
Originally Posted by
Neo Emolga
Same here, I've found time and repeated listening often numb the melancholy feelings, but traces are often still there. The songs I listed above don't cause nearly as much of an emotional burn as they used to, but at one point they did. Usually it's the lyrics, sound, and what I'm currently going through in life that tugs an emotional cord. Some of the songs I mentioned above, such as 9 Crimes and I've Changed touch on suicide while Jealous of the Angels, Where'd You Go, the Morrissey Song, and Anthem of the Angels deal with the loss of a loved one, something I was hit brutally hard with when my mom passed away. Heck, when Harry first showed me Jealous of the Angels only a short while it happened and I blogged about it, I was freaking bawling and avoided listening to that song. I couldn't stomach a second round of that.
The stuff from video games is often from the way they sound and the moment in the game where they're played. The Arnhem Knights song doesn't really have the same effect unless you've played Medal of Honor Frontline and went through the level where that song is playing and you're fighting through a village that's been absolutely brutalized by war, struggling your way through pure hell, all while watching your NPC allies get killed. Meanwhile, the whole time, you know in the back of your mind that grizzly stuff like that really did happen in World War II. It makes you choke up and feel sympathetic or angry. Some of the others can cause pings, especially if you can relate to and feel sympathetic with the characters. In Final Fantasy VII, when Aerith/Aeris dies, Cloud's quote of something along the lines of "she'll never laugh, cry, or get angry again" burn hard and deep, especially when that music is going on. You've gone through half the game with her, seeing what makes her personality up and feel like a real person, so you can sympathize with Cloud when he's holding her dead in her arms and has trouble letting her go. The same thing goes for the whole ending of PMD2. The emotions and events those characters go through are things we often see in ourselves, and that's how you connect with them.
There's nothing wrong about having melancholy feelings about stuff like that.
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