For example, "If You Wanted a Song Written About You, All You Had to do was Ask" by Mayday Parade (great title right?) is an angry song. If you aren't familiar with the song, you should be. Some of the lyrics go like this:
Take me home,
I'd rather die than be with you.
Take me home,
You had a problem with the truth.
Fun, right? I'm not sure what attracts me to angry songs, but I love them. Even when I'm not angry which doesn't really mean much considering I'm never not angry, but it counts for something. It's not the head-bobbing factor, as not all angry songs are fast or have a good beat for head-bobbing.
I think it's the fact that anger means more to me than happiness. Anyone can fake happy; it's not hard. You put on a smile, laugh a little louder than everyone else, and no one will think twice about how you feel. But anger is different. Anger is harder to fake, and, for some people, harder to keep.
You can literally feel when someone is angry. It's almost as if the air changes. In an instant, the mood of the room shifts, because of one person. That's power happiness doesn't have.
A love song can't make you trash your room. A sad poem can't make you say exactly what you want to. But angry music can.
So thank you, "Discovering the Waterfront" (Silverstein) and "When I Get Home You're so Dead" (Mayday Parade) and "Ohio is for Lovers" (Hawthorne Heights) and "Running From Lions" (All Time Low) and "Newport Living" (Cute is What We Aim For) and many, many, many others.
I wouldn't be me without you.
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