Mr. Amidon, who sets lyrics from traditional songs to his own alluring music, noted that folk songs often meshed dark lyrics with happy melodies.
UK garage was, on the surface, a shiny, happy, melodies-and-vocals kinda sound, all set to tough B-lines and crisp 2-step beats.
The Weeknd / Beauty Behind the Madness The songs seem to reference partying and addiction, but the swinging rhythms and happy melodies make us want to hear every line in these stories about late nights and hazy mornings.
I'm always stunned by the joy of klezmer music, that a group of people who have suffered as much as the Jews have can produce such happy melodies.
It has catchy choruses, pop melodies, happy melodies, usually teenage-tinged lyrics and was influenced by bands like Descendants, Green Day, Ramones, Screeching Weasel, The Offspring and Bad Religion.
What you hear in normal time as a happy Viennese melody lasting 5 or 10 seconds becomes minutes of slowly cascading overtones; a drumroll becomes a nightmarish avalanche.
The seventh-inning stretch songs merged with the traditional happy birthday melody as I brought out a cake in the shape of a baseball diamond bearing the Yankees logo in consecutive summers to the 8- and then 9-year-old birthday boy.
Alternately, a happy sounding melody would show that everything's parsing properly.
