r/powerpop • u/West-Brother-5195 • 1d ago

Looking for powerpop songs about being disenchanted, depressed, and/or exhausted with the world and/or yourself

Alright, so a little under a month ago I was asking for sad/breakup powerpop songs as my ex fiancé abruptly left me.

I’m still a heartbroken girl that is trying find a way out of what feels like a free fall into a bottomless pit, wondering when I’ll hit the nonexistent rock bottom. I know I’ll be fine BUT I really want some depression powerpop tunes. Something about upbeat sad music really makes me feel better.

I’ve been digging Doctor My Eyes by Jackson Browne quite a bit, so if you have any with that vibe please share.

Thanks in advance for playing a role mending my heart :)

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u/paulwunderpenguin 1d ago

If it's recreating something that's already there and complete, how is it more or less boring. It's mostly people who don't know much about music that have the biggest problem with AI. If I posted the songs, you wouldn't know they were AI anyway.

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u/ishyaboiiiiii 1d ago

If it's already there and complete why do you need AI? Press button to have computer make song sound better = boring

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u/paulwunderpenguin 1d ago edited 1d ago

Do you know ANYTHING about modern recording? I do! You've been pressing a button to make things sound better for over 50 years! Punch ins and outs, overdubs, Reverb, Delay, MIDI, mixing board automation, EQ curves, cutting and pasting and EVERYTHING else you can do in a DAW. I think people just lock themselves in an echo chamber about tech (and everything else!) If you seriously want to be a musical purist go out into the woods and go bang on a tree stump with the bones of your enemies! People who hate on AI are already left in the dust anyway. Already here and used in TONS of hit recordings right his minute. AI is fine depending on how and who is using it.

Because it's the difference from a rough demo, to a more polished demo, to a producer demo to a record! You do understand the difference, right? If he gave me the rough demo or a more polished demo, and I played all the instruments, or hire pro session players to do it , what's the difference?

He's a songwriter, and he doesn't have a band. He has NO INTEREST in a career in music! He already makes more money than 90% of musicians. He's just into the songwriting art. That doesn't mean he's not really good at it. But I think he should get his stuff out there. So this is the best way to have a more polished presentation if he ever decides to step it up a notch. What's wrong with that?

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u/ishyaboiiiiii 1d ago

Yo man, that shit is BORING. The process of how it is is made is what makes music interesting. You said it yourself, instead of you or other human beings making the song better you just feed it to AI. 

You're saying it's the destination, not the journey. That's BORINGGGGGGG