exciting to get to share)
I'm here for the Tori Amos content, also you are amazing and I really appreciate your videos!
Thank you!! adult me is living the dream of teenage me to get to share Tori Amos content :)
There's a lot of musicals about breakups.
Very true. I've been writing, editing, then deleting a script about a breakup-related musical for months. (Spoilers ahead because I can't explain why without spoiling the plot? Musical is a couple years old.)
Okay spoiler time now for: Waitress! One of my favorite things about Waitress is that it sets up the common romantic trope of having a bad relationship and a "good" relationship. The "good" relationship isn't actually all that great, but the romantic comedies I grew up with would show the main character leaving and living happily ever after with the Character Who's A Better Option. Waitress doesn't. The working title of the script for that video was "When Being Single Is the Happy Ending" but (as I often do with videos) I still haven't gotten that script to a place where I think the thesis makes sense.
@@maevemonroe The Last Five Years and 36 Questions does that too - the Last Five being my favorite of the two because of its unflinching brutality and dread coated in, "Lady stuck in a job she hates gets dumped by her boyfriend, twice, and the musical starts off with that before going backward to her idealistic first date juxtaposed with the boyfriend's current mistress."
36 on the other hand does the "two people find out they're just not right for each other," thing through 36 written questions.
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"70s fuckboi energy" FUCKING SENT ME
the lyrics to that song belong in the most toxic of tinder bios. "'Cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free / Baby baby don't get hooked on me"
then he's talking about her "trembling smile" because she "sees too much in him" -- BRO YOU MADE HER CRY PUT DOWN THE MICROPHONE
@@maevemonroe indeed :|