>>18225307
Concern Trolling, popular music with negative lyrics always existed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZG5mBOHwoY

There's also some sampling bias going on because 1973 was the peak of bubblegum pop, and the later 70s was the peak of Disco, which skewed the survey results to more positive lyrics.

>>18225322
not even to mention that "negative" and "positive" are subjective and nebulous anyways, "fuck" can be negative but can also be positive and if you're a nigger that's bad but if you're a nigga that's good and if you're a cunt (American) that's bad but if you're a cunt (Australian) that's good and so on

>>18225307
Spooks

>>18225322
>popular music with negative lyrics always existed
no shit
maybe you should research, write, and publish a peer reviewed paper with that exciting insight, anon
make sure to read the study in the op before you go through all the trouble, though. it may save you some work
retard

Probably exaggerated or maybe the Lord from whom these people are trying to source inspiration from, or rather milk it from him, are not appealing to him at all so the music just gets progressively more aggressive.

>>18225307
Obviously more genres of dark music have been invented since then. By 1973 Black Sabbath was basically the only popular band that consistently sang about dark themes.