My boss and co-workers insist on having one particular radio station playing. It only plays finnish pop-music.
I can listen to pop-music, but the current playlist is depressing. Here, let me highlight some of the themes in the songs:
-A woman singing about how "other women might put up with your kind" but that she deserves someone better.
-A guy singing about how his girlfriend left him because he wasn't good enough for her and how he is now miserable.
-Two guys singing about how their girlfriends left them because they weren't good enough for them.
-"I want a modest funeral for myself, nothing fancy."
-"I am secretly following you everywhere and watching you sleep at nights, but this is not creepy because I am a ghost. ...Also, you are a bird."
Sad songs are very Finnish, I think it has something to do with the slavic melancholy that has entered our national psyche centuries ago, my issue is that most of those songs are just BAD. There are some decent one's like the christmas song from Leevi and the Leavings which goes "we wish you a miserable, grim, cold, dark and very unhappy christmas." Now that is a good song, sad enough to bring out tears in me but at least it is a good kind of sad. It's also about how the modern commercial christmas has taken over the holiday and people have forgotten the traditional christian meaning of christmas. (Yeah, yeah, there was the pagan meaning of chrismas as well before that but by now it IS an old christian tradition as well.)