Emmett J Scanlan walking appreciation

" It's hard to say. You might just argue that I'm a melancholy sort of guy! But it's probably not quite that simple. The songs I like tend to be sad ones, so I've probably just grown up thinking that's what a good pop songs should be. I remember Thom Yorke saying that our generation was part of a "culture of complaint", which I think is true generally. I suspect it may be something to do with the fact in the UK that we haven't been blighted by world wars and serious hardship for the last 60 years or so - so there's not so much of a genuine need to keep the spirits up and distract people from everyday misery and fear like there was for people in the first half of the 20th century, and indeed people dealing with the fallout from WW2. It's a theory, anyway…! On a personal level, I just find those sorts of songs more interesting. I think sadness tends to be more complex than happiness." 

Darren Criss in the Philippines

Go the Distance & Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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why are all the coolest people from the Philippines?