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Originally Posted by grindy
It's not always the case, but I think it's an additional factor in this case, which weakens your 'inherently sad sound' reasoning.
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Yeah I agree, I'm sure there are magnitudes more minor key songs that would be perceived as sad sounding by most than there are happy sounding ones.
My dilemma right now is that if I'm going to claim that we've evolved to perceive some sounds as inherently dangerous or aggressive, then we must be able to perceive some other sounds as inherently sad or depressing, but I'm having a much harder time identifying that sort of sound.
It's much easier to come up with examples using predators and prey in the wild, but it's not as easy when you're talking about sadness because it's not as easy to talk about mammals other than humans being sad period, making them more difficult to shoehorn into an argument.