What Came First? The Music Or The Misery?

By Turk on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Thought of the day from the opening scene of the movie High Fidelity:

What came first? The music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns and watching violent videos, we’re scared that some sort of culture of violence is taking them over. But nobody worries about kids listening to thousands — literally thousands — of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

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