Jim,

Everytime you say things like that is why I have to pretty much discount most of what you say. You are so far removed from where country is you really have no idea what you are talking about. You constantly say things like that that are simply nonsense.
But I can forgive you since you are quite a long ways away.
I guess I can report what I know on British politics with about as much authority.

The things I am speaking of as usual, you take them in a very far position from where I intend them. If you read what I say, which you never do, is that songs with even a somber message generally have a more uplifting melody or a "rope of hope" which twists the story in a direction you didn't see coming. Which is a challenge of songwriting which is why the majority of the songwriting world end up coming to Nashville.

You can write all the depressing songs you want to. You would be in a very large group of people. About 90% of songs that are written by writers are sad, and depressing. They write from a position of pain, due to a continuous rejection they experience in life.

It is the general public that tends to reject these. They don't have to listen to songs to get a depressing message, it is all around them. It is an overstatement of the obvious.

But again, being as far away from the source as you are, you can be forgiven for your non understanding of that.

MAB